griggs's - Jim Jarmusch Ranked List
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After the critical triumphs of Stranger Than Paradise and Down By Law, director Jim Jarmusch was heralded as one of the most arresting filmmaker to surface in the American cinema. Mystery train is a smart and curiously affecting comedy, that is funny and thoroughly satisfying! Named after the Elvis Presley hit, 'Mystery Train'interweaves three engrossing stories, all centering around the Elvis Presley legend and his beloved hometown of Memphis. As the characters' path collide - through laughter, fear and fate - you can practically feel the presence of the King himself in every scene...and his legacy impressed on a generation of equally lost souls in this wry, brilliantly structured comedy. - Director:
- Jim Jarmusch
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- Masatoshi Nagase, Youki Kudoh, Screamin' Jay Hawkins
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Jim Jarmusch's deadpan comedy spans characters, cities and time zones, each taking place in the enclosed space of a cab on one single night. Beginning in LA just as the sunset descends into darkness, moving through New York, Paris, Rome and finally Helsinki where the sun rises once again, each vignette focuses on the brief relationship that develops between driver and passenger(s) as they travel through the night. - Director:
- Jim Jarmusch
- Cast:
- Winona Ryder, Eija Vilpas, Donatella Servadio
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'Dead Man' is a story of a young man's journey both psychically and spiritually into the extreme Western frontiers of America sometime in the second half of the 19th Century. William Blake is lost and badly wounded, when he encounters very odd, outcast native American named "Nobody", who believes Blake is actually dead English poet of the same name. Both comical and violent, Blake has been thrown into chaotic world as though he has passed though a surface of mirrors and emerges into a previously unknown world that exists on the other side. - Director:
- Jim Jarmusch
- Cast:
- Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover
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Willie (John Lurie), a Hungarian emigre living in New York City, is disgruntled by the arrival of his sixteen-year-old cousin Eva (Eszter Balint). Along with his pal Eddie (Richard Edson), they take a journey through the American landscape, never really settling on a direction.
- Director:
- Jim Jarmusch
- Cast:
- John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson
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Three ill-fated men - a small-time pimp Jack (John Lurie) an unemployed DJ Zack (Tom Waits) and a strong-willed Italian tourist (Roberto Benigni) - meet in the confined space of New Orleans prison cell. Undeterred by Jack and Zack's evident disdain, Roberto shares with them his improbable plans of escape, thrusting them into an adventure through the Louisiana bayous. - Director:
- Jim Jarmusch
- Cast:
- Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni
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From cult director Jim Jarmusch and with an all-star cast including Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, and John Hurt, 'Only Lovers Left Alive' is a film about music, love, and the transience of human culture. Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, Hiddleston plays Adam, an underground musician who is reunited with his enigmatic lover Eve (Swinton). Their love story has endured several centuries, but their idyll is soon disrupted by Eve's wild younger sister (Wasikowska). Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them? - Director:
- Jim Jarmusch
- Cast:
- Tilda Swinton, Loïc Corbery, Catherine Wilkening
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In the sublime new film from Jim Jarmusch, Adam Driver gives a career-best performance as Paterson, a bus driver in the New Jersey city of the same name. He's also a poet, recording his daily observations and thoughts into a notebook. Paterson thrives on routine: he drives his bus route, he goes home for dinner with his wife Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), he walks his dog, he visits his local bar for one beer. By contrast Laura's world is ever-changing, with new projects and ideas striking her daily. The film quietly observes the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details. - Director:
- Jim Jarmusch
- Cast:
- Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Nellie
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Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) lives above the world, alongside a flock of birds, in a homemade shack on the roof of an abandoned building. Guided by the words of an ancient Samurai text, Ghost Dog is a professional killer able to dissolve into the night and move throughout the city unnoticed. When Ghost Dog's code is dangerously betrayed by the dysfunctional mafia family that occasionally employs him, he must find a way to defend himself without breaking the code of the samurai. - Director:
- Jim Jarmusch
- Cast:
- Forest Whitaker, Harry Shearer, Henry Silva
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In the sleepy small town of Centerville, something is not quite right. The moon hangs large and low in the sky, the hours of daylight are becoming unpredictable and animals are beginning to exhibit unusual behaviour. No one foresees the strangest and most dangerous repercussion that will soon start plaguing the town: The Dead Don't Die - they rise from their graves and savagely attack and feast on the living - and the citizens must battle for their survival. - Director:
- Jim Jarmusch
- Cast:
- Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tom Waits
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A comic series of short vignettes built on one another to create a cumulative effect, as the characters discuss things as diverse as caffeine popsicles, Paris in the '20s, and the use of nicotine as an insecticide-all the while sitting around sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes. As director Jim Jarmusch delves into the normal pace of our world from an extraordinary angle, he shows just how absorbing the obsessions, joys and addictions of life can be, if truly observed. - Director:
- Jim Jarmusch
- Cast:
- Bill Murray, Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni
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