STRANGER THAN PARADISE

A low-budget breakout film that wowed critics and audiences on its initial release, Stranger than Paradise would prove to be a semin al film in the new American independent cinema movement and establish its director, Jim Jarmusch, as a hip, cult auteur. Taking insp iration from 1960s underground filmmaking, international art cinema, genre cinema, and punk culture, Jarmusch's film provides a brid ge between midnight movie features and a new mode of quirky, offbeat independent filmmaking. This book probes the film's production history, ...[Read more]