After that, he comes back several times, hesitates, and leaves. Mystery Train is a 1989 independent anthology film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and set in Memphis, Tennessee.The film is a triptych of stories involving foreign protagonists, unfolding over the course of the same night. [25] The "Memphis Version", titled Twins, starred bickering twins Cinqué and Joie Lee alongside Steve Buscemi as an obtuse waiter who expounds his theory of Elvis having an evil twin to a hostile reception. 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Critical reaction was overwhelmingly positive, with reviewers praising the structure, humor, and characters of the film, though there was criticism that the director had not been sufficiently adventurous. Cate is made to feel awkward and uncomfortable by Shelly's constant envious remarks about how she perceives Cate's life and attitude. Steve Coogan still remains evasive, lightening up only when an attractive female fan recognizes him. Coffee and Cigarettes is the title of three short films and a 2003 anthology film by independent film director Jim Jarmusch. Murray requests that GZA and RZA keep his identity secret, while GZA and RZA inform Murray about nontraditional methods to relieve his smoker's hack. Iggy Pop meeting Tom Waits; Cate Blanchett (in both roles) having a reunion with an envious cousin; Alfred Molina taking tea with Steve Coogan in Hollywood". Upset after losing his job and his girlfriend, Johnny – called Elvis, much to his chagrin – drunkenly brandishes a gun in a bar before leaving with his friend Will Robinson and his ex-girlfriend's brother, Charlie, who believes Johnny to be his brother-in-law. "Far from Yokohama" features a Japanese couple (Youki Kudoh and Masatoshi Nagase) on a cultural pilgrimage, "A Ghost" focuses on an Italian widow (Nicoletta Braschi) stranded in the city overnight, and "Lost in Space" follows the misadventures of a newly single and unemployed Englishman (Joe Strummer) and his reluctant companions (Rick Aviles and Steve Buscemi). Jarmusch wrote the script for the film under the working title "One Night in Memphis",[4] without ever having been to the southern city. [34], Like Jarmusch's previous films, Mystery Train enjoyed a warm reception from critics. After Dee Dee finally goes to sleep, Luisa is visited by an apparition of Elvis Presley. Roberto does not understand anything he says but is entertained to listen. (Coogan offers Molina a French cigarette, but Molina saves his for later.) He later tries to make up excuses to keep from ever having to hear from Alfred Molina again, and then clumsily tries to reverse this when he overhears Molina get a call from good friend Spike Jonze. [6] The play – unrelated to Elvis or Memphis – concerned a constantly argumentative young couple, one of whom gradually comes to realize that their fighting is a unifying force in the relationship. Mystery Train is a 1989 independent anthology film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and set in Memphis, Tennessee. [1][32], Mystery Train was released on DVD on March 28, 2000 with an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and Dolby Digital 5.1/2 surround sound. Cinematographer Robby Müller and musician John Lurie were among the many contributors who had been involved in earlier Jarmusch projects and returned to work on the film. [19] He praised Jarmusch's development as a screenwriter – citing the restrained dialogue, humor and subtlety of the narrative and the careful construction of the plot – and the performances he elicited from the ensemble cast. It could be assumed that he has a gambling problem but to him it appears to be a non-issue. Alex Descas and Isaach De Bankolé are a couple of friends who meet and talk over some coffee and cigarettes. They play themselves, although the scene seems to perpetuate the band's former pretense that they are indeed siblings. Fearing the consequences, Johnny, Will and Charlie retire to the hotel to hide out for the night; there, they all become increasingly intoxicated. [13] Jarmusch took advantage of the production to make the second installment of his Coffee and Cigarettes series, a collection of short vignettes featuring acquaintances of the director sitting about drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. [11][12] Jarmusch had conceived the part a few years previously while the two were together in Spain,[13] and although the musician had been in a period of depression at the time following the collapse of the band, he was drawn by the Memphis setting of the film. The film was also shown in the Edinburgh, London, Midnight Sun, Telluride, and Toronto film festivals, and was nominated in six categories at the Independent Spirit Awards. She describes the music style as hard industrial, similar to the band Iggy describes. Check back each month for new additions and updates. The final story, "Lost in Space", introduces Johnny. Joseph Rigano and Vinny Vella have a conversation over coffee about the dangers of smoking. The closing credits show the train, the