Stranger Than Paradise

In fact before I watched this movie, I had not think that this movie will be my favorite.I DO NOT remember any movie which tells us a story that two men and a girl spend many time but they never... Full review

"Stranger than Paradise" (1984): Jim Jarmusch's first film. Often listed as a "comedy" – and yes, I suppose there ARE a few oddly funny moments – for the most part I find it an intensely bleak film, empty of almost... Full review

I just finished watching Stranger Than Paradise on DVD - the first time I'd seen it since its year of release. I'd always recalled the film with fondness, although I could never remember why I liked it. Several years after... Full review

Stranger Than Paradise, which put filmmaker Jim Jarmusch on 'the map' in the small but superlative crop of independent filmmakers of the eighties (he was the first, then came the Coen Brothers, then Spike Lee, and then culminating in the... Full review

Jarmusch was never much of a guy to dip in the mainstream; "Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai" is about as Hollywood as you're going to get from him. His recent "Coffee and Cigarettes" might have alluded to his roots... Full review

Yes, it's slow...yes, it's in black and white with minimal sets...and yes the acting is somewhat flat, but I still like this movie a lot!Perhaps it's Eva's dryness and her deadpan quality as she comes to the fabulous USA for... Full review

Watched for the second time the other night, and was struck how formal this really is. Every scene is a single take, some static, some with very stylized camera movement (static shot up the street to an approaching car; pick... Full review

An excellent example of why independent films are so invaluable, `Stranger Than Paradise,' written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, is a bare-bones production that never would have found the light of day in the mainstream. Essentially a character study, the... Full review

Reading over the comments so far, it seems that most people think this film is great, with a rare few criticizing it for being a boring 'student-film'.People, this is for sure not a film for those who've been brutalized by... Full review

Odd and inspiring. This film rings true with rich detail in its depictions of utter loneliness. Smoking many Chesterfields, watching television, playing solitaire, visiting Aunt Lottie, sightseeing at Lake Erie (for God's sake). It alters from tragic to comic from... Full review

Yeah, Barbara Worth is a pretty good movie of a lame book. A Soviet film called Bed and Sofa is another real surprise, kind of a feminist comedy, I've also always suspected that it was one of the inspirations for Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise. ... Full Review

Yeah, Barbara Worth is a pretty good movie of a lame book. A Soviet film called Bed and Sofa is another real surprise, kind of a feminist comedy, I've also always suspected that it was one of the inspirations for Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise. ... Full Review

again, and it always brings me great pleasure..... ... Full Review

Stranger Than Paradise is a sedate and captivating antidote to bombastic contemporary Hollywood cinema.....The earlier film Permanent Vacation lacks the charm and accessibility of Stranger Than Paradise yet clearly demonstrates an auteur developing his style..... ... Full Review

The most evocative description of the film's winning if incongruous tone comes from Jarmusch himself, who in the original press kit characterized it as "a neo-realistic black comedy in the style of an imaginary East European director obsessed with Ozu and 'The Honeymooners. ... Full Review

W ill hip audiences who packed the house at the Charles for "Bruno" show up for a Korean film that's actually younger in spirit? Will older art-house audiences support an oddball comedy simply because it's novel entertainment? ... Full Article

First of all, this black and white classic is not for everyone. Some of you won't get that there is nothing to get in Stranger than Paradise. ... Full Article

Video by Paul Seyb My eyebrows soared north when my friend Charlie suggested a trip to Brixton for a night of "mental gipsy-klezmer hooliganism". I didn't have a clue what that meant but, more importantly, where in Brixton would they... ... Full Article

Stranger Than Paradise (1984) While still just a speck on the festival circuit, the 1985 Sundance Film Festival introduced two major filmmaking forces in its competition section: The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, who won the Grand Prize for their... ... Full Article

While still just a speck on the festival circuit, the 1985 Sundance Film Festival introduced two major filmmaking forces in its competition section: The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, who won the Grand Prize for their debut feature Blood Simple... ... Full Article

When it was first released in 1984, Jim Jarmusch's tale of three lost souls going nowhere was a revelation a dry-as-the-desert revelation in black and white, or rather gray and lighter gray. ... Full Article