maybe it's just a lot easier to feel sad for Forest Whittaker than it is for Johnny Depp
― gabbneb, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Well I don't think you are really supposed to feel sad for Johnny Depp.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:15 (sixteen years ago) link
The indie/artsy/outsider voice wanted to vote for Down By Law or Stranger Than Paradise. But the viewer in me won out and voted Mystery Train. Mainly because of it's repeatability. Screamin Jay Hawkins & Cinque Lee? Absolutely classic. &fwiw, Permanent Vacation was bad. Bad, bad.
― Bobbi Peru, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:36 (sixteen years ago) link
no I suppose not, but for what he represents I meant
― gabbneb, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link
that Gary Farmer is so good-natured and has such funny sayings and no wonky eye
― gabbneb, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:55 (sixteen years ago) link
learn to read better
*takes a reading course*
what you said is still retarded
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:04 (sixteen years ago) link
i guess calling me names is a way to get me to pay attention to you. which, you know, i would never do otherwise.
― gabbneb, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:11 (sixteen years ago) link
*takes a caring course*
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm gonna see the golden compass tonight
― omar little, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i know nothing about it!
something about bears, nicole kidman looking bitchy, and daniel craig ftw in the end probably
― omar little, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link
nicole kidman in looking bitchy shock
she cant even help it anymore
ALL OTM
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Mystery Train - for Screamin' Jay, the Carl Perkins dialogue, Natchez = Matches, that fucking awesome pan shot of the Italian women in the airport with the airplane taking off behind her, and of course, "lost in space".
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/9940/18830783gl1.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 13 December 2007 03:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Steve Buscemi is the only actor in that truck cab who's still alive.
Or, as gabbnebb might say: they are all alive except the one on the right and the one on the left.
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 December 2007 07:27 (sixteen years ago) link
alex's ranking is otm on all counts.
― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 13 December 2007 07:40 (sixteen years ago) link
although ok maybe i'd bump stranger than paradise up to 2nd place. i love that movie unconditionally.
love him for his movies, and also for carving out the career he's had. i'm not really sure how he's done it, since i don't think he's ever made much money for himself or anyone else. although maybe not caring a whole lot about that is a necessary ingredient. (also probably doesn't hurt to be the coolest guy in the room, which he probably often is.)
― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 13 December 2007 07:49 (sixteen years ago) link
1) dead man 2) stranger than fiction 2) down by law 2) mystery train 5) the rest 6) except for the ones i haven't seen (permanent vacation, year of the horse)
― remy bean, Thursday, 13 December 2007 07:56 (sixteen years ago) link
dead man is like one of my top movies of ... uh ... ever?
Dead Man is amazing from beginning to end, and back round again.
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 13 December 2007 08:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I do have a weak spot for Ghost Dog, I admit
― warmsherry, Thursday, 13 December 2007 08:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i haven't seen year of the horse, but the neil young score (if you can call it that) to dead man is one of my favorite soundtracks.
― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 13 December 2007 08:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm with remy, noodle and tipsy. one of my all-time favourites.
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 13 December 2007 09:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Strangerthan Paradise by a ocuntry mile.
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 13 December 2007 09:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Monday, 17 December 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
xxxpost: I love Dead Man except for the soundtrack (and I am a Neil Young fan). It's really lazy and boring. I mean, compare it to Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas.
― spectra, Monday, 17 December 2007 03:10 (sixteen years ago) link
really? that's interesting, because i was never a neil young fan till i saw dead man. but ry cooder's st for paris, texas is fucking awesome.
― Rubyredd, Monday, 17 December 2007 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Everything about Dead Man sets it apart. The entertaining ugly violence, the score, his best-looking black & white film and his best cast: Depp, Robert Mitchum, Gabriel Byrne, John Hurt, Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover, Alfred Molina, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bishop.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Monday, 17 December 2007 05:12 (sixteen years ago) link
dead man is like one of my top movies of ... uh ... ever?-- remy bean, Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:56 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link
-- remy bean, Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:56 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link
― strgn, Monday, 17 December 2007 08:06 (sixteen years ago) link
that soundtrack
― strgn, Monday, 17 December 2007 08:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't get 'dead man'. it's going great guns until he meets the indian guy then it's zzzzzzzzzzz all the way, though the end is nice.
