Joe Reifer - Words (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The infamous fur trapper scene from Deadman, with Iggy Pop and Billy Bob Thornton. A friend alerted me to this fascinating interview with Rudy Wurlitzer in Arthur Magazine where Wurlitzer and director Alex Cox reveal that Jim Jarmusch took many of the ideas for his 1995 film Deadman from a Wurlitzer script. The rest of the [...]
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Recently down in Memphis I stopped in at the fabulous Arcade Restaurant , an always tantalizing spot known as the oldest still operating restaurant in the city. Many films have shot scenes there, including Jim Jarmusch's stunning Mystery Train and the equally enthralling 21 Grams . The particular booth we sat at on this visit had a pic of Rachel Weisz hanging above it, and I was reminded I had yet...
The Australian (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
THE Rudd Government so far has been a bit like one of those Jim Jarmusch films: a half-dozen plot lines and no clear idea where any of them is going to end. Every policy story starts well, then just when it gets you in and you turn the page in anticipation, it says "to be continued".
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Documentary looking back at New York's 'downtown scene' of the late 1970s, which spawned the likes of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. Rating:2
Pop Candy (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Back in the early '90s, there was this great TV show called Fishing with John. It starred John Lurie, an actor and musician who has appeared in a bunch of Jim Jarmusch films. The premise was simple: Lurie, an avid...
notcoming.com | Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Jim Jarmusch wrote his 1980 debut, in a sense, in a European syntax, and shot it in a European style. It lacks both the narrative structure and Hollywood genre trappings of his later films; consequently, American viewers not already versed in Jarmusch’s influences might overlook the film’s hypnotic beauties and simply dismiss it as weird. Many already have—while Vacation won the grand prize at a German...
Card Chronicle (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
There is a part of me - the same one which can't understand the attraction of expensive cars and tolerates the pace of Jim Jarmusch films - that loathes the Internet. On multiple occasions, people outside of my mom have described me as "fun," but that doesn't mean I'm not in the marker for some serious, semi-intelligent banter every now and again. When I go in search of it online, I generally end...
DIY Filmmaker Sujewa (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
At Limited Control , a new site created by a Jim Jarmusch fan, there is a links & YouTube clips filled post about Jarmusch's early 80's band The Del-Byzanteens; check it out . - Sujewa
DIY Filmmaker Sujewa (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Long before I got into writing about indie film I read Anthony Kaufman 's interview with Jim Jarmusch (it can be found in this book I believe) & many other articles written by him (Anthony is also the editor of this book of Steven Soderbergh interviews). And, a lot of the bloggers profiled in the doc are relatively new to this thing that we do (2-3 years being the longest most bloggers have been at...
Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
It's pointless trying to second guess Bill Murray - just when you've got him pegged as crazy old joker he'll turn up in a Jim Jarmusch movie. Then, just when you've decided that Bill Murray is an indie wunderkid he'll go and do Garfield 2: A Tale Of Two Kitties. Then, right when Bill Murray is being accused by his ex-wife of being a violent drunken drug addict, he goes and leaps out of plane to raise...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Del-Byzanteens was a No Wave band in the early 1980s whose line-up included film director/keyboardist Jim Jarmusch on keyboards. Actor/musician John Lurie sometimes played with them too and writer Luc Sante penned some of their lyrics. BB pal Vann Hall found not one, but two videos on YouTube of Del-Byzanteens covering The Supremes' "My World Is Empty Without You." John Lurie is featured in two of...
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, and John Lurie, in a scene from Jim Jarmusch's 1986 film Down by Law.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (Sony, $19.98) Julien Temple's acclaimed documentary looks at the impact of the Clash's pioneering punk rocker and activist through archival footage and contemporary interviews with the likes of Jim Jarmusch...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
It seems unreal that the musicians on the magical Ethiopiques records are about to step onstage. Brought to the mainstream by the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, and a compilation that was last year's best album, Francis Falceto's ongoing archive series unveiled a lost world: the swinging Addis Ababa that bloomed in Emperor Haile Selassie's last years, before the 1974 Mengistu dictatorship...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
We've got John Lurie , Richard Edson (you may know him best as the Zappa-esque "Evil Valet Parker" in Ferris Bueller's Day Off ), and Ezter Balint in a 1965 Dodge Coronet sedan with Screamin' Jay Hawkins on the tape deck. Yes, it's Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise , which has some seriously Jalop-worthy road-trip sequences and comes to us courtesy of this YouTuber.
