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Jim Jarmusch to Release Album

Time Out reported that Jim Jarmusch — the director behind Broken Flowers and Dead Man and a once-All Tomorrow’s Parties festival curator in New York — will release Concerning the Entrance Into Eternity on Feb. 28 through important records. The album will be a collaboration, with Jarmusch playing guitar and Jozef Van Wissem on lute. The two are expected to perform two sets in New York on Feb. 3 at the ISSUE Project Room.  read more

7 Great Non-musical Moments From Hall Of Fame Nominee Tom Waits

Tom Waits has finally been nominated to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Paste’s top 5 songwriter certainly deserves induction for his long string of brilliant explorations of the underbelly of the human psyche and society in general. He’s also turned in some great turns on the big screen. Here are 7 of our favorite non-musical moments from the musical legend....  read more

Jim Jarmusch Working on Stooges Documentary, Nikola Tesla Opera

Pokerfaced filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, the man behind fantastic films like Ghost Dog and Dead Man, talked to Pitchfork recently about a few upcoming projects that it seems only he could announce....  read more

Jim Jarmusch Curating One Day of ATP's 2010 New York Lineup

We know, we know: There have been a ton of festival announcements lately. Tis the season, as it were. But this one’s pretty awesome. One day of the third All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in New York will be curated by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. Jarmusch’s established affinity for musicians (Tom Waits, Iggy Pop and John Lurie have all had key roles in his movies) makes him an ideal fit for the role....  read more

Is Indie Dead?

Indie is, at once, a genre (of music first, and then of film, books, video games and anything else with a perceived arty sensibility, regardless of its relationship to a corporation), an ethos, a business model, a demographic and a marketing tool...  read more

Werner Herzog Hosts Cooking Show to Raise Money?

Even the most serious film scholar can agree: film auteur and self-proclaimed poet Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, a remake of Nosferatu) is ripe for satire. The larger-than-life director is occasionally shot by snipers in L.A., an occurrence which he deems "insignificant," and "part of the folklore in Los Angeles - nothing really that serious." He has waged "holy war" on television and describes his work as a quest for "ecstatic art."...  read more

Salute Your Shorts: Coffee and Cigarettes

Writing about Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes in this space is cheating a little bit...  read more

The Limits of Control

The central character in Jim Jarmusch's latest is technically called Lone Man, but his name might as well be Mysterious Badass...  read more

Jim Jarmusch recruits Boris for The Limits of Control

Depending on how you feel about Japanese doom metal, you may have immediately noticed a name while watching the newly-released theatrical trailer for Jim Jarmusch's Spanish crime epic The Limits of Control. Notably, that the ambient sludgemeisters of Boris have joined up with Jarmusch to help score the movie....  read more

Jim Jarmusch to Control Bill Murray, Javier Bardem, more

When we last left him, Jim Jarmusch was readying his first feature in years. Called The Limits of Control, the film is a road movie being shot by Jarmusch and Christopher Doyle about a mysterious protagonist traveling across Spain. And now, less than a month before shooting is set to begin, more casting announcements have started coming in about the film. While Isaach De Bankole will be playing the film's lead, Jarmusch is enlisting the help of many past contributors. First and foremost of these is Bill Murray, who worked with Jarmusch previously in Broken Flowers and Coffee and Cigarettes....  read more