Stranger than paradise / a film by Jim Jarmusch ; written and directed by Jim Jarmusch ; producer/production manager, Sara Driver ; produced by Grokenberger Film Produktion, Munich [and] Cinesthesia Productions, Inc., New York.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Container of (work): Stranger than paradise (Motion picture) Container of (work): Permanent vacation (Motion picture)
Notes:
Title and credits from screen. Originally released as a motion picture in 1984. Wide screen (1.78:1). Special features: commentary soundtrack with Jim Jarmusch and Richard Edson, from 1996; Permanent vacation (1980), Jarmushch's seventy-five-minute, color feature debut, presented in a high-definition digital restoration supervised by the directory; "Kino '84: Jim Jarmusch," a 1984 television program featuring interviews with cast and crew from Stranger than paradise and Permanent vacation; "Some days in January 1984," a behind-the-scenes Super 8 film by Tom Jarmusch; U.S. and Japanese trailers. New, restored high-definition digital transfer. Includes Jarmusch's first full-length feature, Permanent vacation (1980, 75 min.) / story and screenplay by Jim Jarmusch; cinematographer, Thomas DiCillo; editor, Jim Jarmusch; music, John Lurie and Jim Jarmusch. Stranger than paradise: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark, Tom DiCillo, Sara Driver. Permanent vacation: Chris Parker, Leila Gastil, John Lurie, Richard Boes, Sarah Driver.
Summary:
With this breakout film, Jim Jarmusch established himself as one of the most exciting voices in the burgeoning independent-film scene, a road-movie poet with an affinity for Americana at its most offbeat. Jarmusch follows rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and his visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva as they drift from New York's Lower East Side to the snowy expanses of Lake Erie and the drab beaches of Florida, always managing to make the least of wherever they end up.
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