airport and final views of the characters from the first two stories. [46] In an April 2000 retrospective of Jarmusch's work for Sight & Sound, Shawn Levy concluded that the film was "as much a valentine to the allure of the American way of pop culture as it is a cheeky bit of structural legerdemain without terribly much resonating significance". "[3] On Metacritic, the film has received a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [5] The idea for "Far from Yokohama", the first segment, he took from a one-act play he had been writing before filming Down by Law (1986). [11][13] Repeat Jarmusch collaborators who worked on the film included John Lurie who provided the original music, cinematographer Robby Müller,[15] and singer Tom Waits, who in a voice appearance reprised his role of radio DJ Lee Baby Sims from Down by Law. 100) Down by Law, de Jim Jarmusch. "[42] This reproach was echoed by other reviewers who found that the film's style did not stray far from that of the director's earlier work – a critical backlash that would be amplified two years later following the release of Night On Earth (1991). The eleven segments that make up the film are as follows: This is the original 1986 short Coffee and Cigarettes with Roberto Benigni and Steven Wright having a conversation about coffee and cigarettes. Other cameos include Jarmusch's long-time girlfriend Sara Driver as an airport clerk, Rufus Thomas as the man in the train station who greets the Japanese couple,[13] Rockets Redglare as the clerk of the liquor store, Vondie Curtis-Hall as Ed, Sy Richardson as the news vendor, and Richard Boes and Tom Noonan as diner patrons. "[13] The locale of the intersection was one of the film's primary formal elements; the effect of Jarmusch returning to the setting with different characters under different circumstances was one of the variations on a theme. Renée French (played by herself) drinks coffee while looking through a gun magazine. [3] Stills from the film as well as on-location shots of the actors and the film crew by photographer Masayoshi Sukita were published to accompany the film as the photo collection Mystery Train: A Film by Jim Jarmusch. Several other Jim Jarmusch films could have made this list, from Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai to the recent Paterson and Only Lovers Left Alive. Charlie realizes that Will shares the same name as the character Will Robinson from the television show Lost in Space, which Johnny has never heard of. 96) O Ano do Dragão, de Michael Cimino. [32], Entertainment Weekly reviewer Ira Robbins gave the film a B+ rating, complimenting it as "conceptually ambitious" and concluding that its "offbeat characters, fine cinematography, and novel structure make for entertaining viewing". [according to whom?]. Steven tells Roberto about his coffee ideas, such as freezing it into "caffeine Popsicles" for kids, and how he likes to drink coffee right before he goes to sleep so he can dream faster "like a camera on those Indy 500 cars". [6][7] The interconnected stories were inspired by Jarmusch's dwelling on literary forms, and specifically the work of Chaucer,[8] Italian episodic films and Japanese ghost story cinema. "[45] He later included the movie in his Great Movies collection, comparing the movie favorably to Jarmusch's later efforts like Dead Man and The Limits of Control. The first story, "Far from Yokohama", features Mitsuko and Jun, a teenage couple from Yokohama making a pilgrimage to Memphis during a trip across America. William "Bill" Rice and Taylor Mead spend their coffee break having a nostalgic conversation, whilst Janet Baker singing "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" from Mahler's Rückert-Lieder appears from nowhere. Molina is a very enthusiastic fan of Coogan's, who contrarily is very uninterested at their meeting and barely manages to hide this. The site's critical consensus states: "Episodes vary in quality, but overall this talky film is quirkily engaging. Early during the segment, "Down on the Street" by The Stooges is played in the background. 93) Parceiros da Noite, de William Friedkin. Jack shows Meg his Tesla coil that he says he built himself and waxes intellectual on the achievements of Nikola Tesla. The scene also features a recounting of the urban legend that Elvis Presley made racist comments about African Americans during a magazine interview. 