To be honest, never once have I wondered how awesome it would be to stumble upon a Jim Jarmusch collection. You see, a blinding light shone through the weirdly well-lit corridors of Parsons Complex when my eyes caught sight of the Herzog collection. There were fairies and elves prancing everywhere, tossing chocolate-flavoured gummy bears and [...]
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The collected works of Jim Jarmusch
Posted in film, tagged Bill Murray, Broken Flowers, Coffee And Cigarettes, Down By Law, Elvis Presley, Ethiopian jazz, Gena Rowlands, Jarmusch’s debut, Jeffrey Wright, jim jarmusch, Jim Jarmusch collection, Joe Strummer, John Lurie, Lounge Lizards, Matti Pellonpää, Mystery Train, Neil Young and the Crazy Horse Band, Night On Earth, Permanent Vacation, Rain Dogs, Richard Edson, Roberto Benigni, Rufus Thomas, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Sonic Youth, steve buscemi, Stranger Than Paradise, Tom Waits, wes anderson, Woody Allen, Year Of The Horse on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Movie review: Gigantic Indians, meth labs and new age butchers
Posted in film, tagged Brittany Murphy, Clive Bakers, Dead Man, High Fidelity, Jake Black, Jason Schwartzman, jim jarmusch, John Cusak, John Leguizamo, johnny depp, Johnny Skidmarks, Jonas Akerlund’s Spun, Lance Henriksen, Mena Suvari, mickey rourke, Midnight Meat Train, Requiem For A Dream, Ryuhei Kitamura, Spun, The 13th Floor Elevators, Trainspotting, Vinnie Jones, wes anderson on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since the influx of new music is killing time, I have had to delay posting the weekend movie reviews. I have got three Werner Herzog films and a couple of others by Jim Jarmusch left to watch, so next Monday I would be posting the complete reviews of both DVD box sets.
Dead Man: Jim Jarmusch [...]
Weekend ‘happy without pills’ message
Posted in film, tagged Aqua Team Hunger Force, Collector’s Edition, DVD reviews, jim jarmusch, Old Parsons Complex Chennai, Space Ghost Coast To Coast, upcoming movie reviews, werner herzog on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My tri-weekly trips to the Rainbow DVD shop at Old Parsons Complex have yielded many sighs of delirious satisfaction. Like the time I got my hands on the Aqua Team Hunger Force feature film (No seriously, it is at a level of awesome that one would normally associate with Space Ghost Coast To Coast). Or [...]
Movie review: Sadness, surreal picnics and funny games
Posted in film, tagged haneke, happiness, jim jarmusch, naomi watts, peter weir, picnic hanging rock, tim roth, todd solondz on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Happiness
Director Todd Solondz gets no points for subtle irony. His 1998 effort Happiness blatantly involves characters that are anything but happy. A pedophile lecturing his son on sex? Check. A desperate woman constantly on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Check. A homophobic father coming to terms with the sexual abuse of his gay son? [...]
