Young Blood May Hold Key to Reversing Aging

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21. Promo for the new Jim Jarmusch film?

With a little blood, we could all be as cool as Adam and Eve, and still be alive after 3000 years:

With their finely chiseled clavicles and cheekbones, their nocturnal habits and exquisite taste, Adam and Eve are about the coolest couple you could imagine. (They are played by Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, which definitely helps.) Adam lives in a vast apartment in the picturesque ruins of Detroit, surrounded by vinyl records and vintage guitars acquired by an eager young gofer named Ian (Anton Yelchin). Eve haunts the alleys of Tangier, speed-reading old books in every known language and lingering in an all-night cafe with Christopher Marlowe, who still regrets, five centuries after the fact, not receiving proper credit for Shakespeare’s plays.

It is part of the conceit of “Only Lovers Left Alive,” Jim Jarmusch’s latest slow-burn celebration of art, style and aimless conversation, that old Kit Marlowe (a marvelously grizzled John Hurt), one of the original literary outlaws, is alive and well, if a bit weary. Dwelling in a city associated with latter-day writer-renegades like William S. Burroughs and Paul Bowles, Marlowe is Eve’s confidant and mentor. He also supplies her with human blood, since both of them (and Adam too) are vampires.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/movies/only-lovers-left-alive-jarmuschs-vampire-malaise.html