This is going to be brief not
for any reason than I don’t really remember a whole hell of a lot. Jim Jarmusch
talked for 90 minutes and I’m hoping it shows you on You Tube (it was filmed)
because my telling you the stories isn’t Jarmusch doing it. (I’m sure Nate Hood
may chime into correct me since he was my wing man tonight)
The On Cinema talk is always a
blast at the New York Film Festival. The idea is to get
a director in have them pick important clips and let them talk for 90 minutes
and so clips of films they’ve chosen. This year it as Jim Jarmusch who
tried to figure out what clips to use- maybe all films from 1947, or all
westerns from 1947 or films from Japan in 1967, or films from Japan in 1967
with female leads...
He spun that off in any weird
directions talking about all sorts of things and even discussing a paired clip
from John Boorman’s POINT BLANK with Buster Keaton’s THE NAVIGATOR. This
allowed Jarmusch to gush about Keaton.
There was lots of name
dropping, talking about hanging out with Nicholas Ray and especially Samuel
Fuller. He even explained the whiplash an audience once got listening to him
interview Martin Scorsese as they went from Marty’s fast pace speech to
Jarmusch’s slow cadence.
I don’t remember much else, at
least to reconstruct narrative, but it ended with a clip from SWORD OF DOOM and
Jarmusch telling how he used the film to quit smoking. He essentially stayed
alone in his house and watched the film several times a day for two weeks to
get over the craving.
It was a fun evening. I can’t
wait for next year’s installment
And
Nate and I met a lovely couple from Canberra, Australia who stumbled on the
festival and are having a blast seeing films. So far they did GIMME DANGER and
the Jarmusch talk. Next up maybe NERUDA. If you see them wandering the halls do
stop and say hi, they are lovely people.
And if
you are reading this the record shop I was thinking about was House of Oldies
at 35 Carmine St. Also try Bleecker Street Records which moved to 188 West 4th
Street, which is a couple of blocks away.
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