Stranger than paradise

Author

Jim Jarmusch

Call Number

• BLU-RAY COMEDY (CEN)

Edition

Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark, Tom DiCillo, Sara Driver.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2019]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (89 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)

Audience

MPAA rating: R.

Summary

"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, his pal Eddie, and his visiting sixteen-year-old cousin, Eva, 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."--Container.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1984.

Special features: High-definition digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; audio commentary from 1996 featuring Jarmusch and actor Richard Edson ; Permanent vacation (1980), Jarmushch's seventy-five-minute, color feature debut, presented in a high-definition digital restoration supervised by the director ; Kino '84: Jim Jarmusch, a 1984 German television program featuring interviews with cast and crew members from Stranger than paradise and Permanent vacation ; Some days in January 1984, a behind-the-scenes Super 8 film by Tom Jarmusch ; U.S. and Japanese trailers.