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06/24/06
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
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Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 16 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Synopsis: Beginning in New York City and ending up in Florida, Jim Jarmusch's STRANGER THAN PARADISE is a highly original comedy that has greatly influenced a new generation of filmmakers (most notably, Kevin Smith and Finland's Aki Kourismaki). Willie (John Lurie) is annoyed to learn that his... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: John Lurie, Richard Edson, Eszter Balint, Cecilla Stark
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07/22/08
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Jarmusch constructs from basic ingredients a complex of narrative symmetry and existential ennui pointing to something far more resonant than the sum of its parts.
05/13/08
... like a French New wave film by way of Bela Tarr, directed with a hipster American comic sensibility and an outsider's fascination with the details of the everyday.
10/15/07
the American Dream inverted, that its characters are carefree is a by-product not of sharing in the Dream, but of dealing with life on the margins.
10/10/07
This austere, minimalist comedy put NY's East Village and Jim Jarmusch on the map, displaying unique sensibility and aesthetics (single long shots). Though only his second work, it's still Jarmusch's best picture--by far.
12/02/06
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05/20/03
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Its characters’ vacant aspirations are equated by Stranger Than Paradise’s lack of conventional purpose – this is the film’s idiosyncratic strength.
02/04/03
The movie is not about plot. It is about mood, and to a lesser extent about character.
02/28/02
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