#p: jim jarmusch

[wildspringday]

pedro almodóvar, jim jarmusch, and john waters by catherine mcgann, 1990 via mubi

#<3 #p: pedro almodóvar #p: jim jarmusch #p: john waters #photography! #*mine #mine: edits #pedro almodóvar #jim jarmusch #john waters

[filmaticbby]

Aries: Tarantino, F. F. Coppola, Andrea Arnold, Eric Rohmer, Edgar Wright, Ruben Östlund, Josh Safdie, David Lean, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michael Haneke, Martin McDonagh

Taurus: Wes Anderson, Orson Welles, Sofia Coppola, Lars von Trier, Terry Zwigoff, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, John Waters, Frank Capra

Gemini: Fassbinder, Hideaki Anno, Makhmalbaf, Agnès Varda, Alex Garland, Clint Eastwood, Yorgos Lanthimos, Aaron Sorkin, Ken Loach, Alexander Sokurov, Giuseppe Tornatore

Cancer: Abbas Kiarostami, Wong Kar-wai, P. T. Anderson, Mike White, Ari Aster, Ingmar Bergman, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Paul Verhoeven, Robert Eggers, Béla Tarr, Mel Brooks, Ken Russell, Sidney Lumet, Kinji Fukasaku

Leo: Alfred Hitchcock, Greta Gerwig, Alain Robbe-grillet, Kubrick, Wes Craven, Taika Waititi, Luca Guadagnino, Christopher Nolan, Polanski, Sam Mendes, Richard Linklater, Nicolas Roeg, James Cameron, Pablo Larraín, M. Night Shyamalan, Iñárritu, Gus Van Sant, Peter Weir, Wim Wenders, Maurice Pialat

Virgo: Tom Ford, Joe Wright, Paul Feig, Dario Argento, David Fincher, Brian De Palma, Baz Luhrmann, Tim Burton, Friedkin, Takashe Miike, Noah Baumbach, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, E. Coen

Libra: Julie Dash, Almodóvar, Jacques Tati, Ang Lee, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ti West, Walerian Borowczyk, Nicolas Winding Refn, Satoshi Kon, Kenneth Lonergan, Michael Powell, Jacques Tati, Steve McQueen, Denis Villeneuve

Scorpio: Mike Nichols, Barry Jenkins, Charlie Kaufman, Céline Sciamma, Tsai Ming-liang, Jean Rollin, Scorsese, Louis Malle, Luchino Visconti, François Ozon, Julia Ducournau

Sagittarius: Sion Sono, Cassavetes, Raj Kapoor, Steven Spielberg, Eliza Hittman, Terrence Malick, Ozu, Alfonso Cuarón, Gregg Araki, Larry Charles, Judd Apatow, Kathryn Bigelow, Lenny Abrahamson, J. Coen, Jean Luc Godard, Diane Kurys, Ridley Scott, Lynne Ramsay, Woody Allen, Fritz Lang

Capricorn: Larry Clark, David Lynch, Harmony Korine, Damien Chazelle, David Lowery, Mary Harron, Sergio Leone, Todd Haynes, Pedro Costa, Gaspar, Noe, Fellini, Joseph Losey, Miyazaki, John Carpenter, Steven Soderbergh, Michael Curtiz, John Singleton, Vertov

Aquarius: Jim Jarmusch, John Hughes, Darren Aronofsky, Jodorowski, Michael Mann, Derek Cianfrance, Alex Payne, Truffau, Eisenstein, Tone Hooper

Pisces: Pasolini, Sean Baker, Paul Schrader, Bernardo Bertolucci, Benny Safdie, Jacques Rivette, Bunuel, Luc Besson, David Cronenberg, Spike Lee, Rob Reiner, Mike Mills, Sebastián Lelio, Jordan Peele, Ron Howard, Robert Altman

#THIS IS MY LIST U CAN MAKE UR OWN #😭

[terrain-vague]

Close-ups. Mystery train, Jim Jarmusch, 1989. #yūkikudō #jimjarmusch @jim.jarmusch #mysterytrain #colorpencildrawing #carolineandrieu (à Memphis, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co37spQNRNp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#yūkikudō #jimjarmusch #mysterytrain #colorpencildrawing #carolineandrieu

[ashtrayfloors]

fragments of mid-September

The between-season. Summer days, autumn nights. The pumpkins orangeing on the vine.

