Guest post by Kristian Segerberg. There is a certain beauty in not knowing what life has in store for us. Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch touches upon similar ideas in his earlier films which depict foreigners traveling in novel places and exploring the unfamiliar. In his 1989 film, Mystery Train, Jarmusch shows a typical night in Memphis… Read more »
“Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.” – William Blake, “Proverbs of Hell” c. 1793 Many critics and commentators of Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, an artfully grim, post-classical “acid western” from 1995, have casually noted its relationship with the work of William Blake (1757-1827), both because the film’s main character,… Read more »
“A man got to have a code.” — Omar Little from The Wire If there’s one contribution to cinema that Jean-Pierre Melville is most certainly “guilty” of, it would be his characters. Stoic anti-heroes, existential killers, and methodical men seem to pop up as the protagonists in so many of his films. It was the director’s… Read more »