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Jim Jarmusch

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Paterson (2021)

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Paterson (2021)

One of the most important discoveries of this year's Glen Workshop was this: Not enough people have seen Jim Jarmusch's Paterson. Here's my original review.

Paterson (2016)

Paterson (2016)

1. It's as if director Jim Jarmusch heard about the year that I just survived and somehow decided to bless me, so he studied the movies that have given me particular blessings in the past, and then he went and made a movie that makes make me laugh

Great Scott! 30 years?

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Great Scott! 30 years?

A great film involving a mad scientist with wild white hair is having a 30th anniversary! (But not the movie you might think.)

Only Lovers Left Alive (2014) — Forget Twilight: These Are My Favorite Vampires

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Only Lovers Left Alive (2014) — Forget Twilight: These Are My Favorite Vampires

We're all vampires. That is to say, we all have particular kinds of "blood" that we seek — sources of sustenance and inspiration that keep our eyes open and our hearts beating in a dark and punishing world. For me, it's a particular kind of

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What Do 2013's Most Stylish Vampires Have in Common with Johnny Depp, Tom Waits, and Bill Murray?

What do 2013's most stylish vampires have in common with Tom Waits, Johnny Depp, and Bill Murray? A director: Jim Jarmusch.

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A Beginner's Guide to the Films of Jim Jarmusch

I've meant to write about the films of Jim Jarmusch for a long time. I knew it would be a challenge. He's one of a kind. I could have written a whole book on him, with a chapter for each film. Instead, I wrote a two-part

Browser: A 4th of July surprise. Wilco loves you, baby. Jarmusch. Bono & the Virgin. Salinger. And the scariest video ever posted online.

Hi ho, Jeffrey the Blogger here. This weekend, I've moved into revising the last eight chapters of Raven's Ladder. So... no 4th of July vacation for this guy! Anne and I skipped the fireworks show last night so I could keep working. We felt a little

Browser: Sam Phillips, David Bazan, Robert Shiller, economic bubbles, Bono on Easter, and Jim Jarmusch

I'm so busy editing the next strand of The Auralia Thread, Raven's Ladder, and composing new articles for Image and Christianity Today that I'm flat out of time to blog anything substantial. So here's a rundown of links that caught my attention

"Raven's Ladder": An Update

The new strand of The Auralia Thread will be called Raven's Ladder. I hope you like it. Tonight (all night) and tomorrow morning (all morning) I am packaging up my first draft for the editor. I have that familiar sensation of excitement and nerves and relief and apprehension.

Broken Flowers (2005)

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Broken Flowers (2005)

[This original version of this review of Broken Flowers was originally published at Christianity Today in August 2005.] Bill Murray, under the direction of Jim Jarmusch, declares the beginning of the end of the summer season of blockbusters by delivering August's first high-profile American art film: Broken Flowers.

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Cannes 2005 Winners! Dardennes, Jarmusch, and Tommy Lee Jones!

The directors of Rosetta and The Son, two films I dearly love, have just won the coveted Palme D'Or at Cannes for their latest film The Child. America may not know it, the Academy is too narrow-minded to appreciate it, but the Dardennes Brothers are two of the

Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)

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Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)

[This review was originally published at Christianity Today.] • If you could sit down and have a cup of coffee with anybody in the world alive today, who would you choose? Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has done even better than that. He's brought together many of his favorite pop culture