Jim Jarmusch
Birthday: 1953-01-22
Place of Birth: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA
Biography: James Robert "Jim" Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio) is an American writer-director and musician. Jarmusch has been a major figure in American independent cinema since the 1980s. He is best known for his work on "Dead Man" (1995), "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" (1999), "Broken Flowers" (2005), and "Only Lovers Left Alive" (2013).
Movies
Don't Expect Too Much
Documentary about director/artist Nicholas Ray and his time as a University professor...
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Blue in the Face
A wacky group of locals visit the neighborhood cigar shop, looking for good times and finding plenty...
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Leningrad Cowboys Go America
The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking f...
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Punk: Attitude
From London's 1970 mod scene to Sonic Youth, punk music has always been about attitude and anarchy. ...
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Straight to Hell
A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the...
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Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Recorded live at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, Roy is joined by an eclectic ensemble of rock and...
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Iron Horsemen
Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of t...
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four y...
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Sling Blade
Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since t...
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Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
In 1993, Sam Fuller takes Jim Jarmusch on a trip into Brazil's Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to...
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Reel Injun
The evolution of the depiction of the various Native American peoples in cinema, from the silent era...
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The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood d...
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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New...
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Rockets Redglare!
A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death...
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me
Portrait of an important American musician through the testimonies of fellow musicians and people fr...
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming c...
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Cinéma Laika
In the heart of the Finnish forest, the long-closed foundry of the little town of Karkkila has come ...
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Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
A portrait of the American director Jim J. at work on the set of his latest film, Only Lovers Left A...
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Chaplin Today: A King in New York
An examination of Charles Chaplin's final starring film....
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Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berl...
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Fragments of Paradise
For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, docu...
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Scab Vendor: The Life and Times of Jonathan Shaw
Born with a silver spoon, Jonathan Shaw chose, at the height of his career as a tattoo artist, to gi...
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Hot Sugar's Cold World
Nick Koenig, aka Hot Sugar, is in a hot mess. Considered a modern-day Mozart, the young electronic m...
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Cannes Man
Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a ...
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Year of the Horse
A document of Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 1996 concert tour. Director Jarmusch conducts interviews ...
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Behind Jim Jarmusch
"Behind Jim Jarmusch" is an intimate an intriguing portrait of director Jim Jarmusch, at work on the...
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Song from the Forest
25 years ago, Louis Sarno, an American, heard a song on the radio and followed its melody into the C...
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Fräulein Berlin
Berlin Underground-star Ulrike S. went to the Toronto-Filmfestival and then to New York - to find ou...
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The Golden Boat
Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal d...
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Gimme Danger
No other band in rock'n'roll history has rivaled The Stooges' combination of heavy primal throb, spi...
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Lightning Over Water
Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim...
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Blank City
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come f...
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Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch
Documentary on American film director Jim Jarmusch made for German television. featuring interviews ...
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Divine Trash
The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters....
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Only You
In this ostensible murder mystery, the genre elements are merely a pretext for the series of hauntin...
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American Autobahn
A German journalist on the run from mobsters in New York embarks on a road trip across the United St...
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Living the Light: Robby Müller
For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijm...
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Strummer
A 30 minute film shot by Jim Jarmusch at Rockfield Studio, Wales with never before seen footage of J...
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A Tribute To Ron Asheton
Live performance by Iggy and the Stooges in tribute to their former guitarist Ron Asheton. Recorded ...
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Ramones: We're Outta Here!
Documentary covering The Ramones' long and eventful history, with footage from their final ever show...
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Excavating Taylor Mead
The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment....
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Carmine Street Guitars
Five days in the life of fabled Greenwich Village guitar store Carmine Street Guitars....
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Vortex
A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poe...
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In Bad Taste
A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow fi...
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In the Soup
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first ...
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Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut ...
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by...
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The Ravenite
1980s New York was a very different place to the bustling cosmopolitan tourist magnet we know now, a...
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Uncle Howard
When Howard Brookner lost his life to AIDS in 1989, the 35-year-old director had completed two featu...
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The Raconteurs Live at Electric Lady
‘The Raconteurs: Live at Electric Lady’ is a documentary and concert film showcasing the day, includ...
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Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai
A documentary about the making of Jim Jarmusch's 1999 film GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI, includ...
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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New Yor...
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Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
Alex is a Finnish taxi driver in Berlin. One evening pits two men feel comfortable in his taxi with ...
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R.I.P. Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman
R.I.P Rest in Pieces is an intimate portrait of artist Joe Coleman, who is known around the world as...
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Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
John Boorman met Lee Marvin in London when the latter was making The Dirty Dozen and immediately the...
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Sodankylä Forever
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arc...
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Some Days in January, 1984
A short behind-the-scenes documentary shot and edited on Super 8 by filmmaker Tom Jarmusch, director...
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Candy Mountain
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker....
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Jim Jarmusch: I Love to Take the Subway by Myself
Independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch talks at length about his journey from Akron, Ohio to Cannes, Fra...
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Spirit of Golf
In his new film, Spirit of Golf, photographer and documentary filmmaker Christopher Felver traces hi...
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