― banriquit, Saturday, 21 June 2008 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
wow me and alex in sf have the same jarmusch preferences
― jhøshea, Saturday, 21 June 2008 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
if you would like more entertainment from your tragedies, i would refer you instead to the film 'ghost dog', which has gunshots
― gabbneb, Saturday, 21 June 2008 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link
i guess dead man has those too. but it's in black and white. also, ghost dog has, like, dope beats and stuff.
― gabbneb, Saturday, 21 June 2008 13:23 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah 'ghost dog' is the freshness.
but with 'dead man', you get the feeling the mystical shit is for real.
― banriquit, Saturday, 21 June 2008 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, all those people did die
― gabbneb, Saturday, 21 June 2008 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.ica.org.uk/Jarmusch%20in%20Context+22863.twl
this looks rad, londoners. chance to see the cameraman, they live by night, l'atalante and branded to kill.
― rap band (schlump), Sunday, 29 November 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Wonder if I voted in this. Would've been Ghost Dog, probably.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
if night on earth had a few votes in favour of how much fun it is, the results would be pretty much otm.
― rap band (schlump), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't get dead man either. what was the point?
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Sunday, 11 July 2010 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/acid-western/Content?oid=890861
― the most horrifying moment in shallow grave (abanana), Sunday, 11 July 2010 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
still don't get it
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Sunday, 11 July 2010 06:23 (thirteen years ago) link
good read! i like Dead Man, but i haven't seen it years. review will probably prompt a re-watch in the near future.
xpost
― circa1916, Sunday, 11 July 2010 06:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Add me to the list of those who didn't get Dead Man when it first came out--I remember drifting and fidgeting through the whole thing--but liked it a lot better tonight. (Saw it right after Imitation of Life...I won't pretend it was a double-bill--two separate theatres.) I wish Iggy Pop's bit of silliness weren't there--he's a needless distraction--and the series of fade-outs right at the start seemed excessive. But the violence and the overall mood registered this time, and there were a number of really beautiful shots. Liked the music fine. I'll have to mull over all the William Blake and millennial undercurrents, but they're evocative.
http://www.salon.com/1999/12/02/deadman/
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 04:20 (eleven years ago) link
I love Dead Man but haven't seen it for years. My first viewing was with a friend who didn't really know anything about Jarmusch, and when we came out he said, "That was like a European movie about America." Which I think makes sense in ways he didn't even mean.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
And I didn't know Marcus was a fan of My Twentieth Century. There's a movie that deserves its own thread, if there was any way to actually see the thing any more.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 04:40 (eleven years ago) link
I remember being surprised when it showed up fairly high on decade-end polls, somewhere in the 10-20 range on a couple that I remember--it didn't seem to get a lot of attention on release. I can understand that better now; it does capture something. (Never heard of My Twentieth Century.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
Elmes' cinematography in Paterson was also great
― Dan S, Thursday, 14 November 2019 01:15 (four years ago) link
There were a couple Paterson jokes in TDDD! Even if the execution fell flat, it's pretty clear Jarmusch felt like doing a film of lazy riffing after doing a "serious" movie
― mh, Thursday, 14 November 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
So wait theres not actually a ghost dog here or what
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
Am I the only person who was disappointed that Ghost Dog used a gun and not a samurai sword?
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link
Several aging mafiosos also id say
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:51 (three years ago) link
Just watched Only Lovers...I enjoyed it well enough. It may grow on me in the next few days as I think about it. There's a cue in the score after Marlowe's death that I'd swear is a variation on the Stooges' "No Fun."
― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Monday, 4 October 2021 01:46 (two years ago) link
on Criterion?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 October 2021 01:49 (two years ago) link
Yeah, there's a new Jarmusch bundle with new arrivals OLLA and Coffee & Cigarettes, and Ghost Dog and Dead Man back for short engagements, plus the permanent library stuff.
― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Monday, 4 October 2021 01:52 (two years ago) link
In the last week i rewatched Mystery Train and Dead Man, partly out of curiosity because I hadn’t seen either in forever but loved them when they came out. I have to say Mystery Train didn’t really hold my attention. Maybe it’s a victim of its own influence, but the hipster riffs and in particular all the Elvis references felt a little rote. I did love the depiction of Memphis itself, and I didn’t dislike the film but it felt kind of pat.
Dead Man still rules, though. Just gorgeous, for one thing, and I think it’s grounded enough to carry all of its pretentions. The relationship between Blake and Nobody remains one of my favorite “buddy film” pairings.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 31 October 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
I had the same reactions to both flicks, tipsy.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 October 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link