“Paterson” seems like the type of movie that makes people scoff and roll their eyes at film critics when we attempt to describe it: Adam Driver plays a bus driver named Paterson, who lives in Paterson, New Jersey. He writes poetry, goes to work, and well, not much else really happens. Written and directed by […]
Jim Jarmusch
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Film review: “Gimme Danger”
Director Jim Jarmusch delivers a big, sloppy love letter to legendary punk band The Stooges with “Gimme Danger,” a rollicking new documentary celebrating what the filmmaker dubs “the greatest rock & roll band ever.” Headlined by James Osterberg — better known as Iggy Pop — and rounded out by brothers Ron and Scott Asheton on […]
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“Only Lovers Left Alive”
Leave it to Jim Jarmusch, the director who gave film audiences the “psychedelic western,” 1995’s “Dead Man,” and the gangster/samurai hybrid, “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai,” to find a way to put his own unique stamp on that most trendy of cinematic monsters: the vampire. In “Only Lovers Left Alive,” Jarmusch finds a […]
