Showing posts with label jim jarmusch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jim jarmusch. Show all posts

Monday, 22 November 2021

Only Lovers Left Alive

Forgot how good the soundtrack of this film is. Lots of postrock tracks, done by Jim Jarmusch' own band, Sqürl

Saturday, 25 April 2020

the Dead Don't Die

Typical Jim Jarmusch film. Bill Murray, small role for Iggy Pop. Enjoyable and as strange as to be expected.

Sunday, 17 May 2015

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

Slow vampire film in Jim Jarmusch style with an amazing soundtrack by Jozef Van Wissem and SQÜRL. Don't be in a hurry to watch it, but if you're in the mood for slow gothic clips and estranged music, this is the film

Sunday, 19 October 2014

The Typewriter, Rifle, and Movie Camera

A documentary on Sam Fuller, by Tim Robbins, Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino, including Martin Scorcese.

Intense man with the gift and wish for story telling.

Should watch "Pickup on South Street" perhaps... it was used a lot as footage. Also "Steel Helmet", and 'Shockproof'

Monday, 7 May 2012

Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

Typically Jim Jarmusch; from the steady-cam-on-character-with-song start, to the disjointed fragments of how people live their lives, not shunning the difficult silences. The audio that keeps running just 1 sec after the fragment has turned black... the acting, which wasn't too good, yet at the same time felt pure because those are people who do not act, who are simply who they are...

Pretty amazing, though not a film you watch out of sheer fun.

Screamin' Jay Hawking - "I put a spell on you"

Friday, 10 September 2010

Jim Jarmusch - "Derailed"

Definitely different in style from "Down By Law" and "Dead Man". In style, I definitely liked those more. More special, estranged.

Perhaps not the right film to watch right now... then again, happy end and all that.

Never been a big fan of Jennifer Aston, prejudice due to "Friends" and all that, but she wasn't bad.

American cities... how scared should I be. Scared whiteboy...

Jim Jarmusch - "Down By Law"

Tom Waits, Roberto... (that Italian guy)

Wonderful film. To see and be seen many many times more.

Already commented on openingstrack. Not much music, rest of the film. Not much needed.


Monday, 6 September 2010

Tom Waits - "Jockey Full of Bourbon"

Openingstrack of Jim Jarmusch' "Down By Law"

Amazing. Seems somehow a contemporary of True Blood's opening sequence with Jace Everett - "Bad Things"

Edna Million in a drop dead suit
Dutch pink on a downtown train
Two dollar pistol but the gun won't shoot
I'm in the corner in the pouring rain
16 men on a deadman's chest
And I've been drinking from a broken cup
2 pairs of pants and a mohair vest
I'm full of bourbon; I can't stand up.
Chorus:
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on the fire; your children all alone
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on the fire; your children all alone
Schiffer broke a bottle on Morgan's head
And I've been stepping on the devil's tail

Across the stripes of a full moon's head
Through the bars of a Cuban jail
Bloody fingers on a purple knife
A flamingo drinking from a coctail glass
I'm on the lawn with somebody else's wife
Come admire the view from up on top of the mast
Chorus
Yellow sheets in a Hong Kong bed
Stazybo horn and a Slingerland ride
To the carnival is what she said
A hundred dollars makes it dark inside