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What am I looking for with his movies? Why do I never seem to get what his point is, although I generally feel like I like the movie?
Interesting characters in situations that may seem out-there, but there's a very clear path for how said characters got there?
I never really think of a Jarmusch film as having with a greater sense of the world or a *point*, really. He's just telling a story.
Or, what tommyrot and Robin said.
Which movies in particular have you seen, Raq?
Raq, I can't help you much but I loved Ghost Dog.
Chiming in on the Ghost Dog love, but I'm also a big samurai fan.
Huh. I've never seen a Jarmush movie. I think I was led to believe his style was aggressively quirky (which doesn't sound like it's true from the above posts), and I hate aggressive quirky. I'm gonna see Broken Flowers and see if I like that enough to check out his other work.
I watched Peter Weir's The Last Wave last night, a fantastic, creepy-as-hell movie about a rational Western man encountering an Otherness
Oh yeah. I have to rewatch this film some time; I recall being mesmerized and creeped out, but I can't even tell you what it was about beyond that. Something apocalyptic. I did like that last shot though.
Weir made this one back to back with Picnic at Hanging Rock, right? They'd make a good double feature. Or throw in Roeg's Walkabout and make it a triple-feature.
IMDb tells me Weir's adopting William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. No casting yet, but I'm stoked.
I think I was led to believe his style was aggressively quirky
Huh. I'd say more langorously quirky. My first Jarmusch film was Dead Man, and I immediately fell in love. It's just so... odd. And unexplained. And beautiful.
I loved Ghost Dog, and would swear it had a point, but I couldn't tell you what it was. Perhaps the samurai quotations. However, the descriptions of his style make me want to run away.
I loved Ghost Dog, and would swear it had a point, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
Well, there was all that Zen stuff about always being ready for your own death. That stuck in my mind the most. Also, pigeons.
Weir's adopting William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. No casting yet, but I'm stoked.
This is awesome!
Night on Earth was my first Jarmusch, and I recently watched Ghost Dog. My husband just bought Dead Man because he'd seen it a few years ago and it had really stuck with him, and yet he's been unable to explain it.
To me, Jarmusch seems like an auteur rather than a straightforward director, but his movies seem...uneven. But they have memorable tones.
Weir's adopting William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. No casting yet, but I'm stoked.
Weir gives me hope that someone can actually make a William Gibson story into a good film.
And bleach my brain forever of Johnny Mnemonic.
I posted something about this the other day:
September 7, 2005 - It was recently announced that Marvel Entertainment has secured a $525 million loan package that will allow it to produce 10 films based on its comic book characters, specifically Captain America, the Avengers, Nick Fury, Black Panther, Cloak & Dagger, Dr. Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack, Shang-Chi and Ant-Man. Paramount will distribute the films, which will carry a price tag somewhere between $50 million-$165 million each.
Well....
IGN FilmForce has learned that British filmmaker Edgar Wright is poised to direct Ant-Man. Wright apparently plans on making Ant-Man a comedy.
Neither Wright's reps nor Marvel responded to our inquiries for comment.
Wright is most famous for doing Spaced and Shaun of the Dead.
Link has a picture of Ant-Man.
Ant man sez: "Stop him, my pets! Obey your leader! The Ant Man commands you!