Mystery Train was director Jim Jarmusch’s 4th film and his first since his low-budget debut, Permanent Vacation, to be shot in colour. His previous two were strikingly shot in black and white, which suggests that Jarmusch wished to visually capture Memphis in the best way that he could. Despite being […]
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Dead Man (1995) A wholly unique surrealist Western (Review)
For an extended period of time, the Western was the United States’ most beloved genre of film. Despite its popularity briefly dying as film transitioned between silent films and talkies, it was kicked back into the spotlight with John Ford’s Stagecoach; from that point onwards many directors such as Ford, […]
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Classic Film Kid – Down by Law (1986)
Cinema Eclectica 214 – The Last Of The English Tawdries
This week Graham and Tim check out Jim Jarmusch as he pioneers un-deadpan comedy with The Dead Don’t Die. Are the jokes as dusty as Jarmusch’s strangely goreless zombies? Off the Shelf sees Graham covering Border – the Mubi release which combines the two poles of modern Scandinavian cinema (bleak […]
Voice of the Moon (1990) The Master, Federico Fellini’s Final Film (Review)
Burroughs: The Movie (1983) A Bizarre treat for fans of William S. Boroughs (Review)
Howard Brookner was a film student at NYU with Jim Jarmusch and Tom DiCillo when he made a low-budget observational documentary about the most groundbreaking and original American writer of the 20th century, William S Burroughs. It should have been the start of a career to match his classmates, both […]
Top Five – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 19
Only Lovers Left Alive (2014) The Anti-Vampire Movie (Review)
Dead Man and Ghost Dog saw Indie favourite Jim Jarmusch bring his quirky idiosyncrasies to more traditionally visceral genres. Ghost Dog is worlds away from a traditional Yakuza or Samurai film, and the same is true for Dead Man with westerns. His 12th feature, Only Lovers Left Alive continues that […]