With this breakout film, Jim Jarmusch established himself as one of the most exciting voices in the burgeoning independent-film scene, a road-movie poet with an affinity for Americana at its most offbeat. Jarmusch follows rootless Hungarian émigré Willie (John Lurie), his pal Eddie (Richard Edson), and his visiting sixteen-year-old cousin, Eva (Eszter Balint), as they drift from New York’s Lower East Side to the snowy expanses of Lake Erie and the drab beaches of Florida, always managing to make the least of wherever they end up. Structured as a series of master-shot vignettes etched in black and white by cinematographer Tom DiCillo,Stranger Than Paradiseis a nonchalant masterpiece of deadpan comedy and perfectly calibrated minimalism.
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FILM INFO
United States
1984
89 minutes
Black & White
1.78:1
English
Spine #400
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
High-definition digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Audio commentary from 1996 featuring Jarmusch and actor Richard Edson
Permanent Vacation(1980), Jarmusch’s seventy-five-minute, color feature debut, presented in a high-definition digital restoration supervised by the director
Kino ’84: Jim Jarmusch,a 1984 German television program featuring interviews with cast and crew members fromStranger Than ParadiseandPermanent Vacation
Some Days in January 1984,a behind-the-scenes Super 8 film by Tom Jarmusch
U.S. and Japanese trailers
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: Jarmusch’s 1984 “Some Notes onStrangerThan Paradise,” critics Geoff Andrew and J. Hoberman onStranger Than Paradise,and author and critic Luc Sante onPermanent Vacation
Cover by Eric Skillman
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With this breakout film, Jim Jarmusch established himself as one of the most exciting voices in the burgeoning independent-film scene, a road-movie poet with an affinity for Americana at its most offbeat. Jarmusch follows rootless Hungarian émigré Willie (John Lurie), his pal Eddie (Richard Edson), and his visiting sixteen-year-old cousin, Eva (Eszter Balint), as they drift from New York’s Lower East Side to the snowy expanses of Lake Erie and the drab beaches of Florida, always managing to make the least of wherever they end up. Structured as a series of master-shot vignettes etched in black and white by cinematographer Tom DiCillo,Stranger Than Paradiseis a nonchalant masterpiece of deadpan comedy and perfectly calibrated minimalism.
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FILM INFO
United States
1984
89 minutes
Black & White
1.78:1
English
Spine #400
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
High-definition digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Audio commentary from 1996 featuring Jarmusch and actor Richard Edson
Permanent Vacation(1980), Jarmusch’s seventy-five-minute, color feature debut, presented in a high-definition digital restoration supervised by the director
Kino ’84: Jim Jarmusch,a 1984 German television program featuring interviews with cast and crew members fromStranger Than ParadiseandPermanent Vacation
Some Days in January 1984,a behind-the-scenes Super 8 film by Tom Jarmusch
U.S. and Japanese trailers
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: Jarmusch’s 1984 “Some Notes onStrangerThan Paradise,” critics Geoff Andrew and J. Hoberman onStranger Than Paradise,and author and critic Luc Sante onPermanent Vacation
Cover by Eric Skillman
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With this breakout film, Jim Jarmusch established himself as one of the most exciting voices in the burgeoning independent-film scene, a road-movie poet with an affinity for Americana at its most offbeat. Jarmusch follows rootless Hungarian émigré Willie (John Lurie), his pal Eddie (Richard Edson), and his visiting sixteen-year-old cousin, Eva (Eszter Balint), as they drift from New York’s Lower East Side to the snowy expanses of Lake Erie and the drab beaches of Florida, always managing to make the least of wherever they end up. Structured as a series of master-shot vignettes etched in black and white by cinematographer Tom DiCillo,Stranger Than Paradiseis a nonchalant masterpiece of deadpan comedy and perfectly calibrated minimalism.
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FILM INFO
United States
1984
89 minutes
Black & White
1.78:1
English
Spine #400
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
High-definition digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Audio commentary from 1996 featuring Jarmusch and actor Richard Edson
Permanent Vacation(1980), Jarmusch’s seventy-five-minute, color feature debut, presented in a high-definition digital restoration supervised by the director
Kino ’84: Jim Jarmusch,a 1984 German television program featuring interviews with cast and crew members fromStranger Than ParadiseandPermanent Vacation
Some Days in January 1984,a behind-the-scenes Super 8 film by Tom Jarmusch
U.S. and Japanese trailers
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: Jarmusch’s 1984 “Some Notes onStrangerThan Paradise,” critics Geoff Andrew and J. Hoberman onStranger Than Paradise,and author and critic Luc Sante onPermanent Vacation