50 Greatest Independent Films: Empire Magazine, a decidedly pro-British film magazine, offered their picks for the bravest, most innovative, and most creative films - the "ultimate indie lineup" of 50 of the best non-studio works ever made.Descriptions of choices for the 50 Greatest Independent Films are excerpted below from the Empire Magazine website. Meg clinks her coffee cup to produce a ringing noise, pauses, says "Earth as a conductor of acoustical resonance" and clinks her coffee cup to produce the noise again; she looks pensively out into the distance before a cut to black. [7] This motif of flashes of red was later described by Suzanne Scott of Reverse Shot as "giving the impression of a failed attempt to grab a bit of Elvis's glamor and try it on for size, only to inevitably discover that it looks cartoonish out of context". Filmed in 1993 as the short Coffee and Cigarettes - Somewhere in California, and won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. That's all our culture ultimately represents. Despite this, he doesn't roll the dice in front of his friend. It is possible to interpret the relevance of this line to the constant recurrent themes throughout the seemingly unconnected segments. [12], Jarmusch had met blues singer Screamin' Jay Hawkins after featuring his music prominently in his breakthrough feature Stranger Than Paradise (1984). [11][23] At a Memphis nightclub with the Japanese actors during production, the director had Masatoshi Nagase – who spoke little English but was an accomplished mimic – try chat-up lines on the female clientele as an acting exercise. What I like about the Japanese kids in Memphis is, if you think about tourists visiting Italy, the way the Romantic poets went to Italy to visit the remnants of a past culture, and then if you imagine America in the future, when people from the East or wherever visit our culture after the decline of the American empire – which is certainly in progress – all they'll really have to visit will be the homes of rock'n'roll stars and movie stars. The starting point for the script was the ensemble cast of friends and previous collaborators Jarmusch had conceived characters for, while the tripartite formal structure of the film was inspired by his study of literary forms. 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Iosepa - Performed by Jerry Byrd, Set Back (Just Cool) - Written by Coxsone Dodd - Performed by, Streets of Gold - Written by Coxsone Dodd - Performed by Roland Alphonso and the Soul Vendors, Louie Louie - Written by Richard Berry - Performed by, This page was last edited on 30 March 2021, at 23:21. Cate tells Shelly she looks forward to meeting "Lou" someday. He seems intent on striking up a conversation with her. [5], Roger Ebert commended the film's tempo; writing that "none of these 11 vignettes overstays its welcome, although a few seem to lose their way". [4], William Thomas of Empire Magazine delighted in the "quirky conversations" and "almost nostalgic air" which was punctuated with "lovely high contrast black-and-white imagery and snatches of music from Mahler to doo-wop". Cinqué Lee also appears in "Jack Shows Meg his Tesla Coil". Charlie and Johnny proceed to tell him about the show, and Will comments that the title describes how he feels then with Charlie and Johnny: lost in space. [2] In this segment musicians Iggy Pop and Tom Waits smoke cigarettes to celebrate that they quit smoking, drink some coffee and make awkward conversation. [17], The film was shot in bright, primary colors rather than the black-and-white of the director's previous features,[18][19][20] but it retained his usual languid pacing. He initially approaches her to serve more coffee, to which she reacts by saying "I had the right color, right temperature, it was just right". Andrew Dominik. At the end of the scene, Alex takes out a pair of dice and rolls three sets of doubles. The second story, "A Ghost", is about an Italian widow, Luisa, who is stranded in Memphis while escorting her husband's coffin back to Italy. Steven suddenly remembers he has a dentist appointment that he is afraid to go to, but has to. [16], Mystery Train was the first American independent film to be financed by Japanese conglomerate JVC, and was produced on a budget – $2.8 million – that was considerable by Jarmusch's modest standards. [16] After arriving in the city during a snowstorm to scout for shooting locations, Jarmusch drove around without direction before coming to the intersection of a disused train station, the Arcade Luncheonette diner, and the dilapidated Arcade Hotel that would become the film's core setting. E. J. Rodríguez plays the waiter, who is eager to be of service. [17] David Denby, concluding a mixed review of the film for New York Magazine, mused that "one feels Jarmusch has pushed hipsterism and cool about as far as they can go, and that isn't nearly far enough. [30] Internationally, it was first shown in competition at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival on May 13 and 14, 1989,[28] and subsequently featured in the Edinburgh, London, Midnight Sun, Telluride and Toronto film festivals. Roger Ebert was highly positive in his review, saying, “Blade II is a really rather brilliant vomitorium of viscera, a comic book with dreams of becoming a textbook for mad surgeons.” 