Posts tagged "Jim Jarmusch"
Night on Earth / Winona Ryder (and Gena Rowlands)
-I’ll tell you something, I don’t always wanna be a cab driver.
-What do you really wanna be?
-A mechanic.
Down by Law Polaroids.
This gallery features first assistant cameraman Jack Anderson’s Polaroid test shots for the various camera setups in Jim Jarmusch’s Down by Law. On the back of each Polaroid, Anderson recorded technical information for the shot, including the film stock, lens, T-stop, focus distance, filters, and other details. (Criterion)
Your films are about love, about trust and mistrust, about isolation, joy, sadness, ecstasy and stupidity. They’re about restlessness, drunkenness, resilience and lust, about humor, stubbornness, miscommunication and fear. But mostly they’re about love and they take one to a far deeper place than any study of “narrative form.” Yeah, you are a great filmmaker, one of my favorites. But what your films illuminate most poignantly is that celluloid is one thing and the beauty, strangeness and complexity of human experience is another.
John Cassavetes, my hat is off to you. I’m holding it over my heart.