Mercury Rx. All my old issues & patterns coming back again. Doing weekly tarot readings for myself; drawing my lifelong stalker card. Three of Swords. Heartbreak, sorrow, strife. Same as it ever was. I don’t think I’ve cried this much since 2016.

Last week I burned the inside of my wrist with a cigarette. Haven’t done anything like that in years. I felt stupid & weak. But it felt good. None of my healthy coping mechanisms are working.

(I’ve quit smoking but still had a few cigarettes in a pack. Lit one just to burn myself with it. It was a fucking clove cigarette. Christ.)

Once again mourning the friends I lost in the great Friend Exodus of 2014. Once again wondering why? I won’t ever really know, & at this point the why of it doesn’t matter. I’m just lonesome. I want someone to come over with a bottle of tequila and an acoustic guitar, & we could pass ‘em both back & forth, drink tequila & sing old folk songs. I want someone to have a Jim Jarmusch movie marathon with. I want to sit with someone all night in a diner, alternately talking art & philosophy & just sitting silently, writing or reading our own things. I want someone to go to a copy shop with me & make Xerox art.

I feel very old & very young.

I’ve cut back on alcohol & caffeine & other than my lapse into self-harm I’m trying not to be self-destructive but god.

I miss being able to justify putting whiskey in my coffee every morning.

I miss hopping trains.

I need to finish my goddamn zine & I’ve stalled out. I’ve stalled out on a lot of things.

I’m bored & restless & uninspired.

Scratch that last one. I have hundreds of ideas but when I sit down to work on any of them it’s a struggle to get anything out.

At least writing-wise. Visual art is coming easier these days.

The kids are bored & restless, too. That makes them cranky, & then they act up, & I snap at them, & then feel worse about myself.

& they are relentless, always interrupting me. So even when I do start writing, I can’t get into a good flow.

I feel like I’m failing them and myself.

Then there’s all the car trouble & financial worries & all the stress from that.

I’m tired all the time but can’t sleep. At least not without ASMR & antihistamines, or BDSM & bourbon.

When I do sleep, I have fucked up dreams.

P.’s familiar issues are popping up again, too. Namely how he reads things I’ve written & think he knows who they’re about & when they occurred. I’ve tried to explain that the ‘you’ in many of my love poems isn’t one specific person, it’s a hybrid of various people. That the stories in much of my prose are a combination of fact & fiction, or that I write about stuff that happened years ago as though it were recent.

We’re having a yard sale a couple weeks from now, so I’m going through my things to figure out what I can sell. It’s hard for me to get rid of stuff. After all those years of having stuff stolen by vindictive roommates, having to sell stuff to pay the bills, having stuff damaged in flooded basements... I don’t like to let go of anything.

I’m trying to find a way through all this.

Trying to be gentle with myself, but not too gentle.

Gentle like: not beating myself up (emotionally) for crying a lot, or for snapping at my kids sometimes, or for that clove-cigarette burn.

But also tough enough to say: stop moping. Get over yourself & do something rad, or I’ll kick your ass.

Trying to be gentle with the kids. Letting them know every day that I love them, even when I yell; letting them know that I don’t always love their behavior but I always love them.

People have been really generous since I posted about the car/money stuff on my main blog, & I am so so beyond grateful.

After I write this, I’ll be finishing up my triptych for the zodiac-themed art show and submitting it.

I will finish my zine before MWPZF. I work on it every day, even if only in brief snatches.

I’m mapping out other writing projects. I have copious poem-notes. An idea for a short film; another one for a short story. Last fall I got an idea for a horror novel and have made a lot of notes about it since; I’m going to work on that during NaNoWriMo this year.

A week from today, I’m taking a one-hour online divinatory poetics course, with special guest CAConrad.

I’m planning out what to play on my next podcast.

