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Dec 30, 2016 · But of course, lifelong Elvis fanatic Jim Jarmusch holds a soft spot in his heart for Jailhouse Rock and other pictures about imprisoned heartthrobs. He filters that love through his own...
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- Permanent Vacation
- Gimme Danger
- Year of The Horse
- The Limits of Control
- Night on Earth
- Mystery Train
- Dead Man
- Stranger Than Paradise
- Down by Law
- Ghost Dog: Way of The Samurai
It's not that Jarmusch's first film, 1980's Permanent Vacation, is a bad film. It's just that Permanent Vacation is clearly the roughly-hewn first film of a director with a vision attempting to navigate the demands of shooting a feature-length film for the first time. Made on a shoestring budget of $12,000, coming in at 75 minutes, shot on 16mm, an...
Gimme Danger (2016) focuses on the rise and fall of 1960s punk band The Stooges. Jarmusch has always been a director with an interest in music, either incorporating musicians into his films, leaving his imprint on a soundtrack, or, in the case of Gimme Danger, taking a break from fictional storytelling to go into the truth of something that actuall...
A slightly better but still mostly boring documentary venture for Jarmusch was 1997's Year of the Horse. Jarmusch's documentation of Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 1996 tour comes complete with archival footage from the 1970s and 1980s, plus in-depth interviews with the band members. But where Jarmusch's attention to and appreciation for Young's musi...
Jarmusch is well into his 30-year career by the time he brings 2013's The Limits of Control to the masses. In the film, a solitary gun-for-hire waits in Madrid for further instructions on a job. The film is opaque in the most alienating way, switching from the man's time spent in cafes, drinking espresso, and toying with matchboxes, to moving about...
Throughout Jarmusch's career, he's long been a fan of the vignette structure and he's created a handful of films with this structure, allowing for big casts to come together in a variety of stories all bound by a common thread. 1991's Night on Earthbrings together Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, and Roberto Benigni (on...
Mystery Train (1989) begins Jarmusch's appreciation of the vignette-as-anthology format which has popped up across his career. However, where future installments in this format become sprawling, Jarmusch is laser-focused in Mystery Train, bringing together three stories all set in Memphis with characters bound by their tenancy in the same hotel and...
Dead Man (1995) is a notable moment in Jarmusch's career, serving as the first of many roles in a young Johnny Depp's career as well, wherein he tries to break the mold of late '80s teen heartthrob and plant himself inside odd, goth, contemplative characters. Dead Man follows Depp's William Blake, a mild-mannered accountant sent across the American...
Jarmusch's second film, 1984's Stranger Than Paradise, contains the seeds of what would become familiar narrative ground for the director: examining the culture clashes of the international with the American through potentially uncomfortable but often amusing circumstances. In Stranger Than Paradise, a New York hipster is unexpectedly visited by hi...
Starring Benigni, Tom Waits (another longtime Jarmusch collaborator), and John Lurie, Down By Law is another ode to Elvis Presley while also using Presley's film, Jailhouse Rock, as a kind of foundation for his own jailbreak movie. Benigni, Waits, and Lurie's characters are three criminals who manage to escape from the confines of their jail cells,...
Jarmusch admittedly treads back into the touchy territory of co-opting another non-white culture for a story not focused on that culture (see the aforementioned Dead Man for more). But Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai's depiction of a mafia hitman, Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker), who lives (and expects to die) by the ancient codes of samurai warriors nea...
- Broken Flowers (2005) One of the director’s most enjoyable mainstream successes, Broken Flowers also netted the Grand Prix of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, and re-teamed Jarmusch with his Coffee and Cigarettes co-star Bill Murray.
- Night on Earth (1991) An enjoyable omnibus, each story occurs in the evening, in taxis all over the world.
- Permanent Vacation (1980) The director’s debut feature and winner of the Josef von Sternberg Award at the 1980 Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival, Permanent Vacation is, though his most novice project, also in many ways Jarmusch’s quintessential film.
- The Dead Don’t Die (2019) At first glance it doesn’t seem to fit that ol’ Jim should mix and mingle with zombies, but really if you look hard at his considerable CV on this very list, his many genre diversions jump out and grab at you.
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James Robert Jarmusch (/ ˈ dʒ ɑːr m ə ʃ / JAR-məsh; born January 22, 1953) is an American film director and screenwriter. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing films such as Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken ...
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- January 22, 1953 (age 70), Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, U.S.
Jul 7, 2019 · When Jim Jarmusch was a boy, he knew to steer clear of the water because, while the town might be placid, the Cuyahoga river was toxic. Pickling acids had stained it bright orange. Pickling acids ...
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May 16, 2019 · He is a supreme editor (long ellipsis or dissolves) and can make beautiful films ( Dead Man, The Limits of Control) but it’s the repetition, structure, numbering and rhythm here that make up the essence of the case for Jarmusch. a stunner from Down by Law. Best film: Dead Man. Hypnotic masterpiece – Jarmusch’s greatest achievement.
Jailhouse Rock is a 1957 American musical drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Vaughn Taylor and Jennifer Holden. Adapted by Guy Trosper from a story written by Nedrick Young , the film tells the story of Vince Everett (Presley), a convict who learns the guitar while in prison and ...
