Jim Jarmusch

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Jim Jarmusch

#1 Post by DarkImbecile » Wed Jun 13, 2018 4:44 pm

Jim Jarmusch (1953 - )

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"I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are."

Filmography

Features
Permanent Vacation (1981)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Down by Law (1986)
Mystery Train (1989)
Night on Earth (1991)
Dead Man (1995)
Year of the Horse [documentary] (1997)
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (1999)
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
Broken Flowers (2005)
The Limits of Control (2009)
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Gimme Danger [documentary] (2016)
Paterson (2016)
The Dead Don’t Die (2019)

Shorts/Music Videos/TV
Talking Heads - "The Lady Don't Mind" (1986)
"Coffee and Cigarettes" (1986)
Big Audio Dynamite - "Sightsee M.C!" (1987)
"Coffee and Cigarettes II" (1989)
Tom Waits - "It's All Right With Me" (1990)
Tom Waits - "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" (1992)
Neil Young - "Dead Man Theme" (1995)
"Int. Trailer Night" [Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet segment]
The Raconteurs - "Steady as She Goes" (2006)

Books/Poetry
Jim Jarmusch by Rolf Aurich and Stefan Reinecke (2001)
Jim Jarmusch: Interviews by Ludvig Hertzberg (2001)
Jim Jarmusch by Juan Antonio Suarez (2007)
The Jarmusch Way: Spirituality and Imagination in Dead Man, Ghost Dog, and The Limits of Control by Julian Rice (2012)
Jim Jarmusch: Music, Words and Noise by Sara Piazza (2015)
"Verdict with Guitar" by Jim Jarmusch (2015)

Web Resources
1985 interview with Harlan Jacobson, Film Comment
1999 interview with The Guardian, including audio clips (Part 1)
1999 interview with The Guardian, including audio clips (Part 2)
1999 interview with The Guardian, including audio clips (Part 3)
1999 interview with The Guardian, including audio clips (Part 4)
2009 interview with Gavin Smith, Film Comment
2016 interview with Kevin EG Perry, The Guardian
2016 interview with Amy Taubin, Film Comment
2019 interview with Bilge Ebiri, Vulture

Forum Discussion
400-401 Stranger Than Paradise and Night on Earth
166 Down by Law
521 Mystery Train
919 Dead Man
Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch, 2005)
The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, 2016)
The Dead Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch, 2019)



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Re: Jim Jarmusch

#4 Post by Shanzam » Thu Feb 17, 2022 4:12 pm

Only lovers left alive always goes in my "very realistic (in details and world-building) portrayal of mythology, folkore and legends" mental list, it's not easy (for me) to a find a lot of movies like that. Abbasi's Border as well. Night on Earth has great dialogues. Tom Waits seems like a musical counter-part to Jarmusch's style and mindset, can't recall which of the two did I discover and like first. Sacred Bones Records and SQÜRL also come to mind. As for Down by Law, I once had an exam with printed screenshots of DbL, and I was supposed to write a dramatic situation and make sense of it in an hour or so. I had one million ideas after the exam, and not much during it, so DbL's not my favorite movie of Jarmusch's.

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Re: Jim Jarmusch

#5 Post by therewillbeblus » Thu Feb 17, 2022 4:16 pm

SQÜRL is Jarmusch's band, so that makes sense

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Re: Jim Jarmusch

#6 Post by Shanzam » Thu Feb 17, 2022 4:27 pm

I'm at least partially on-topic. :)


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