Night on Earth

(1991)

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Jim Jarmusch 's deadpan comedy-of-the-night is a collection of five vignettes taking place in the enclosed space of a cab ride, each occurring simultaneously in five different cities and five different time zones -- Los Angeles, New York City, Paris,... ... Full Article

Winona Ryder turns in a great performance as one of the cabbies in 'Night on Earth.' French actress Béatrice Dalle is part of the international cast of the 1991 comedy 'Night on Earth,' a story of five cab rides in... ... Full Article

Jim Jarmusch's "Night on Earth" is a collection of five sketches set simultaneously in five different cities -- New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome and Helsinki -- during the same evening. ... Full Article

"Night on Earth" sounds better than it turns out to be.Starting at dusk in Los Angeles, Jim Jarmusch's eastward-ho comedy follows the overnight travails of cabbies -- and their passengers -- in New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki. ... Full Article

Speeding across space and time zones, Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth touches down for five t?te-?-taxis in L.A., New York, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki. The locales were chosen partly because of the elegant symmetry inherent in beginning in L.A. at... ... Full Article

Riding around five shaded cityscapes in four different countries, Jim Jarmusch's nocturnal delight Night on Earth has the esteem of being the auteur's most accessible exercise to date while also being his least seen. ... Full Article

Perhaps best known for his quirky comic roles in Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law and Night on Earth, Benigni wears the director/writer/actor hats this time around in an Italian comedy that is too predictably amusing and sweet for its own... ... Full Article

Stranger Than Paradise [Buy It!](Criterion) Night On Earth [Buy It!](Criterion) In 1980, film-school dropout Jim Jarmusch released the short, low-budget feature Permanent Vacation . ... Full Article