Jim Jarmusch

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“I have no desire to make films for any kind of specific audience,” the independent and uncompromising American filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has declared. “What I want to do is make films that . . . tell stories, but somehow in an new way, not in a predictable form, not in the usual manipulative way that films seem to on their audiences.” In 1984 Jarmusch emerged from the downtown New York art scene with Stranger Than Paradise, a picaresque film, made in black-and-white on a shoestring budget, that won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and he followed up two years later with another picaresque fable, the critically acclaimed Down by Law. In 1989 Jarmusch rounded off his first cinematic trilogy with the release of Mystery Train, a film that prompted Vincent Canby of the New York Times to call him the “most adventurous and arresting filmmaker to surface in the American cinema in this decade.” Jarmusch has explained that he looks at the United States “through a foreigner’s eyes” and that his ambition is to create a new cinematic language shaped by his two major influences: the world cinema of Europe and Japan, and Hollywood. “I’m interested in finding a bridge between these,” he has said. I’d like to embrace both sides without negating one or the other.”

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la vida no vale nada

January 2012
LOVES-DESIRE

Happy Holidays to everyone and have a fantastic New Year (2012)

December 2011
Randal_

it's a sad and beautiful world [1]

February 2011
DyingDub

"My mama used to say that America's the big melting pot. You bring it to a boil and all the scum rises to the top."

November 2010
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i'm nobody

October 2010
Hippiemans

A director who makes movies with a meaning.

June 2010
Marquis-manson

ill scream for Ya...

March 2010
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С Днём рождения, Джимми!

January 2010
somnambule-

I just have to join!!

December 2009
Cl_Cl_

SunnO))) has to be connected to this group now

December 2009
Konkapa

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November 2009
atommalac

The Limits of Control is amazing. Earth and Boris need to be added to the artist connections.

November 2009
WhichOneIsPink

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream ! :D

November 2009
SylviaVivaldi

i love the film "permanent vacation" and i feel like, confused cause i've never heard any positive reaction of anyone i know after watching that film. well i just don't get it. this film is important for me. but well other jim's films are beautiful too

November 2009
macijikralj

it's a sad and beautiful world

November 2009
anna-luka

Jamrusch!! <3

October 2009
ToastPsycho

yes

September 2009
RaduBuendia

no

September 2009
dogofsorrow

Does anyone other than me see the similarity between him and Eraserhead?

September 2009
_KevMusic_

I obviously need to actually start getting into film.

August 2009