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HBD! JLG
Jean-Luc Godard celebrated his 87th birthday on December 3 and even though I read a handful of articles and re-tweeted tweet I saw about the master I’m only getting around to mentioning it here. Maybe I was slow to this task because GODARD seems too massive for a quick mention in a blog post. He’s [...]
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Tagged 3D, 87th birthday, Cannes, December 3, Goodbye to Language, Jean-Luc Godard, John Cassavetes, Nashville, Oliver Stone, Pierrot Le Feu
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Mystery Train at 25
It’s hard to believe, but Jim Jarmusch’s film Mystery Train debuted at Cannes 25 years ago in the spring of 1989. The first of the director’s anthology films, Mystery is also the first film Jarmusch shot in color. The film features three separate but interconnected stories about foreigners who find themselves crossing paths at the [...]
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Tagged Arcade Hotel, Cannes, Elvis Presley, Jim Jarmusch, Joe Strummer, Memphis, Mystery Train, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Steve Buscemi, Tennessee
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