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

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

(xpost) I saw it five years ago (checked back in the last-x thread; can we start a new one? it's an ordeal checking 5,000+ posts) and thought it held up very well. I don't know if I can think of another film with a better control of deadpan.

Stranger Than Paradise is definitely his best film - I've never seen anything else like it - and Down By Law is right up there.

Kinda broad, but hey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs5ZOcU6Bnw

Came to post that too...Some good deadpan in there, but it'd have to be really, really funny, I would think, to justify an idea that's been done to death.

(And if not that, have the greatest soundtrack ever.)

man, Stranger Than Paradise blows. Permanent Vacation is better in every way: compelling lead, interesting score, more variety in the vignettes, beautiful no budget cinematography. STP... Lurie is fine, the girl is good, but Edson is annoying as fuck. fedoras and no style, whereas the kid in PV has so much more range and does a lot more with nothing. anyone know if the final shot is an explicit reference to News From Home or was that ferry shot fairly common?

Love Stranger Than Paradise--when it came out, 10 times since, and again when I watched it last year. I can't think of another film that sustains deadpan humour so perfectly for 90 minutes.

Which is exactly what I said six posts ago last year...I need new words.

I watched Permanent Vacation and Stranger Than Paradise this past week with flappy bird’s comments in mind, but I thought Stranger Than Paradise was so great, that it was much better realized in its look at alienation, manners and fashion than the first film

it was meandering but ultimately meaningful I thought. I loved that the two leads were such doppelgängers. aunt Lotte stole the show in the middle third.

I also like that it was shot in flattened shades of gray, that each scene was basically static and was comprised of a single shot, that each scene was separated by a blackout that felt like a power outage, correlating with the expressionless quality of the whole story.