I got a stick & poke tattoo kit so I can level up my stick & poke tattoo game. So far I’m just sketching out ideas; next I’ll practice on the fake skin. My first one will be a ghost. Followed by an oak leaf & a chicory flower. Then I’m going to fix/finish that compass rose moon I started all those years ago.

I’m letting myself be the mystical lovesick romantic dork I really am; letting myself romanticize everything, again.

Like the beautiful women I saw downtown last week—the tattooed mom & the butch dyke in overalls.

Like Thursday, turning the walk to the park with the kiddos into an epic fantasy adventure. The park was a strange & distant land. We had to walk because ‘our chariot had broken down.’ The neighborhood crows were messengers; the things people had carved into or written on the park benches were markings in many languages, left by fellow travelers through this strange land. & of course those walking sticks/wizard staffs we found.

Like the fact that I have apparently decided to become an amateur woodworker, at least for this one wizard staff. I spent hours after we got home on Thursday afternoon removing bark (it was weirdly therapeutic), and I’m planning on removing the rest of the bark over the course of this week, then painting it & otherwise decorating it.

Like sitting out back with P. late Thursday night, & seeing a huge blue-green fireball arc itself through the sky & down somewhere northwest of here.

Like Friday night, how we couldn’t make it to the bonfire & night hike at the Eco-Justice Center, so we had a fire in our backyard fire pit, then took a night walk around our neighborhood. The streetlights through the trees made leaf shadows on the houses; the front yard lights made diamond shadows on the sidewalk.

Yes, I’ll make it through. Now I’m just waiting for October. Cross my fingers, cross my heart, & hope to die.

#ashtrayfloors #dear livejournal #september #mercury rx #crying #self harm cw #loneliness #bad things #small good things #romanticizing everything #plans #waiting for october #three of swords

[ecsundance]

What is an Indie film?

In the world of cell phones and a billion cameras, anyone can make a film. Making a movie that is worth watching is a different story. While taking this class we have discussed what it means to be an indie film and what to look for when watching them in comparison to a typical Hollywood movie. We first learned about the history of where they came from and how bigger production companies first grew and gave us a Hollywood standard. What was left in the movie world were indie films and they can be generally classified as having lower budgets, abnormal story-telling techniques, alternate advertising or distribution, and character led stories with less plot and more realistic stakes. Indie films cannot be defined simply in economic, stylistic, or thematic terms, a more complex understanding of culture is necessary to understand what an indie film is, especially in relation to how humans are culturally at different times the films are made. 

According to Michael Z. Newman in his book, “Indie, An American Film Culture”, claims there are three slogans to use as a general method of understanding an indie film as it is different from a Hollywood style movie. The first being, characters are emblems. Newman defines this slogan as characters becoming emblems of their social identities (Newman p.30).  Meaning each character in the film is deliberate and with intention, they represent more than themselves. Basically for example a wealthy portrayal of a person in a film might show the affluence and maybe ignorance that could come with it, or the mundane expressions of another character could be meant to show the relatability between every person's everyday unexcited life. To understand who these people are, the viewer must understand the culture of the film as well as the culture we all live in today or the times the films were produced. Seeing characters this way allows us to relate to them more, especially if it is a realistic indie film such as Stranger than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch (1984), and enables the audience to understand a deeper meaning of the characters and in turn the story. 

The second slogan is, “Form is a Game”. According to Newman, this slogan focuses on the aesthetics of a film. The camera shots, angles, cutting, and all technical aspects of the art. Indie films will generally have a lot more experimentation shots, and different ways of innovating a movie when compared to mainstream Hollywood (Newman, 34). A good thing to keep in mind while watching films is, “Why is this story being told this way”. A story can be broken down and simplified and often, there are many stories that are very similar. However, why is this story being told this way? Why are the characters the way they are, how does this affect the progression of the story, who are we supposed to pay the most attention to and why? The setup of the film is a game to the director in the sense that there are a million different ways of doing it and the game is making one up creatively. Paying attention to how other filmmakers are doing this is important for inspiration and understanding the creation of film. 

