Jim Jarmusch Retrospective / Night Owl Cinema
STRANGER THAN PARADISE
Friday, September 6th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
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 (John Lurie), his pal Eddie (Richard
Edson), and his visiting sixteen-year-old cousin, Eva (Eszter Balint), 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. Structured as a series of master-shot vignettes etched in black and
white by cinematographer Tom DiCillo, Stranger Than Paradise is
a nonchalant masterpiece of deadpan comedy and perfectly calibrated minimalism. (USA, 1984, 89 mins, English | Dir. Jim
Jarmusch)
