I suppose people are comparing Wes Anderson to Jarmusch because they are seen as the preeminent “independent directors” now? To me, there is very little link to draw between them, even if certain elements are present in both of their oeuvres, like their ability to select the perfect music at any given point. But the moods they establish in their respective oeuvres couldn’t be more different in my eyes. Whereas Anderson is a master miniaturist, shoving the maximum amount of detail into the smallest possible space, Jarmusch is a master with story structure, clearly blocking off pieces of his plot (whether through titles in Stranger Than Paradise, fades-to-black in STP and Broken Flowers, tri-partite narrative in STP and Down By Law, numerous “unrelated” stories in Night On Earth and Coffee And Cigarettes, or just the long fade-out of Dead Man) in a way that feels breezy and weighty at the same time.
I love ’em both, but Jarmusch is my favorite filmmaker. Period.
I’ll agree with the first guy on Three Amigos.
Really, just a lot of movies I liked when I was between five and ten (Little Giants, Dunston Checks In, Home Alone 1 AND/ESPECIALLY 2, yeah…)
And I’ll also agree with Justin Traviss on Love, Actually.
1. Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
2. Beach House – Devotion
3. Ponytail – Ice Cream Spiritual
4. Jay Reatard – Matador Singles ’08
5. The Music Tapes – Music Tapes For Clouds And Tornadoes
6. Deerhunter – Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
7. Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna
8. Dan Friel – Ghost Town
9. Excepter – Debt Dept.
10. The Cool Kids – The Bake Sale
11. No Age – Nouns
12. The Tallest Man On Earth – Shallow Grave
13. Ellen Allien – SOOL
14. Spiritualized – Songs In A&E
15. Dirt Dress – Theme Songs
16. The Magnetic Fields – Distortion
17. Women – Women
18. Valet – Naked Acid
19. Kelley Polar – I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling
20. Yellow Swans – Disintegration
Jarmusch over 3 years ago
I suppose people are comparing Wes Anderson to Jarmusch because they are seen as the preeminent “independent directors” now? To me, there is very little link to draw between them, even if certain elements are present in both of their oeuvres, like their ability to select the perfect music at any given point. But the moods they establish in their respective oeuvres couldn’t be more different in my eyes. Whereas Anderson is a master miniaturist, shoving the maximum amount of detail into the smallest possible space, Jarmusch is a master with story structure, clearly blocking off pieces of his plot (whether through titles in Stranger Than Paradise, fades-to-black in STP and Broken Flowers, tri-partite narrative in STP and Down By Law, numerous “unrelated” stories in Night On Earth and Coffee And Cigarettes, or just the long fade-out of Dead Man) in a way that feels breezy and weighty at the same time.
I love ’em both, but Jarmusch is my favorite filmmaker. Period.
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Jarmusch over 3 years ago
“Independent directors” in the United States, I should have said.
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Guilty Pleasures over 3 years ago
I’ll agree with the first guy on Three Amigos.
Really, just a lot of movies I liked when I was between five and ten (Little Giants, Dunston Checks In, Home Alone 1 AND/ESPECIALLY 2, yeah…)
And I’ll also agree with Justin Traviss on Love, Actually.
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Your favorite title sequence over 3 years ago
Contempt’s is startling and funny.
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What films do you always catch shit for for not liking? over 3 years ago
Fight Club (a truly awful film, indeed)
The Dark Knight
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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Top Albums of the Year (aka What rocks your ipod) 2008 over 3 years ago
1. Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
2. Beach House – Devotion
3. Ponytail – Ice Cream Spiritual
4. Jay Reatard – Matador Singles ’08
5. The Music Tapes – Music Tapes For Clouds And Tornadoes
6. Deerhunter – Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
7. Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna
8. Dan Friel – Ghost Town
9. Excepter – Debt Dept.
10. The Cool Kids – The Bake Sale
11. No Age – Nouns
12. The Tallest Man On Earth – Shallow Grave
13. Ellen Allien – SOOL
14. Spiritualized – Songs In A&E
15. Dirt Dress – Theme Songs
16. The Magnetic Fields – Distortion
17. Women – Women
18. Valet – Naked Acid
19. Kelley Polar – I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling
20. Yellow Swans – Disintegration
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Most Prized Criterion in Your Collection? over 3 years ago
3 disc Breathless??? What?
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WHO IS / WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM ACTRESS EVER? over 3 years ago
I’ll put in another vote for Juliette Binoche.
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Films that made you take action about 3 years ago
Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 inspired me to memorize The Crying of Lot 49. I’ve only gotten the first chapter thus far, but I’m on my way.
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Great Directors and their most underated films about 3 years ago
Somebody mentioned it…and it’s my favorite movie…Bertolucci’s Partner.
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