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Created 2007-Apr-09. Updated 2020-Jan-21.

Jim Jarmusch (director, USA)

imageArchetypal American "independent" film auteur. His films are hip, smart, slow, bittersweet, and always interesting (too arty and shallow for some).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jarmusch
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000464

Favorite movies list

Down by law (1986)
(with Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni)
Part nightmare and part fairy tale; an italian tourist (Roberto Benigni!) and 2 other haples men end up in prison, then escape... Slow and hilarious.
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Dead Man (1995)
"Western"; a young man going west (both metaphorically and literally)!

Night on Earth (1991)
(LANewYorkParisRomeHelsinki)
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A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities: Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, Helsinki.

Broken flowers (2005)

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