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...black, alone but not lonely, pursuing a treacherous trade, doing business with lethal idiots who understand his methods but not his magic. He is Ghost Dog, a philosophical black gunman who runs afoul of the mobsters who employ him in Jim Jarmusch's niftily quirky Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. And yes, he is Jarmusch as well--a filmmaker who, since his 1984 Stranger Than Paradise, has pretty much defined the spirit of the truly independent American film. Ghost Dog is talking about himself and his Mafia contact, but he might be speaking of Jarmusch when he says...
...blast out of film school at 19 and tell someone, 'Hand me a million bucks and I'm going to make a work of genius,'" she says. "First I had to prove myself to myself. Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing." Krueger, now 39, toiled for indie gurus Jim Jarmusch and Abel Ferrara, then found salvation at the Sundance lab. "They start treating you like a filmmaker, and you just say, 'Whoa, I can make my movie.'" On Manny, she says she took the $500,000 budget "way too much to heart. I cut scenes while we were shooting because...
...titles that generates an annual $35 million in cash flow, but it scored its first cult hit with 1998's dark fantasy Pi. Coming are more genre films, including Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate, as well as works from directors Atom Egoyan, Steven Soderbergh and Jim Jarmusch...
...reaches its apotheosis with Peckinpah's rendering of Jim Thompson. Throw in the coolest white man ever (Steve McQueen) and you've got a scorcher. Rear Window (1954). Well, actually, the whole Hitchcock canon, actually, but my pick is Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly. Down By Law (1986). Jim Jarmusch's extended character study (incorporating a few digs at Hollywood convention) is probably the funniest American movie ever made. Rebel Without a Cause (1955). The cinematic codification of the obsession with youth that dominated postwar American pop culture. Platoon (1986). Oliver Stone takes us to the heart of the battle...
...Jarmusch pays a worthy tribute to Neil Young & Crazy Horse by mounting an engrossing collage of biography, interviews and concert footage that's bound to satisfy even die-hard Neil Young fans. Through it all, he also evokes the unusual sense of family that ties the band together, as well as the not-so-obvious connection between his own art and theirs. The result is a fine, occasionally brilliant synergy of music and film...