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It was an absolute honor to see Jim Jarmusch this past Saturday…kind of a real pinch me is this real wait please stop pinching me it actually hurts kind of a feeling! I’ve been a fan of Jim Jarmusch since I could walk….no, perhaps that is an exaggeration but it’s at least been awhile. I am trying to think of the first film I actually saw by him and I think it was Coffee and Cigarettes. That was a film seen at just the right age where I had discovered coffee and longed for more philosophical conversations fueled by caffeine and thoughts. I thought the film clever but not too clever. More like the type of clever fitting for a film I’d actually want to be in myself-not to become famous but just to have a few good conversations. Dead Man was another film that made me realize the vital place of poetry, like that of William Blake, in this world. Years later, I would fall in love with Paterson and William Carlos Williams…the way the twins and switching of careers were made whimsical along with metaphorical plums. This is just to say that I have admired this human for a while. I have watched Mystery Train and loved the way every shot was framed with perfection. Night on Earth was a way to appreciate the moments that people never seem to account for and Ghost Dog was compelling in a way that nodded to pop culture but creating something all of its own. Even the spookier The Dead Don’t Die and Only Lovers Left Alive were genius films.
Jarmusch talked about his empathy for actors and how he didn’t want to put actors through the strenuous hardships that other directors do. He talked about being careful and particular about scenes but also imagining a human in a way that they might evolve into a character. He talked about meeting Jean-Luc Godard and talking about the difference between ice cream in Paris and in Italy. He talked about how Neil Young and he had agreed that the best day was a day without a plan. He mentioned that he enjoyed poetry but he thought the best advice about writing it was along the NY school line of thinking that you should write for a person in mind vs. the whole world. He talked about how he didn’t care for musicals outside of Busby Berkeley films and how the director of Nosferatu, F. W. Murnau, had written an essay for Colliers in the 1920s before talking films about how someday he envisioned that films would feature real people doing real things instead of just beautiful glamorous people. Jarmusch talked about how Robert Mitchum had a really vivid sense of humor. Jarmusch said he was an outlier in Hollywood because he had to have the final cut. He revealed his next to be released film will make Paterson feel like an action film. He said he wasn’t interested in owning a big house with a pool in Beverly Hills. When he was talking about Only Lovers Left Alive and Paterson, he said it was great when you found someone where even those boring moments were great.
Simply put, there is just no one this Earth quite like Jim Jarmusch….
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One of my favorite film makers and humans alive! Here's Jarmusch presenting some stills from his book Some Collages at the Music Box Theater.
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If there is some comfort in this world, it is that we still have all of the art that exists now and before us.
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It's been said that in order to 'make it' in New York, one has to find a way to create a very unique and immediately recognizable identity, a kind of impressive "branding" of self. This is seen in particular in the arts and underground worlds, alternative culture, which New York is also famous for.
Here the almost completely dissolved face portrays the failure, perhaps, of achieving identity and recognition in a city so large that sometimes extreme behaviours and personas are the only way to survive and flourish in the massive caverns of indifference.
Like many of these New York images, windows are involved. What's behind them and what's reflected in them. This creates a rich potential of possibilities and layering. This was shot in a shop window in the Rockefeller Centre, just off 5th Avenue.
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Music Link: "Funnel of Love" - SQURL ( Film Director, Jim Jarmusch's band ), from the soundtrack to his film, "Only Lovers Left Alive". This is the opening sequence when we get our first and fantastic look at the two protagonists of this most incredible of love stories.
Jarmusch chose to make his main characters vampires who no longer kill to live, who've grown very erudite and cultured, and who've been in love ... for centuries. He did this in order to ask questions about the nature of love, it's longevity and what it means to be committed to another being. How would a deeply loving relationship be .... if it lasted centuries or millennia, he asks?
The song itself questions identity and sureness of being, like the lovers in the story. It's brash, odd, even rough texture seemed to suit the image, itself in identity crisis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB2vyZgOK-A
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Rincón de Tánger donde se rodó el final de uno de los dramas románticos más fantásticos -en todos sus sentidos- de los últimos años: "Solo los amantes sobreviven" (Only lovers left alive, Jim Jarmusch, 2013).
Music Jozef van Wissem youtu.be/zdeNU2bxX18
AND The Selfish Giant [social drama in the English tradition]
by Duna Vallès
January 2015
"Photographic censored kisses for manic compulsive love in all its fullness"