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Now here is a movie that's practically perfect for DVD. Shot over many years with eccentric actors, Jim Jarmusch's collection of black-and-white vignettes is as uneven as a collection of music videos (without songs). Even with the dull spots and the drop-dead-hip ambiance, there's something touching about this parade of frazzled people holding on to their coffee and cigarettes like life rafts--especially in the final sequence with Taylor Mead. There are some severely misconceived pieces, but the best are a treat: Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan in a hilarious Hollywood encounter, Tom Waits and Iggy Pop getting off on the wrong foot in a funky diner, and Cate Blanchett doing a dual role as herself and a jealous cousin. Bill Murray can't save one underwritten piece, but Jack and Meg White are amusing in an absurdist blackout. Use the Scene Selection menu, and revel in the fetishizing of java and butts. --Robert Horton
If ever there was a film to polarize an audience this is it. Some will see it as unfathomable and boring, others will see it as an absolute gem. I'm with the latter group. Off the top the quality of the filming is superb. Wonderful rich black and white compositions filmed with quirky and off kilter crops. The cast is impressive Albert Molina, Cate Blanchett, Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Bill Murray to name just a few. Each performs an odd cameo piece in a stark documentary style. Everything feels ad-libbed with long awkward pauses and strange twists of conversations. One scene consists solely of a beautiful woman (Renee French) smoking a cigarette, reading a magazine and trying to stop the waiter from refilling her cup. It's almost 10 minutes long. Another scene has two Wiseguys swearing at each other as one tries to persuade the other to quite smoking. A lot of people will be squirming in their seats waiting for something to happen in this movie and it never does. Instead we are given the chance to eavesdrop on a series of social interactions which occur with a sense of reality and end as abruptly as they started. It really is a masterpiece, but not everyone will know it.
So boring!!!
If there were an award for the most boring film ever made, this might be a contender. Jarmusch's movies are generally odd, and usually only intermittently interesting. This movie is not particularly strange, just boring. The best Jarmusch movie I've seen is Dead Man with Johnny Depp. Dead Man is actually pretty good--eerie, but good. I suggest that viewers who would like to sample a Jarmusch film choose Dead Man, rather than this one.
very good
It's nice to see several films rolled into one. So it's different. So I am I, But I'm ok with that.
The real world "Gone With the Wind" & made for a few bucks. All about stuff in the heart that can't go anywhere. Willie & Eddie are the line & Eva is the light. And it's funny! Once again, let's savor Eddie's moment: This time, Eddie knows something that Willie doesn't. Willie & Eddie open a beer & Eddie gets his 15 seconds. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): John Lurie - Eszter Balint - Richard Edson Director(s): Jim Jarmusch DVD Release Date: Released the 05 September 2000 This item is currently not available.
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Elvis may not be alive, but his spirit continues to permeate the American cultural landscape. Jim Jarmusch pays tribute his legacy in his funky third feature, Mystery Train. The name comes from the great bluesy recording Elvis made for Sun Records in 1955, but the stories of wandering tourists and lost souls drifting through Memphis come from the mind of Jarmusch. Three different tales play out in a single 24-hour period, a loose trilogy spinning around a fleabag hotel manned by a sleepy Screamin' Jay Hawkins and his eager bellboy Cinqué Lee. A young Japanese couple arrives in Memphis to take the Elvis tour, an Italian woman (Nicoletta Braschi of Life Is Beautiful) takes possession of her dead husband's ashes and gets a surprise visit from a wandering spirit, and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Masatoshi Nagase - Youki Kudoh Director(s): Jim Jarmusch DVD Release Date: Released the 15 August 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This disappointment from Jim Jarmusch stars Johnny Depp in a mystery Western about a 19th-century accountant named William Blake, who spends his last coin getting to a hellish mud town in Texas and ends up penniless and doomstruck in the wilderness. A benevolent if goofy Native American (Gary Farmer) takes an interest in guiding Blake on a quest for identity in his earthly journey, but the film is really just a string of endless shtick about inbred woodsmen, dumb lawmen, and a trio of irritable killers. With Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne, Alfred Molina, and a noodling soundtrack by Neil Young. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Johnny Depp - Gary Farmer Director(s): Jim Jarmusch DVD Release Date: Released the 03 July 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This is a low-key gem that is at once about the power of dreams, the power of suggestion, and the tyranny of artistic vision (when there really isn't one to fight for). This disarming comedy by director Alexandre Rockwell was a hit at the Sundance Festival but barely registered commercially. Steve Buscemi stars as a hard-luck case: Adolpho, a wanna-be filmmaker with a phone-book-sized screenplay and no money. He lives in a hellish Lower East Side apartment and has a thing for his standoffish neighbor (Jennifer Beals). When he places a want ad to sell his script, he lands Joe (Seymour Cassell), a would-be investor who, it turns out, is really a con artist. Together, they go looking for money to make the movie. A dizzily funny and understated film in which Cassell gives the performance of... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Steve Buscemi - Seymour Cassel Director(s): Alexandre Rockwell DVD Release Date: Released the 27 July 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Screenwriters rarely develop a distinctive voice that can be recognized from movie to movie, but the ornate imagination of Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) has made him a unique and much-needed cinematic presence. In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a guy decides to have the memories of his ex-girlfriend erased after she's had him erased from her own memory--but midway through the procedure, he changes his mind and struggles to hang on to their experiences together. In other hands, the premise of memory-erasing would become a trashy science-fiction thriller; Kaufman, along with director Michel Gondry, spins this idea into a funny, sad, structurally complex, and simply enthralling love story that juggles morality, identity, and heartbreak with... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Michel Gondry DVD Release Date: Released the 28 September 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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