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Jarmusch Cribs From Tilda’s State of Cinema

Karina Longworth
By Karina Longworth posted 10 months ago
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Tilda Swinton doesn’t have a co-writing credit on Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control (which triumphed over dismissive reviews to top the speciality box office over the weekend), but maybe she should. According to an interview with the actress in Movieline, Jarmusch cribbed one of the film’s most memorable (and self-reflexive) monologues, in which Swinton muses that “Movies are like dreams you’re never really sure you’ve had; sometimes my favorite films are the ones where people sit there and don’t say anything,” from a State of Cinema speech Swinton gave at the San Francisco Film Festival in 2006. That speech, which was structured as a letter to Swinton’s young son, after he wondered “what people’s dreams were like before the cinema was invented”, is online at SF360.