The third slogan is, “When in doubt read as anti-Hollywood”. This slogan represents the most general of all and can be applied to any film, or media-like movie. Like I suggested earlier, anyone can make a film, most films are not Hollywood films, so when in doubt read it as such. Besides indie, another type of film exists as a third category known as , “Avant-Garde” films and they are typically the most experimental. 

The film, Stranger Than Paradise directed by Jim Jarmusch (1984), is a great example of all of these as it is about, according to himself, three characters who are going nowhere and having trouble getting there.” (Winter, 123). The film features an average Bulgarian guy living in an apartment in New York City and his cousin Eva comes to visit him from Budapast on her way to Clevand to move in with their aunt. Willie, the guy, has a friend Eddie who sometimes hangs around. Not much happens in this film, which makes the characters all the better. The characters as emblems is very apparent in this film as well as form being a game. The film is shot with various very long takes allowing characters to move in and out of frames with no cuts. Some scenes are cut together with long spans of blank black in between. The formation of this film is extremely anti-hollywood and is one of the most indie of all indie films which is why it became as popular as it did for being what it was. 

Understanding what makes a film an indie film isn’t too hard, and is mostly reliant on the budget of the movie which causes other problems leading to creative outcomes.  An indie film is not one thing but rather a broad general explanation of an alternative style of filmmaking outside of the mainstream Hollywood world. An indie film cannot be described through simply economic, stylistic, or thematic terms, but a cultural understanding is necessary to relate and empathize with the film and its meaning. 

Referenced Text:

"Indie, An American Film Culture" by Michael Z. Newman

Winter, “StrangerThan Paradise,” pp. 121-123 

Evan Nobles 

#sundance #indie #sundance 2024 #film review

[tshmsondr]

2023.02.12(sun) JIM JARMUSCH Special Selection YEBISU GARDEN CINEMA 期間中1回は絶対に観たいと思い恵比寿へ。 迷った挙句"STRANGER THAN PARADISE"をチョイス。 スクリーンで観るジャームッシュ作品は格別でした。 Tシャツはほとんどの種類品薄になってしまっていましたが"PERMANENT VACATION"を何とか購入。 パンフレットも買えたし良い思い出になりました。 #jimjarmusch #strangerthanparadise #yebisugardencinema (恵比寿ガーデンシネマwithユナイテッドシネマ) https://www.instagram.com/p/CokaWThpwFl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#jimjarmusch #strangerthanparadise #yebisugardencinema

[jaumesclub]

Un home 10, capítol 397. Emès en directe el dilluns, 23 de Gener de 2023, un dia molt especial perquè celebrem el dia mundial de la llibertat i dels community managers i expliquem les seves importants funcions en el món digital. A més, l'onada de fred apreta fort, i us parlem sobre com fer-hi front. Comentem una anècdota interessant sobre el triangle amorós entre Ariadna Gil, Vigo Mortensen i David Trueba, i recordem i homenatgem al gran Rutger Hauer. També destaquem els millors i pitjors vestits dels premis Gaudí, i felicitem i repassem les carreres dels actors Linda Blair, Geena Davis i Omar Sy, així com dels genials directors de cine David Lynch i Jim Jarmusch. També tenim un moment per recordar l'aniversari i la trista mort del pare del soul, Sam Cooke. No us perdeu l'oportunitat de conèixer les últimes notícies, anècdotes i molt més, en el millor programa diari en català de Twitch i Youtube: "Un home 10". #streamerscatalans #youtuberscatalans #encatalà #rutgerhauer #ariadnagil #vigomortensen #davidtrueba #dianelane #samcooke #davidlynch #jimjarmusch #lindablair (en Barcelona, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn-EuKRNVZV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#streamerscatalans #youtuberscatalans #encatalà #rutgerhauer #ariadnagil #vigomortensen #davidtrueba #dianelane #samcooke #davidlynch #jimjarmusch #lindablair

[princessalyssundertumblrcom]

Happy 70th Birthday to Jim Jarmusch born on this day in 1953 - Day 22 Drawing (of year NINE) *All art available for purchase $40 unless otherwise noted - commissions are temporarily closed* #adrawingaday #dailydrawing #quicksketch #sketch_daily #sketch #sketchbook #journal #art #artistsharing #artist #portrait #jimjarmusch #bornonthisday https://www.instagram.com/p/CnupV1tpjW8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#adrawingaday #dailydrawing #quicksketch #sketch_daily #sketch #sketchbook #journal #art #artistsharing #artist #portrait #jimjarmusch #bornonthisday