6. "Ocean's Eleven" (2001) is a star-studded heist film. Molina excitedly shares with him research he came across, learning that they are distant cousins, and proposes a friendship or show business project to capitalize on this. Cancel anytime. William Rice repeats Jack White's line, "Nikola Tesla perceived the earth as a conductor of acoustical resonance." [1], Mystery Train was filmed in Memphis in the summer of 1988. [38] Robert Fulford of The National Post hailed it as "eccentric and deliriously funny",[39] while Rolling Stone's Phil Whitman remarked that the director's "bracing, original comedy may be mostly smoke and air, but it's not insubstantial". Mitsuko is obsessed with Elvis, and has put together a scrapbook detailing her belief that the singer has a mystical connection to other cultural figures ranging from Madonna to the Buddha to the Statue of Liberty. The Department of English offers over 200 courses for undergraduate- and graduate-level students. [6], Philip French of The Guardian provided a more critical review. The visual use of black and white relates to the theme of interpersonal contrasts, as each vignette features two people who disagree completely yet manage to sit amicably at the same table. [19][40] John Hartl, in The Seattle Times, also drew a comparison with Stranger Than Paradise, judging Mystery Train to be the more accessible work while retaining the dry wit of its predecessor. Luisa shares a room at the hotel with Dee Dee, a young woman who has just left her British boyfriend (Johnny from the final story) and plans to leave the city in the morning. Cate Blanchett plays herself and a fictional and non-famous cousin named Shelly, whom she meets over some coffee in the lounge of a hotel. This was particularly evident at Cannes, where the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or and Jarmusch was commended for the festival's Best Artistic Achievement. Mystery Train was released theatrically by Orion Classics under a restricted rating in the United States, where it grossed over $1.5 million. [7], Jamie Russell of the BBC labelled it "a mixed bag of entertaining genius and absolute rubbish". [5][13] He would later recount the experience in a March 1990 interview in Spin: "Man, ... this crossroad is filled with so many ghosts. Luisa is kept awake by Dee Dee's constant talking. Three, however, in which people appear as versions of themselves, are outstanding. In the end, the coil breaks, and Meg and the Waiter offer suggestions as to why it might be broken. Prime Video Channels is the Prime benefit that lets you choose your channels. [30][31] Its total domestic gross was $1,541,218, making it the 153rd highest-grossing film of 1989, and the 70th highest R-rated film of the year. The silent Vinny Vella Jr. also appears to beg his father for money, which is given in exchange for affection, which is not provided. He introduces the line, "Nikola Tesla perceived the earth to be a conductor of acoustical resonance." In the beginning, Jack seems upset that Meg doesn't share his excitement, and it takes Meg some coaxing to get Jack to agree to show Meg his Tesla coil. On the other hand, he felt the film suffered from an occasional lack of focus and uneven structure. 95) Danação, de Béla Tarr. The theme of the film is absorption in the obsessions, joys, and addictions of life, and there are many common threads between vignettes, such as the Tesla coil, medical knowledge, the suggestion that coffee and cigarettes don't make for a healthy meal (generally lunch), cousins, The Lees (Cinqué and Joie, and a mention of Spike Lee), delirium, miscommunication, musicians, the similarities between musicianship and medical skill, industrial music, acknowledged fame, and the idea of drinking coffee before sleeping in order to have fast dreams. During this conversation GZA makes a reference to how he would drink much coffee before going to bed so his dreams would "whip by" similar to the camera-shots at the Indy 500, very similar to the same reference that Steven Wright did in the first segment. Finally Meg says something that Jack seems to agree to, and he leaves to "go home and check it out". Themes. [11] The part of Luisa was also written by the director with the star – actress Nicoletta Braschi – in mind; the two had previously collaborated on Down by Law (1986). [21] Jarmusch characterized the color choice as "intuitive". [47], A 1989 independent anthology film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and set in Memphis, Tennessee, This article is about the 1989 Jim Jarmusch film. These courses focus on a diverse array of topics from across the fields of American and British literature; world literature; critical and narrative theory; film, video game analysis and other areas of popular culture studies; rhetoric, composition and literacy; digital media studies; and folklore. Sling Blade – Auf Messers Schneide ist ein US-amerikanisches Filmdrama von Billy Bob Thornton aus dem Jahr 1996.Es basiert auf einem Ein-Mann-Theaterstück von Thornton, welches er bereits 1985 spielte und 1988 in George Hickenloopers Kurzfilm Some Folks … Jim Jarmusch reizte das Western-Format nach eigener Aussage eher als geeignetes Grundgerüst für seinen Erzählstil: „Der Western als Genre ist ein dankbarer Boden für Metaphern und hat tiefe Wurzeln in klassischen Erzählformen. 