she cant even help it anymore
― omar little, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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
Stranger Than Paradise held up well for me. I saw it four or five times in the '80s, but not since then. I was very susceptible to its mood and its look at the time--it seemed like such an emphatic no to where American film was then headed. I was more mindful tonight of certain affectations--the blacking out especially--but I still think it has a kind of small-scale perfection, and probably lots of Reagan-era resonances (intended or not) too. A lot of lines came back to me immediately--when Aunt Lottie walked away in disgust as the three of them headed out for Florida, I said (in my best Hungarian accent) "Son of a bitch" a second before she did. Richard Edson's priceless, and I still have a crush on Eszter Balint. (There was a record store in Toronto in the '80s that had an Eszter lookalike working for them.) I didn't know then who Rammellzee was, so that was nice. Not sure if I'll get around to watching Permanent Vacation, which is included on a second disc.
― clemenza, Thursday, 18 July 2013 04:13 (ten years ago) link
Permanent Vacation is at least worth watching once. It's interesting to see what Brooklyn looked like a million years ago.
― Moodles, Thursday, 18 July 2013 04:48 (ten years ago) link
yeah you're off by nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred and sixty seven years.
― what a wonderful url (Matt P), Thursday, 18 July 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link
gabbneb was so unpleasant, glad he hasn't turned back up *knocks on wood*
― what a wonderful url (Matt P), Thursday, 18 July 2013 05:17 (ten years ago) link
otm.
i love 'stranger than paradise' a lot, and like-to-love everything else i've seen of his.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 18 July 2013 06:05 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_limp7oRAHp1qis5gbo1_500.jpg
Screamin' Jay is still my main man.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 July 2013 06:48 (ten years ago) link
― roxymuzak, Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:27 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol six years later..
― pplains, Thursday, 18 July 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
finally watched dead man - p much loved it
Another bounty hunter (Michael Wincott) sleeps with a teddy bear and muses at one point, "Ever wish you were the moon?" When Wilson happens upon the corpses of two marshals (named Lee and Marvin), he notes that the head of one of them "looks like a goddamn religious icon" and promptly crushes it like a cantaloupe under his heel--an image of astonishing, shocking beauty.
things u want to c&p over&over
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 20:24 (ten years ago) link
Bump because I saw Only Lovers Left Alive last night and feel the need to say something about it. It's gorgeous, but since I keep calling it "the hipster's Twilight," I feel guilty about liking it.
― #TweetFromAnUnknownWoman (j.lu), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
think jarmusch is p on point in prefixing all discussion of 'guilty pleasures' with 'there are no such things as guilty pleasures'saw this last night, too & was intermittently charmed - tilda dancing to the 45 was goosebumps - but also found it just kind of unintentionally loose like his last couple, in a way that kinda just poignantly emphasises the cohesion of his original experiments with this type of structure. strong in trad jarmusch mode (as a sorta mystery train reimagining), then generally less confident as a modern/digital film. it's nice to be in his head for a couple hours, though. jeffrey wright stealing the show.
― schlump, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
Local press went apeshit when it played the Miami Film Festival last month.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
there is a pink & blue embroidered bedsheet in it that will make you lose your mind
― schlump, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link