[arlindogrund]

Saint Laurent celebra diretores de cinema em sua nova campanha 

A Saint Laurent surpreendeu a todos ao anunciar as estrelas da campanha primavera/verão 2023. Unindo moda e cinema, a grife convocou os renomados diretores de cinema Pedro Almodóvar, David Cronenberg, Abel Ferrara e Jim Jarmusch para nos apresentar a nova coleção.  Intitulada ‘The Director’s Cut’, a campanha conta com fotos e fashion films em P&B, o que já se tornou uma característica marcante…

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#Abel Ferrara #agrund #arlindo grund #campanha #David Cronenberg #diretores de cinema #estilo #fashion #Jim Jarmusch #moda #moda feminina #moda masculina #Pedro Almodóvar #saint laurent #style #woman style

[gondomi]

RetrospecTIFF 2022 “Another classic from one of my favorite directors – it’s sad enough to make you laugh and funny enough to make you cry.” -Jim Jarmusch thanks to our programmers @ingostarz & @kon_kar with the precious support from Finish Film Foundation and Jaana Puskala @eggra @ngadhnjim @tiranafilmfest @tirana_film_institute https://www.instagram.com/p/Cipnpr-NoZTBKkktm1im9cRuD90G72zSuB2l3Q0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[awardseasonblog]

La #Lettonia 🇱🇻 ha scelto come proprio rappresentante per gli #Oscar2023 per la categoria #BestInternationalFilm #January di #ViestursKairiss vincitore del premio come miglior film internazionale all'ultimo Tribeca Film Festival. TRAMA: È il gennaio del 1991 e Jazis (Kārlis Arnolds Avots) aspira a diventare un regista, citando tra le sue ispirazioni le opere di Ingmar Bergman e Jim Jarmusch. Trova un'amante che la pensa allo stesso modo in Anna (Alise Danovska), che allo stesso modo sogna il successo artistico e in seguito accetta un posto di lavoro per il regista Juris Podnieks (Juhan Ulfsak). Tuttavia, il loro amore e la loro vita spensierata si bloccano quando la minaccia sovietica diventa una triste realtà, e la loro patria diventa un feroce campo di battaglia di sottomissione contro l'indipendenza. Il regista e drammaturgo veterano Viesturs Kairiss segna il suo settimo film narrativo con questa stimolante meditazione sull'intersezione tra arte, amore e guerra. TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocQgDRezyIU FESTIVAL: Best International Narrative Film (Tribeca Film Festival) OSCAR 2022: Lo scorso anno fu scelto The Pit di Dace Pūce che però non ottenne la candidatura. Nella storia degli Oscar la Lettonia non è mai riuscita ad entrare nella cinquina finale. #OscarsSubmission #95rdOscars #95rdAcademyAwards #Oscars2023 #InternationalFeatureFilm https://www.instagram.com/p/CiCRLvjMwFK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#lettonia #oscar2023 #bestinternationalfilm #january #viesturskairiss #oscarssubmission #95rdoscars #95rdacademyawards #oscars2023 #internationalfeaturefilm

[wildspringday]

winona ryder & jim jarmusch, 1991 via mubibrasil

#icons <3 #p: winona ryder #p: jim jarmusch #*mine #mine: edits #photography! #winona ryder #jim jarmusch

[chrismbr]

#Stan Only Lovers Left Alive, 2013. Typical Jim Jarmusch fare where nothing much happens while characters filled with ennui drift across the screen in exquisite dishevelment. Luckily both Tilda Swinton (duh) & Tom Hiddleston are very watchable, otherwise watch Dead Man instead. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgpz8KBhzBs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#stan

[autumnclouds09]

Para el anochecer, esta joya de Jim Jarmusch. #OnlyLoversLeftAlive #onlyloversleftalivemovie https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf2haBhOCTB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#onlyloversleftalive #onlyloversleftalivemovie

