I have finally re-vamped the pages on this blog: “Pyramid” is some kind of about page, you will see what I mean; “Links” is deleted now; “Places” is what originally was “Forums” since I barely are on forums anymore. Harr, I am so proud of myself XD Now onto my huge backlog of film reviews:
(By the way, have I ever mentioned what a pain backlogs are? My list of manga series I have to read exceeds two A4 pages. I won’t even talk about books…)
Stranger than Paradise
The great thing or the problem with “Stranger than Paradise” is that it is a typical Jim Jarmusch film. Actually I only realized that there are “typical” and “atypical” Jarmusch films while watching this film – Ghost Dog and Coffee & Cigarettes are rather atypical, I think that Night on Earth is too overtly funny to be a typical Jarmusch too; the others (Stranger than Paradise, Permanent Vacation, Dead Man, Broken Flowers) are the rather typical ones. So while watching “Stranger than Paradise”, I always had in mind that it is a Jarmusch film and can’t help but see it as a piece of a bigger work (Jarmusch’s oeuvre, so to say).
However, it’s those jarmuschesque elements that make the film so gorgeous: The slow pace creating a strong atmosphere, the nonsensensical talk about trivial matters, the beauty of triviality and of course the subtle humour (“Don’t speak hungarian with me!” Haha XD). It’s also the hilarious and smart ending that made the film so great: My favourite scene obviously was the Deus-ex-machina scene with the black drug dealer, ahaha, that was so good!
Now my expectations for “Down by Law” are even much higher ^^;;; But I have heard from many voices that it’s funny and good, so I’m quite positive.