Anyone here a fan of Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man"? I love it. One of my all-time favorites.
Just saw that it's available streaming on Netflix. Hoping to re-watch it tonight for the first time in years.
Me. I was huge into Jarmusch during my college years and I've found as I've rewatched that they don't hold up at all. Except Dead Man.
They've all held up for me. In fact I used to hate Stranger Than Paradise til I rewatched it two years ago.
I'm with you Paul, I rewatched Mystery Train for the first time in years recently and loved it again. Though, the first time I watched it I didn't realize there were subtitles for the scenes with the Japanese couple so I had to try to figure out what they were saying from the context of the scene. I like it better that way.
I still love Down By Law the best though.
Dead Man is my favorite too. Maybe I'm wrong, but my sense is that Jarmusch is becoming a little passé, and younger film fans are largely not gravitating toward him anymore. I liked The Limits of Control overall, but it was a huge bomb and I haven't seen too many people defend it. His next movie apparently involves vampires, but I can't imagine it will have much to do w/ the overexposed Twilight/True Blood sort.
I think Jarmusch is a little more unique than he's given credit for. I don't know when we'll see another "hipster" filmmaker adept at not only namechecking a bunch of references, but drawing interesting parallels between them as a form of indirect, Greil Marcus-like pop culture criticism. I'm thinking not only of looking for echoes of the American west in Neil Young's music and running with the samurai/Wu-Tang thing, but also plunking Joe Strummer and Japanese hipsters into his rumination on Elvis and Memphis in Mystery Train (speaking of Marcus...). I know plenty of people find this approach boring or irritating, but I think there's still fun to be had in films like that one and Down By Law.