[josereyes26]

La autenticidad es incalculable, la originalidad es inexistente y, no te molestes en ocultar tu robo, celébralo si quieres.  Jim Jarmusch   #sigueme #siguemeytesigoseguro #instagood #fabuloso #active #amor #adorable #picoftheday #buenosdias #art #fotografie #familia #fyp #venezuela #like4likes #naturaleza #nature #instatime #fotografia #naturalhair #style #inspiracion #workout #bellezanatural #bellezaysalud #viajaresvivir #takemeback #viajar #sunset #travelphotography (at Guacara Estado Carabobo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CflmNQGOpRN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#sigueme #siguemeytesigoseguro #instagood #fabuloso #active #amor #adorable #picoftheday #buenosdias #art #fotografie #familia #fyp #venezuela #like4likes #naturaleza #nature #instatime #fotografia #naturalhair #style #inspiracion #workout #bellezanatural #bellezaysalud #viajaresvivir #takemeback #viajar #sunset #travelphotography

[ecsundance]

Blog #4

From the beginning of this course, my classmates and I have been discussing exactly what independent film is and what it means to us. We have watched various different indie films and documentaries while also reading a book titled, Indie: An American Film Culture by Michael Z. Newman, which is a book that details what aspects make an independent film. Indie is a term that is short for independent film and it has its own genre and culture surrounding it. 

The main aspects that make an indie film are three slogans; characters are emblems, form is a game, and when in doubt, read as anti-hollywood (Newman p.29). These are all various different aspects that define what an indie film is and how it can be spotted in the media. To break these down further I will talk about the first slogan which is that characters are emblems. Newman defines this slogan as characters becoming emblems of their social identities (Newman p.30). Newman emphasizes the importance of character and this can be seen in many of the films I watched in class and out of class. When looking at the second slogan, form is a game, the emphasis is placed on the things like camera angle and aesthetics (Newman p.34). The third and final slogan implies that indie/independent film “allows spectators to make sense of the most confounding avant-garde films by reasoning that they sometimes reject cinematic conventions as a way “to shock viewers out of their complacency”” (Newman p.42)  

In class we watched Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984), which was one of the first old indie films that I have watched and it was really interesting to view it with the mindset presented in the Indie textbook by Newman. I have decided to discuss this film because of how new it was for me. I had never seen a film like this so I was intrigued by the directorial choices. For this first film characters as emblems was extremely visible to me. This film follows a New Yorker whose Hungarian cousins come to visit him from her hometown. When looking at the characters I can easily break down each of the characters and determine how that added to the overarching plot. I think that this film is a perfect demonstration of what indie film actually is. It is shot in back and white and there is hardly any editing. The scenes are one continuous shot and then it cuts to black before the next scene begins. To me this is extremely anti-hollywood because it is something that I would not see in mainstream cinema. This can also be seen as form is a game because it approaches the film from an aesthetic perspective. Each of the characters also represent their social identities in ways that affect the actual plot. As an immigrant and a woman, Eva was treated extremely differently and because of that the film ended in the way it had. As men, Eddie and Willie 

Independent film rejects the way that mainstream culture would do things and I can relate this back to one of the films that I watched for my independent film reviews. On the Count of Three (Jerrod Carmichael, 2021), is a much newer indie film which is also why I thought I should bring it up since the film above is older. This film attacks a difficult topic from a comedic perspective which is something that is not done normally. It was interesting to be laughing at a film that revolves around two best friends having one more day before they end each other's lives in a suicide pact. The characters are also extreme representations of their social identities, accompanied by a lot of talk about their social identities. Val is a black man and Kevin is a white man and on the “last day together” they have conversations about their identities. Both of them are mentally ill and that also impacts their identities and how they see themselves in the world. 

Overall Newman does an excellent job explaining exactly what an independent film actually is and how it can be seen in movies. It is important to look at characters as emblems, and to understand form as a game that viewers actively play when watching movies. Anti-hollywood is also an important aspect because independent films go against what mainstream media does and that is something to look up to. I like to see things that go against the societal norms and that is exactly what 

Samantha Levy

#indie #indiefilm #film #independent film