Author Archive for: ‘Fiona A. Villella’

Lost in Paradise: The Cinema of Jim Jarmusch

Uploaded 1 December 2001 Whilst studying poetry at Columbia University in the early to mid 1970s, Jim Jarmusch took a sojourn to Paris where he discovered world art cinema at the Cinémathèque Française – Shohei Imamura, Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer, Samuel Fuller, Jacques Rivette and so on. In the various interviews with Jarmusch – at present …

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Dead Man

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Dead Man. London: BFI Publishing, 2000. ISBN: 0 85170 806 4 (pb) 96pp A$24.95 (Review copy supplied by Peribo: Distributors of Fine Books) Uploaded 1 December 2001 “The joy of reading: Jonathan Rosenbaum’s Dead Man.” …it seems to me that formal innovation is often a matter of finding ways to discover and articulate new kinds of content, to say …

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