91) Betty Blue, de Jean-Jacques Beineix Roberto happily volunteers and goes instead of him. Nel 1987 lavora con Paul Schrader, che la dirige in La luce del giorno, nel 1988 con Woody Allen nel film Un'altra donna, nel 1992 con 92) Atlantic City, de Louis Malle. You know Robert Johnson walked down that street, you know Muddy Waters was in that train station. Hip-hop artists (and cousins) GZA and RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan drink naturally caffeine-free herbal tea and have a conversation with the waiter, Bill Murray, about the dangers of caffeine and nicotine. The story follows the couple as they travel from the train station, through downtown Memphis and a tour of Sun Records, to the Arcade hotel, before they eventually depart to board the train again. He noted that "four or five are duds. [32][36][37] It was nominated in six categories at the 1989 Independent Spirit Awards: Best Picture, Best Screenplay (Jim Jarmusch), Best Director (Jim Jarmusch), Best Cinematography (Robby Müller), Best Actress (Youki Kudoh), and Best Supporting Actor (Steve Buscemi and Screamin' Jay Hawkins). Ebert mentions a simple shot in Tokyo Story where two pairs of shoes are sitting in the hallway of the resort to which the elderly leads traveled to “rest” – perhaps his best “pillow shot.” ... Jim Jarmusch. [11], —Jim Jarmusch, Interview, November 1989. Only members can add HBO and 100+ more channels — no cable required. 94) Filme Demência, de Carlos Reichenbach. It enjoyed critical acclaim on the film festival circuit, and like the director's earlier films premiered at the New York Film Festival and was shown in competition at Cannes, where Jarmusch was awarded the Best Artistic Achievement Award. [31], Hal Hinson of The Washington Post was unimpressed with the film, calling it Jarmusch's "least engaging, and the first in which his bohemian posturing actually becomes an irritant". Les archives de Nicholas Ray sont déposées à la Nicholas Ray Foundation [38], fondée et présidée par Susan Ray et assistée par un conseil d'administration où figurent Bernard Eisenschitz, Victor Erice, Jim Jarmusch, Philip Kaufman, Marco Muller, Walter Murch, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Barbet Schroeder et Rudolph Wurlitzer [39]. Ebert & Roeper's Richard Roeper called it a "flat-out hilarious ensemble comedy that probably made me laugh out loud more than any other movie this year." The great number of these collaborators contributed to it being "the most complicated film to write and execute" according to the director. [6], The role of Johnny was written by Jarmusch specifically for Joe Strummer, who had been the frontman of The Clash, the director's favorite 1980s rock band. The film is a triptych of stories involving foreign protagonists, unfolding over the course of the same night. Every room in the hotel lacks a television (as is noted in each story) but is adorned with a portrait of Elvis Presley. The next morning, Charlie discovers that Johnny isn't really his brother-in-law, which angers him because of what they've been through. [9][10] As with his other films, Jarmusch's starting point for writing Mystery Train was the actors and characters he had foremost in mind. [44] In his original review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert proclaimed that "[t]he best thing about Mystery Train is that it takes you to an America you feel you ought to be able to find for yourself, if you only knew where to look. Although reticent about acting, Hawkins responded favorably to the director's offer to appear. [29] The film was picked up for theatrical distribution by Orion Classics in the United States, where it was released under an R-rating due to scenes featuring brief nudity and strong language. Shelly tells Cate about her boyfriend, Lee, who is in a band. Cinqué Lee plays a waiter in this segment. [14] Cinqué Lee is the younger brother of director Spike Lee, a longtime friend of Jarmusch from their days at New York University's film school, while Youki Kudoh was cast after the director saw her performance in Sōgo Ishii's The Crazy Family (1984) while promoting Down by Law in Japan. Johnny attempts to shoot himself, and while struggling to prevent him, Charlie is accidentally shot in the leg. 98) Viver e Morrer em Los Angeles, de William Friedkin . [8], Several reviewers have praised the film's handling of the relationship between celebrities and fame. [33] A Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-ray were released on June 15, 2010, utilizing a new restored high-definition digital transfer. But it is too late and Molina, disappointed, leaves Coogan with the bill. Leaving the hotel, the three rush to escape a police car that isn't even looking for them. Mystery Train's US$2.8 million budget (financed by Japanese conglomerate JVC) was considerable compared to what the director had enjoyed before, and allowed him the freedom to rehearse many unscripted background scenes. The three stories are linked together by the Arcade Hotel, a run-down flophouse presided over by a night clerk and a bellboy, where the principal characters in each story spend a part of the night. 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