In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles upon a fleeing charlatan girl; and a comical trio of accidental thieves looking for a place to hide.
Youki Kudoh Masatoshi Nagase Screamin' Jay Hawkins Cinqué Lee Nicoletta Braschi Elizabeth Bracco Joe Strummer Rick Aviles Steve Buscemi Tom Noonan Rufus Thomas Tom Waits Jodie Markell William Hoch Pat Hoch Joshua Elvis Hoch Reginald Freeman Beverly Prye Sy Richardson Stephen Jones Lowell Roberts Sara Driver Richard Boes Darryl Daniel Calvin Brown Jim Stark Elan Yaari Vondie Curtis-Hall Royale Johnson Show All…
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One Night in Memphis
(i will be real with you, i think jim jarmusch is my favorite director)
A few notes:
- My sequencing game today was TIGHT. Three five-star movies, three movies about one long night in a specific place, three movies with an emphasis on music, and two of them have an all-night radio leitmotif (Wolfman Jack in American Graffiti, and Tom Waits in this).
- I don't know if he'd ever admit even to watching a Jarmusch movie, but I see a lot of stuff Tarantino would later use in his movies: The nestled chronological structure, the protracted discussions of pop culture (the scene about Lost In Space could be a Tarantino joint), the obsession with rockabilly, Elvis' ghost, and casting Steve Buscemi.
- On the Criterion Blu-ray, Screamin' Jay Hawkins' red suit and tie…
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I absolutely adore how Jarmusch turns around the idea of Checkov's gun cinematically by letting it go off in the first and second act before finally showing it in the third but simultaneously following the exact idea of Checkov's gun. That's probably one of the smartest jokes I've seen in any film in a long, long while.
As for the rest of the film, it is Jarmusch through and through. It moves along like a small, rippling river and in all of its effortless cool, it never loses sight of what it wants to tell. In this case, it's a careful dissection of America with what appears to be one of…
i feel like i could just like watch this at any time and just vibe out. it’s just so soothing, yanno?
"nothing is original. steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. if you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic." - jim jarmusch
Films like this one make me feel complete, films where nothing happens, and you just get to see a certain amount of time of someone’s life and that’s it, I think this is my favorite genre
was starting to get bored during the third act so i convinced myself steve buscemi was hot just to keep myself interested 😌
Mitzuko: "Was that a gun?"
Jun: "Probably. This is America."
I've got to hand it to writer-director Jim Jarmusch. He never fails to surprise me. This film is told as three separate but intertwined stories: "Far from Yokohama," "A Ghost" and "Lost in Space." Although a train plays a key role in the film, the linking elements are a seedy hotel, a radio DJ playing Elvis Presley's version of "Blue Moon" and a single gunshot heard early one morning.
I'm not sure how others might react to the first story, which involves two Japanese tourists, Jun (Masatoshi Nagase) and Mitzuko (Yûki Kudô), looking to connect with the Memphis vibe. I am fluent in Japanese and can attest to the ultra…
"Over there in China, they's all wantin' to eat macaroni and cheese. Don't you think that's kinda odd, what with all the Chinese food they got?"
Nicoletta Braschi is carrying around a copy of Orlando furioso, a sprawling epic poem in which (among a great many other things) a warrior relentlessly pursues a possibly insane princess who does not love him, only to learn that love is in itself a kind of madness. this is another of Jarmusch's triptychs of authenticity and belonging, but i wonder if it isn't also a personal, somewhat apologetic confrontation of sorts with his own obsessive love of the esoterica his characters simultaneously seek and embody.
