5:00 p.m.: Leave work, but not before changing into outfit for the Big Event (that being “A Conversation with Jim Jarmusch and Jonathan Rosenbaum,” which I have chosen to interpret as “My Conversation with Jim Jarmusch”). Want to look gurly yet sophisticated. To achieve this, put on glittery pink sweater, black miniskirt, black hose, beige fishnets, black knee-high pleather … [Read more...] about The Big Jim Jarmusch Event
Jim Jarmusch
Crushing on Jim Jarmusch
It all started innocently enough. I was a good independent film fan. I went to all the free art films screened at my college. I appreciated movies with unusual narrative structure, innovative cinematography and unusual characters. I read issues of Film Comment and Sight and Sound on my lunch break. I talked the talk, mostly with college boys and male hipster video clerks, … [Read more...] about Crushing on Jim Jarmusch