Night on Earth (1991)
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
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What critics compared Night on Earth to
Run Lola Run will be compared to many other titles like: Rashomon (1950), Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blind Chance (1981), Night on Earth (1992), Groundhog Day (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), last year's Sliding Doors , and the recent titles Go and Twice Upon a Yesterday , as well as episodes of "The X-Files."
The device of playing with time will remind some of Pulp Fiction (and so will Lola and Manni), and also of Jim Jarmusch's brilliant Night on Earth.
“Tangerine” has a number of interlinked plot strands along with an episodic, anecdotal structure that reminded me a little of early Jim Jarmusch movies, especially “Mystery Train” and “Night on Earth.”
Good Time recalls the wearily hallucinatory qualities of other one-shot stories like Night on Earth and After Hours, but what the Safdies and co-screenwriter Ronald Bronstein accomplish here is a film of a distinctly filthy ilk.
"Down by Law," "Mystery Train" and "Night on Earth" were all stultifyingly dull.
Filmmaker Jarmusch, best known for the much-better "Mystery Train" and "Night On Earth," among others, allows the excesses in "Dead Man" to get out of hand to the point that they become distracting - especially the gore.
Jarmusch's first full-length feature since 1991's Night on Earth is a marked departure from the director's previous outings.
Despite its serious themes, much of the film is very funny in a wry way that Jarmusch fans know well from his four previous films, which also include "Stranger Than Paradise" (1984), "Down By Law" (1986) and "Night on Earth" (1992).
"Dead Man" is directed by Jim Jarmusch ("Night on Earth" and "Mystery Train").
Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch's first feature since 1992's Night on Earth, is a quirky chronicle of one man's physical and spiritual search for a place of belonging.
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It’s a form Jarmusch has experimented with before than 25 years ago in Night on Earth, which tracked taxi rides on the same night across five cities around the globe.
His 1991 portmanteau picture Night On Earth featured five different taxi drivers in cities around the world, taking their passengers on night-time journeys.
You can see it in Jarmusch’s previous movies Night on Earth or Coffee and Cigarettes, where short conversations speak volumes about who these characters are.
When he moved into colour with Mystery Train and Night on Earth, he brought something of William Eggleston ’s unnerving vision to the screen.
His quieter films — Stranger Than Paradise , Down by Law , Mystery Train , Dead Man , Ghost Dog , and Broken Flowers — tend to be better than his talkier ones, like Night on Earth, Coffee and Cigarettes , etc. (We will have to leave The Limits of Control up for debate.)
Jim Jarmusch has been making movies for nearly four decades now—he was one of the faces of the American independent film movement long before most people were aware that such a thing even existed—and as a fan of his work, both his oddball genre explorations such as the trippy Western “Dead Man,” the martial arts-influences “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai” and the vampire riff “Only Lovers Left Alive,” and one-of-a-kind efforts as “Down by Law,” “Night on Earth” and “Broken Flowers,” I would go so far as to declaim him as one of the most exciting and consistently interesting cinematic talents of his time.
“Only Lovers Left Alive” is something of a departure for writer-director Jim Jarmusch, who is best known for such films as “Stranger Than Paradise,” “Mystery Train” and “Night on Earth.”
Here, the auteur of such gems as Mystery Train and Night on Earth foregoes the usual vampire-friendly settings of Transylvania, London and even New York to set his story in, of all places, Detroit.
Overall, this is not Jarmusch’s best film – it doesn’t approach the odd energy of something like Ghost Dog or Down By Law or Night on Earth, but it’s a sight better than his last film, the truly awful 2009 WTF-fest The Limits of Control.
The director who brought us “Night on Earth,” “Mystery Train” and “Broken Flowers” tells the story of a couple of undead lovers, together through the centuries, now separated by an ocean and half a continent.
He has made a film about it (“Night on Earth,” 1991), and it’s the hour when his characters come most naturally into their own.