STRANGER THAN PARADISE - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1984
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: With this breakout film, Jim Jarmusch established himself as one of the most exciting voices in the burgeoning independent-film scene, a road-movie poet with an affinity for Americana at its most offbeat. Jarmusch follows rootless Hungarian émigré Willie (John Lurie), his pal Eddie (Richard Edson), and his visiting sixteen-year-old cousin, Eva (Eszter Balint), as they drift from New York’s Lower East Side to the snowy expanses of Lake Erie and the drab beaches of Florida, always managing to make the least of wherever they end up. Structured as a series of master-shot vignettes etched in black and white by cinematographer Tom DiCillo, Stranger Than Paradise is a nonchalant masterpiece of deadpan comedy and perfectly calibrated minimalism.
• Cast: John Lurie; Eszter Balint; Richard Edson; Cecillia Stark; Danny Rosen; Rammellzee; Tom DiCillo; Richard Boes; Rockets Redglare; Harvey Perr; Brian J. Burchill; Sara Driver; Paul Sloane; Jim Jarmusch
• Director: Jim Jarmusch
• Runtime: 1:29
• Company: Cinesthesia Productions, Inc., Grokenberger Film Produktion, ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen), Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie