i guess calling me names is a way to get me to pay attention to you. which, you know, i would never do otherwise.
― gabbneb, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:11 (sixteen years ago) link
*takes a caring course*
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm gonna see the golden compass tonight
― omar little, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i know nothing about it!
something about bears, nicole kidman looking bitchy, and daniel craig ftw in the end probably
― omar little, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link
nicole kidman in looking bitchy shock
she cant even help it anymore
ALL OTM
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Mystery Train - for Screamin' Jay, the Carl Perkins dialogue, Natchez = Matches, that fucking awesome pan shot of the Italian women in the airport with the airplane taking off behind her, and of course, "lost in space".
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/9940/18830783gl1.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 13 December 2007 03:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Steve Buscemi is the only actor in that truck cab who's still alive.
Or, as gabbnebb might say: they are all alive except the one on the right and the one on the left.
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 December 2007 07:27 (sixteen years ago) link
alex's ranking is otm on all counts.
― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 13 December 2007 07:40 (sixteen years ago) link
although ok maybe i'd bump stranger than paradise up to 2nd place. i love that movie unconditionally.
love him for his movies, and also for carving out the career he's had. i'm not really sure how he's done it, since i don't think he's ever made much money for himself or anyone else. although maybe not caring a whole lot about that is a necessary ingredient. (also probably doesn't hurt to be the coolest guy in the room, which he probably often is.)
― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 13 December 2007 07:49 (sixteen years ago) link
1) dead man 2) stranger than fiction 2) down by law 2) mystery train 5) the rest 6) except for the ones i haven't seen (permanent vacation, year of the horse)
― remy bean, Thursday, 13 December 2007 07:56 (sixteen years ago) link
dead man is like one of my top movies of ... uh ... ever?
Dead Man is amazing from beginning to end, and back round again.
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 13 December 2007 08:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I do have a weak spot for Ghost Dog, I admit
― warmsherry, Thursday, 13 December 2007 08:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i haven't seen year of the horse, but the neil young score (if you can call it that) to dead man is one of my favorite soundtracks.
― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 13 December 2007 08:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm with remy, noodle and tipsy. one of my all-time favourites.
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 13 December 2007 09:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Strangerthan Paradise by a ocuntry mile.
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 13 December 2007 09:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Monday, 17 December 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
xxxpost: I love Dead Man except for the soundtrack (and I am a Neil Young fan). It's really lazy and boring. I mean, compare it to Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas.
― spectra, Monday, 17 December 2007 03:10 (sixteen years ago) link
really? that's interesting, because i was never a neil young fan till i saw dead man. but ry cooder's st for paris, texas is fucking awesome.
― Rubyredd, Monday, 17 December 2007 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Everything about Dead Man sets it apart. The entertaining ugly violence, the score, his best-looking black & white film and his best cast: Depp, Robert Mitchum, Gabriel Byrne, John Hurt, Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover, Alfred Molina, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bishop.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Monday, 17 December 2007 05:12 (sixteen years ago) link
dead man is like one of my top movies of ... uh ... ever?-- remy bean, Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:56 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link
-- remy bean, Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:56 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link
― strgn, Monday, 17 December 2007 08:06 (sixteen years ago) link
that soundtrack
― strgn, Monday, 17 December 2007 08:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't get 'dead man'. it's going great guns until he meets the indian guy then it's zzzzzzzzzzz all the way, though the end is nice.
― banriquit, Saturday, 21 June 2008 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
wow me and alex in sf have the same jarmusch preferences
― jhøshea, Saturday, 21 June 2008 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
if you would like more entertainment from your tragedies, i would refer you instead to the film 'ghost dog', which has gunshots
― gabbneb, Saturday, 21 June 2008 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link
i guess dead man has those too. but it's in black and white. also, ghost dog has, like, dope beats and stuff.
― gabbneb, Saturday, 21 June 2008 13:23 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah 'ghost dog' is the freshness.
but with 'dead man', you get the feeling the mystical shit is for real.
― banriquit, Saturday, 21 June 2008 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, all those people did die
― gabbneb, Saturday, 21 June 2008 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.ica.org.uk/Jarmusch%20in%20Context+22863.twl
this looks rad, londoners. chance to see the cameraman, they live by night, l'atalante and branded to kill.
― rap band (schlump), Sunday, 29 November 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Wonder if I voted in this. Would've been Ghost Dog, probably.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
if night on earth had a few votes in favour of how much fun it is, the results would be pretty much otm.
