Tag Archives: Jim Jarmusch

Father Mother Sister Brother review — Families untied

March 1, 2026 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Jim Jarmusch | 110 min | ▲▲▲ | on VOD This is more Night On Earth than, say, Paterson. We’re not getting the quirky intensity of Down By Law or the dark grandeur of Only Lovers Left Alive, probably my favourite of all Jarmusch's work. Father Mother Sister Brother may be a… Read More

Carbon Arc Review: Fallen Leaves

November 22, 2023 flawintheiris

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen. An earlier version of this review appeared during my coverage of the 2023 Atlantic International Film Festival. Written and Directed by Aki Kaurismäki | 81 min | Carbon Arc Cinema Since the early 1980s… Read More

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed review — Addiction, activism, and art

February 18, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Laura Poitras | 122 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | VOD and Digital It's not every day you see a documentary that does as good a job as this one balancing a dual narrative over the course of two hours. A fellow cinepanion said she'd happily spend a few more hours with the characters here,… Read More

The Dead Don’t Die review — Zombie picture raises dead, laughs

June 20, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Jim Jarmusch | 104 min | VOD Even the forever cool and laid-back Jim Jarmusch—whose previous work includes Down By Law, Night On Earth, Dead Man, Only Lovers Left Alive, and Paterson—gets angry. You can feel him seething, and maybe even just a bit of his bitterness in the aftertaste of… Read More

#AFF2016 — The Rehearsal, Paterson, Below Her Mouth reviews

September 22, 2016 flawintheiris

The Rehearsal Directed by Alison Maclean | Written by Maclean and Emily Perkins, adapting the novel by Eleanor Catton | 102 min The Rehearsal is an unexpected pleasure, a New Zealand picture about drama school students that goes interesting places. Stanley (James Rolleston) is 18 and one of those students. He's a little awkward, but the classes… Read More

Only Lovers Left Alive review

May 21, 2014 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch Ah, the welcome return of the godfather of American indie film. It's a real delight to see something new from Jarmusch. For those who don't know his stuff, he's best known for languid, atmospheric features low on plot but high on characters skirting the margins of society. His films include Stranger Than… Read More

Blockbuster Blues 2014: The Good and The Grim Prospects for This Season at The Movies

May 14, 2014 flawintheiris

This summer's blockbuster selection looks pretty dire, I gotta say. In April we had Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Transcendence. This month we've got The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Godzilla and X-Men: Days of Future Past. These are big-budget science fiction and fantasy films, highly anticipated, which make all in the Nerd Nation very happy—and me too. But the first three are… Read More

Tom Waits on screen

April 9, 2012 flawintheiris

"And there's a difference between 'I do some acting' and 'I'm an actor.'" is what Tom Waits told Pitchfork back in 2006. "People don't really trust people to do two things well." Waits doesn't think of himself an actor, which is fine. Most of the roles he's been cast in he plays some variation of… Read More