Coming to the Criterion Collection on BluRay in April: Elia Kazan’s 1957 satire A FACE IN THE CROWD and Jim Jarmusch’s 1984 indie comedy STRANGER THAN PARADISE. Synopsis: A Face in the Crowd chronicles the rise and fall of Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes (Andy Griffith), a boisterous entertainer discovered in an Arkansas […]
Jim Jarmusch
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With Broken Flowers, Director Jim Jarmusch (Ghost Dog, Coffee and Cigarettes) shows us again that less can sometimes be much more. Bill Murray plays an aging bachelor named Don Johnston who is drifting through life, not really knowing where he’s been or where he’s going. After his latest relationship with […]
Throughout the 1970s and 80s, The Z Channel was a dream come true for lovers of cinema. On Z, you could see every kind of film, from European Arthouse cinema to Hollywood blockbusters. Z was essentially the first pay cable channel to run movies 24 hours a day, well before […]
Indie Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has always made films that are, to me, akin to punk rock: simple yet extremely effective and powerful. Especially his early works such as the 1984 absurdist comedy Stranger Than Paradise which I revisited recently. He is continuously able to take a minimalist approach to cinema […]