― rap band (schlump), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't get dead man either. what was the point?
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Sunday, 11 July 2010 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/acid-western/Content?oid=890861
― the most horrifying moment in shallow grave (abanana), Sunday, 11 July 2010 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
still don't get it
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Sunday, 11 July 2010 06:23 (thirteen years ago) link
good read! i like Dead Man, but i haven't seen it years. review will probably prompt a re-watch in the near future.
xpost
― circa1916, Sunday, 11 July 2010 06:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Add me to the list of those who didn't get Dead Man when it first came out--I remember drifting and fidgeting through the whole thing--but liked it a lot better tonight. (Saw it right after Imitation of Life...I won't pretend it was a double-bill--two separate theatres.) I wish Iggy Pop's bit of silliness weren't there--he's a needless distraction--and the series of fade-outs right at the start seemed excessive. But the violence and the overall mood registered this time, and there were a number of really beautiful shots. Liked the music fine. I'll have to mull over all the William Blake and millennial undercurrents, but they're evocative.
http://www.salon.com/1999/12/02/deadman/
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 04:20 (eleven years ago) link
I love Dead Man but haven't seen it for years. My first viewing was with a friend who didn't really know anything about Jarmusch, and when we came out he said, "That was like a European movie about America." Which I think makes sense in ways he didn't even mean.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
And I didn't know Marcus was a fan of My Twentieth Century. There's a movie that deserves its own thread, if there was any way to actually see the thing any more.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 04:40 (eleven years ago) link
I remember being surprised when it showed up fairly high on decade-end polls, somewhere in the 10-20 range on a couple that I remember--it didn't seem to get a lot of attention on release. I can understand that better now; it does capture something. (Never heard of My Twentieth Century.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
Stranger Than Paradise held up well for me. I saw it four or five times in the '80s, but not since then. I was very susceptible to its mood and its look at the time--it seemed like such an emphatic no to where American film was then headed. I was more mindful tonight of certain affectations--the blacking out especially--but I still think it has a kind of small-scale perfection, and probably lots of Reagan-era resonances (intended or not) too. A lot of lines came back to me immediately--when Aunt Lottie walked away in disgust as the three of them headed out for Florida, I said (in my best Hungarian accent) "Son of a bitch" a second before she did. Richard Edson's priceless, and I still have a crush on Eszter Balint. (There was a record store in Toronto in the '80s that had an Eszter lookalike working for them.) I didn't know then who Rammellzee was, so that was nice. Not sure if I'll get around to watching Permanent Vacation, which is included on a second disc.
― clemenza, Thursday, 18 July 2013 04:13 (ten years ago) link
Permanent Vacation is at least worth watching once. It's interesting to see what Brooklyn looked like a million years ago.
― Moodles, Thursday, 18 July 2013 04:48 (ten years ago) link
yeah you're off by nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred and sixty seven years.
― what a wonderful url (Matt P), Thursday, 18 July 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link
gabbneb was so unpleasant, glad he hasn't turned back up *knocks on wood*
― what a wonderful url (Matt P), Thursday, 18 July 2013 05:17 (ten years ago) link
otm.
i love 'stranger than paradise' a lot, and like-to-love everything else i've seen of his.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 18 July 2013 06:05 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_limp7oRAHp1qis5gbo1_500.jpg
Screamin' Jay is still my main man.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 July 2013 06:48 (ten years ago) link
on Criterion?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 October 2021 01:49 (two years ago) link
Yeah, there's a new Jarmusch bundle with new arrivals OLLA and Coffee & Cigarettes, and Ghost Dog and Dead Man back for short engagements, plus the permanent library stuff.
― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Monday, 4 October 2021 01:52 (two years ago) link
In the last week i rewatched Mystery Train and Dead Man, partly out of curiosity because I hadn’t seen either in forever but loved them when they came out. I have to say Mystery Train didn’t really hold my attention. Maybe it’s a victim of its own influence, but the hipster riffs and in particular all the Elvis references felt a little rote. I did love the depiction of Memphis itself, and I didn’t dislike the film but it felt kind of pat.
Dead Man still rules, though. Just gorgeous, for one thing, and I think it’s grounded enough to carry all of its pretentions. The relationship between Blake and Nobody remains one of my favorite “buddy film” pairings.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 31 October 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
I had the same reactions to both flicks, tipsy.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 October 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link