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| Jim
Jarmusch |
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| Director
/ Screenwriter / Producer / Editor / Composer |
| 1953 - |
| Born January 22,
Akron, Ohio, USA |
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Production Country: USA
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Key Genres:
Road Movie,
Comedy, Urban Comedy |
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Collaborators: Robby
Muller (Cinematographer), Jay Rabinowitz (Editor), Melody London
(Editor), John Lurie (Composer/Leading Player), Roberto Benigni (Leading
Character Player), Frederick Elmes (Cinematographer), Tom DiCillo
(Cinematographer), Tom Waits
(Composer/Character Player), Isaach De Bankole (Character Player), Jim Stark (Producer) |
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Recommended: Stranger
Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Night on
Earth (1991), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999),
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [ Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[ The
Jim Jarmusch Resource Page ] [ A
Jim Jarmusch Home Page ] [ The
Jim Jarmusch Home Page ] [ indieWIRE
Interview ] [ Guardian
Interview #1 ] [
An
Interview with Jim Jarmusch ] [ Guardian
Interview #2 ] [ Reverse
Shot Feature (2005) ] |
| Books: [
Jim
Jarmusch: Interviews ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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Greatest Films: Stranger
Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law
(1986), Dead Man
(1995) |
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films:
Broken Flowers (2005) |
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"Blighted
landscapes, both urban and rural, form the backcloths to his
stories, in which alienated protagonists stare glumly out of
the screen until their nemesis, or their destiny arrives.
Innovative but rarely entertaining, Jarmusch's films form
the back of beyond of American life: a slice of life, yes,
but one quite alien to ordinary people." - David
Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999) |
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"Jarmusch's
elliptical, dedramatised, episodic narrative style is
symptomatic of his restlessly experimental interest in the
method and structure of cinematic storytelling. Crucially,
however, this interest in formalism - which makes him
unlikely to ever join the Hollywood mainstream - is balanced
by subtle wit, the warmth he clearly feels for his
characters and a bemused, intelligent interest in the
unfamiliar backroads of American life, so that he remains
one of the most accessible, original and influential of that
country's independent film-makers." - Geoff
Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999) |
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"Jarmusch
has a rare feeling for urban desolation, for loneliness, and
the sweet, whimsical overlap of chance and companionship. It
is gentle, offbeat, and poignant - but does it make whole
films? And does it really make a marriage of Jarmusch's
leaning toward raw pop culture and SoHo modishness?"
- David
Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002) |
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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."
- Jim Jarmusch |
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