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Entries Tagged as 'Jim Jarmusch'

Broken Flowers (2005, Jim Jarmusch)

April 3rd, 2007 1 Comment

If I had any foresight, I would have realized Broken Flowers wasn’t going to end well. Actually, most of the film is just a ruse to disguise that fact. Instead of thinking about how the film was going to turn out, I spent all my time marveling at Jarmusch. His composition, his dialogue, everything, just […]

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999, Jim Jarmusch)

March 26th, 2007 1 Comment

I’m having a hard time thinking of something to say about Ghost Dog. It’s perfect. Jarmusch doesn’t just do a bunch of good things or a bunch of right things. Every single thing he does is perfect. And Ghost Dog is perfect pretty early on too–in the first five or ten minutes, I was completely […]