Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jim Jarmusch Stars: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloe Sivigny, Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, Carol Kane, Iggy Pop, RZA, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Austin Butler, Selena Gomez, Sara Driver, Jahi Winston, Maya Delmont, Taliyah Whitaker, Larry Fessenden. Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive was an unconventional take on the vampire genre. …
GIMME DANGER
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Jim Jarmusch. There have been at least three great music documentaries this year - Amy Berg's insightful and comprehensive Janis Joplin: Little Blue Girl; Ron Howard's The Beatles: Eight Days A Week, which was a comprehensive look at the band during the height of their early fame in the mid 60s; and Gimme Danger, Jim Jarmusch's look at the music and career of Iggy …
JIM JARMUSCH: ROCK N ROLL – interview with ACMI programmer Kristy Mathison
by GREG KING This summer, ACMI is presenting a spotlight on filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, one of the most essential independent American directors, with a special season Jim Jarmusch: Rock N Roll, screening from December 27. Not only will it feature Gimme Danger, his new documentary about Iggy Pop and the Stooges, but four classic films that capture his creative music luminaries such as Iggy Pop and Tom Waits. Greg …
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PATERSON
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jim Jarmusch Stars: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Barry Shabaka Henley, Masatoshi Nagase. Independent filmmaker and auteur Jim Jarmusch is something of an acquired taste and his languidly paced, usually slow moving and often oblique films do not hold broad appeal. His films are often melancholy and focus more on mood rather than narrative drive. There is a melancholy …
SLING BLADE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Billy Bob Thornton Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Natalie Canerday, J T Walsh, Robert Duvall, James Hampton, Rick Dial, Jim Jarmusch, Christy Ward Running Time: 135 minutes. Actor/writer Billy Bob Thornton's screenplays for the tense and violent thriller One False Move and the wonderful but largely ignored drama A Family Thing …
