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Jim Jarmusch
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Lounge lizard musician John Lurie stars as Willie, a disenchanted New Yorker, who along with his best friend Eddie (Richard Edson) and cousin Eva (Eszter Balint) decides it's time to leave behind their boring lives in search of paradise. But as their unforgettable road trip to Florida unfolds, they find that amidst the sunshine, blue skies and palm trees, their pursuit of happiness is constantly road-blocked by the very thing they can't run away from...themselves....
3) Down by law
Series
Criterion collection volume 166
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for a crime they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
A struggling Siberian rock band leaves the lonely tundra to tour the U.S. because as they're told, "they'll buy anything" there. Aki Kaurismäki's winningly aloof farce follows the musicians as they bravely make their way across the New World, carrying a bandmate (and some beer) in a coffin and sporting hairdos that resemble unicorn horns.
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Confirmed bachelor Don has just been dumped by his latest lover, Sherry. Don begins to resign himself to being alone and left to his own devices. However, he becomes compelled to reflect on his past when he receives a mysterious pink letter by mail. It is from an anonymous former lover and informs him that he has a 19-year-old son who may be looking for his father. Don is urged to investigate the contents of the letter by his closest friend and neighbor,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 42
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
The fact that John Lurie knows nothing about fishing doesn't stop him from taking his celebrity guests to exotic fishing locales.
7) Paterson
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paterson is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey - they share the name. Every day, Paterson adheres to a simple routine: he drives his daily route, observing the city as it drifts across his windshield and overhearing fragments of conversation swirling around him; he writes poetry into a notebook; he walks his dog; he stops in a bar and drinks exactly one beer. He goes home to his wife, Laura. By contrast, Laura's world is ever changing....
9) Blank city
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Blank city is an "absorbing snapshot of a daring time" (LA Times) when a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history. From the late 1970's through the mid 80's, when the East Village was still a wasteland of cheap rent and cheap drugs, these directors created bold works that would go on to profoundly influence the development of independent film as we know it today. Made on DIY...
Series
Criterion collection volume 400
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Willie, a disenchanted loner, is visited by his sixteen-year old Hungarian cousin Eva. Willie's equally slacker best friend Eddie also meets Eva, and the three become loose friends, until Eva decides to leave to visit Willie and Eva's Aunt Lottie in Cleveland. After a while Willie and Eddie are surprised to find that they miss Eva's companionship and take off for Cleveland in an old car. Finding Cleveland in winter to be disappointingly cold and unattractive,...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
With this breakout film, Jim Jarmusch established himself as one of the most exciting voices in the burgeoning independent-film scene, a road-movie poet with an affinity for Americana at its most offbeat. Jarmusch follows rootless Hungarian m̌igr ̌Willie, his pal Eddie, and his visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva as they drift from New York₂s Lower East Side to the snowy expanses of Lake Erie and the drab beaches of Florida, always managing to...
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood has an impressive track record, one that spans more than 4,000 films, of blatantly misrepresenting Native people and their cultures. Featuring interviews with filmmakers and activists such as Clint Eastwood, Jim Jarmusch and Russell Means, Reel Injun delves into the fascinating history of the Hollywood Indian with razor-sharp insight and humor, tracing its checkered cinematic evolution from the silent film era to today.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?
15) Mystery train
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A teenage couple from Japan on a pilgramage to Graceland, a mysterious Italian beauty escorting her husband's body back to Italy, and an unemployed, armed misfit known as Elvis meet in Memphis. Their intertwined tales create a comic masterpiece.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
East meets West in this hip-hop infused Samurai-gangster story in which a professional killer goes by the name of Ghost Dog and who lives by the age-old code of the Samurai. 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.
17) Blank city
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
In the late 1970s to the middle 1980s, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned...
18) Night on earth
Series
Criterion collection volume 401
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In five taxicabs in cities around the world (Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki), drivers and riders are headed for some unusual destinations.
19) Mystery train
Series
Criterion collection volume 521
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in Memphis and inspired by the ghost of Elvis, the stories of a teenage couple from Japan traveling to Graceland, an Italian woman escorting her husband's body home, and a crazy unemployed misfit named Elvis all weave together.
20) Dead man
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young man in search of a fresh start, William Blake embarks on an exciting journey to a new town ... never realizing the danger that lies ahead. But when a heated love triangle ends in double murder, Blake finds himself a wanted man, running scared - until a mysterious loner teaches him to face the dangers that follow a 'dead man.'" -- Container.