It's a sad and beautiful world: the Jim Jarmusch poll.

It is called Only Lovers Left Alive. Yeah, I'd like to see it again actually. Went in with very little expectations and a slight buzz and ended up really syncing with the mood and pace of the thing.

I also liked Limits of Control more than most, but I get the dislike.

including Ghost Dog

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, May 24, 2016 3:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^looking for a suit and tie rap

I went in expecting not to like it and was pleasantly surprised.

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 20:58 (Yesterday) Permalink

this! it was good, a few on-the-noise jack white references aside.

vampire one was definitely the best of these later films, but it wasn't exactly great

― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, May 24, 2016 4:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this, if you deem the later films to begin with coffee and cigarettes, as i do

seeing this tonight at NYFF after all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8pGJBgiiDU

The trailer for Gimme Danger went up on youtube last week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Po8nz1eEsU

ban talking heads in music docs imo

Paterson among JJ's best imho!

whoa

keep in mind I only really like Down by Law and a couple others.

some nice NJ cultural shoutouts, not jus William Carlos Williams.

i'll probably dig it anyway but that's a solid recommendation imo

Variety's hook for a JJ interview is, of course, he's never seen some space epic

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/jim-jarmusch-on-boycotting-star-wars-bringing-paterson-to-cannes-1201776665/

Fred Elmes in brilliant form with the images btw. Critical roundup:

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-nyff-2016-jim-jarmuschs-paterson

Looking forward to this. I've enjoyed a lot of Jarmusch films, though Stranger Than Paradise has always been my pick. The way the above describes Paterson, it seems similar to how I'd describe STP.

For the French readers: there's a huge career spanning interview with some new Nan Goldin portrait shots in this month's Cahiers.

Also looking forward to seeing what he did with my hometown in "Paterson".

better use of falls / Lou Costello statue than The Sopranos

my fave Jarmusch are Down by Law + Dead Man but most of his stuff is at least enjoyable. Only a couple are outright bad. So I'm looking forward to this.

I'll pass on Paterson; I can't stand Adam Driver. His only redeeming quality is that he's not Michael Cera.

The Stooges documentary could be interesting - I mean, Fun House is probably the greatest rock album of all time - but I'm worried because both the Asheton brothers are dead, which leaves the story in Iggy's hands, and he was referring to the Stooges as "my band" as far back as the '70s.

Driver definitively illustrates that he is not the Girls schmuck in this.

I've never seen Girls.

what did you hate him in? that last Baumbach film was not good.

I'm sorry to have to let you know his highest-profile role is in Star Wars

well i was assuming perhaps naively that people would judge him on an acting appearance.

btw history sez they are Iggy's band, deal with it

Paterson is really wonderful.

Stooges doc was surprisingly shoddily made. Parts with Iggy talking were good but the whole design and editing of the movie was very much cheap VH1 rockumentary.

talking heads format in the trailer put me off

“For some time now, Jim Jarmusch has been operating as an autocritical dialectician in his fictional features,” writes Jonathan Rosenbaum for the new issue of Trafic. “Politically as well as commercially, The Limits of Control [2009] offers a sharp rebuke to his preceding film, Broken Flowers [2005],” and he elaborates. “But even more striking is the radical contrast between Jarmusch’s most elitist feature (and in many ways my least favorite), Only Lovers Left Alive [2013] . . . and Jarmusch’s most populist feature (and one of my favorites), Paterson [2016].”

https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2017/06/jarmsuchs-lost-america-the-pleasures-of-paterson/

spoilers within

from Film Comment:

Jim Jarmusch is filming The Dead Don’t Die, a “zombie comedy,” in upstate New York, with a cohort of actors both familiar in the director’s oeuvre (Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi) and new (Selena Gomez). Just don’t call it a zom-com, please.

Sounds great

I should get around to Patterson i suppose

Eh

you're eh

I’m usually slow to getting around to his latest releases but rally the only one that I didn’t like at all was that assassin one.

(Not Ghost Dog, the other one)

Only Lovers Left Alive? was he an assassin in that or just a stoned vampire

The Limits of Control, right? v forgettable

Yes that one

Vampire one was great

paterson was really nice, i'm still mad about how shitty the stooges documentary was though

I was sure Paterson was gonna suck (I hate Adam Driver) but it was really good. I know I saw The Limits of Control but I have absolutely no memory of it. Only Lovers Left Alive was better than it should have been. I'm not going anywhere near this zombie thing, though.

^^ co-sign

Paterson is Jarmusch's best film, imo.

His last two are.

I really loved Stranger Than Paradise and Down By Law (and Broken Flowers to some extent), but I think I agree the last two are the best

I've liked a couple of the recent films, but I don't think they're anywhere near as good as Stranger Than Paradise.

will have to see it again, it's been forever

eff off with the zombie crap.

that was addressed to the world.

xp I remember at the time an older artist friend, an idol of mine, thought that Stranger Than Paradise might have been just about the best movie of all time