Down by Law

I have watched this film at least 20 times. It is just brilliant. It really works on many different levels. If you have never seen this - great- just stick with it - and wait for a great payoff ending.... Full review

but I liked this film. It represents one of the more creative phases of filmmaking that has come and gone. I suppose making what it did does not make a case for repeated efforts in the same genre. I think it... Full review

Of all the Jarmusch movies I've seen (as of March 2006), this was by far the best. The 3 principal characters and their tale were made for black and white and for Tom Waits's music. Unlike Stranger Than Paradise, this film... Full review

This isn't your normal prison movie, nor by any stretch your normal American comedy. Make no mistake if your favourite movies are Hollywood by numbers, you will be confused and bored by this great piece of cinema. Tom waits stars as... Full review

I first saw Down By Law when it first came out, and loved it. I watched it again recently, and it really hasn't aged at all. In fact, it has gotten even better. I'm not sure there's another movie like it... Full review

hilarious. I don't know why. don't ask me why. three people are lost in a swamp. it is an existential masterpiece. in black and white. I would say just that but there is a minimum on these review lengths. the photography... Full review

While his later and more acclaimed works such 'Night on Earth' and 'Dead Man' may well be better films, this is the one that catapulted Jim Jarmusch to the forefront of obscure American cinema in the 1980's, and aside from that... Full review

One thing that I have always liked about Jim Jarmusch is that a lot of times he seems to use people whom you've either never heard of, or wouldn't expect to see acting in a film. His 1986 film "Down by... Full review

This movie was a total surprise to me. I'm sure it's very famous, but somehow had never seen it before. From the beginning scenes, I was expecting a gritty low life, wind up in the gutter, down and out kind of... Full review

If you're in for an alternative and quality film, that's for you. If you only like standard happy ending Holly-style movies, that's not for you... so don't even bother watching it or posting a review. Explosive Roberto Benigni, cool Tom Waits... Full review

The film is heartbreakingly funny. Jarmusch shows how much he loves classic American films in Down by Law. Of special note are a few scenes that Lurie called the best acting he'd done at the time but that didn't make it into the film. ... Full Review

if we hadn't grown to like these odd characters so much.....its grim environment doesn't get us down.... ... Full Review

Somehow or other, he winds up in the arms of gorgeous Italian girl Nicoletta Braschi -- and is even able to provide new clothes and escape routes for his astonished comrades! Tired and hungry, they separate to search for food: Waits goes one way, Lurie another, and the frightened Benigni decides to risk stepping into a ramshackle diner. ... Full Review

escape routes for his astonished comrades!....Jim Jarmusch follows his groundbreaking Stranger Than Paradise with another rambling, character-driven film with a twisted sense of humor..... ... Full Review

The former is packed with satisfying dialogue, making it very easy to watch and enjoy Down By Law , while the latter reveals the rewards of relaxing and letting the camera take its time. Waits and Lurie are equally excellent, both lethargic slacker types but from a radically different mould. ... Full Review

The Spears' Chris Barrows (vocals), Sam Williams (guitar), Gary Strickland (bass) and Rob Rampy (drums) are all nationally known lynchpins in the hardcore punk scene - Williams is in Down by Law , Strickland was in Hated Youth , Barrows... ... Full Article

'It's a sad and beautiful world," Roberto Benigni says in Jim Jarmusch's '80s indie classic, Down by Law . And Iranian American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani says it all over again, with wisdom and clarity, in Goodbye Solo . ... Full Article

Has got to be "Down by Law." If you like Tom Waits, you'll like it. Yes, it is slow, yes it is moody. It is filmed in b&w and has a good story to it. ... Full Article

One of the new Criterion Blu-ray Disc titles coming later this year won't be chosen by the publisher. Instead, Criterion has joined forces with Amazon.com to create a promotion where our vote will determine the movie ultimately selected. ... Full Article

It's guilt-inducing to fall in love with a septuagenarian's album of jazz standards. It makes you feel like a Republican, even if the septuagenarian helped pioneer brave, odd, ragged New Orleans R&B back in the early '60s. ... Full Article

Following his departure from All after the group's first two albums under that name, vocalist/guitarist Dave Smalley (also formerly of Dag Nasty) put together Down By Law in 1991 with ex-Clawhammer guitarist Chris Bagarozzi and the former Chemical People rhythm... ... Full Article