Jim Jarmusch

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Review: Littlerock

A benighted slice of Americana
Two young Japanese tourists, brother and sister Rintaro (Rintaro Sawamoto) and Atsuko (Atsuko Okatsuka), get stranded when their car breaks down in the California backwater of the title.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 27, 2011

Tilda Swinton's mixed metamorphoses

Indie-cinema luminary gets retrospective in P-Town
Most people know Tilda Swinton either from her role as the White Witch in the Narnia movies or as the striking-looking woman who in her speech accepting the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in Michael Clayton said she was going to give the trophy to her agent. Or perhaps as the actress whom Conan O'Brian said he would like to portray him if there's ever an HBO movie made about his life.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 21, 2010

The Big Hurt: The decade ahead

Music predictions for the pubescent millennium
As a new decade dawns, it's time to cast a curious eye toward the future.
By DAVID THORPE | January 12, 2010

Crossword: ''You want fries with that?''

Some people do
Some people do
By MATT JONES | November 18, 2009

Festival atmosphere

Between the Blockbuster and the beach there are the film festivals of New England
Summer traditionally has been the happy hunting ground for Hollywood studios — the time when they unleash their big-budgeted, f/x-heavy warhorses on armies of newly freed schoolchildren and frazzled adults trying to beat the heat.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 09, 2009

Interview: Roberto Benigni

TuttoDante, Benigni's one-man show
"Dante is talking to everybody, not just in the Middle Ages."
By JIM SULLIVAN | June 03, 2009

Mission Control

Jim Jarmusch's arbitrary Limits
Like many of his films, Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control will test the limits of its audience's patience.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 07, 2009

The unlikely hits of Twisted Village

Name that tune
I have fond memories of my first visits to the basement abode of Twisted Village.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | February 03, 2009

Review: Wendy and Lucy

It's a dog's life
It's a dog's life in Wendy and Lucy
By PETER KEOUGH | January 20, 2009

Blown up

Shoney Lamar proves there’s life after Florida
Lamar’s voice both ravages and exults in the past 10 years of the Pained Male Pop Singer.
By MATT PARISH | October 08, 2008

Rebirth of a prince

Digging RZA in 36 steps
I recently took the Greyhound to Montreal for a RZA concert.
By CHRIS FARAONE | August 19, 2008

Bouncement 3

. . . and other singular beats
Lately it’s seemed like Old Home Days for Toneburst, the influential artcore junglist collective that was a locus of Boston’s underground dance scene in the mid ’90s.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | April 08, 2008

Too legit to quit

Wu-Tang Clan and Ghostface Killah
The early word on Wu-Tang Clan’s new 8 Diagrams is that it will rip the group apart at the seams.
By BEN WESTHOFF | December 31, 2007

Trane, Joyce Dee Dee, Sco, and more

A jam-packed season of jazz
The official kickoff to the season begins with the week of activities celebrating the 30th anniversary of the John Coltrane Memorial Concert.
By JON GARELICK | September 12, 2007

Smoking hot

Cigarettes on the silver screen
In honor of May 31, International No Tabacco Day, we’re listing the some of the most seminal smoking scenes on the silver screen.
By PHOENIX STAFF | June 01, 2007

For kids of all ages

Ty Burr, plus Jean-Claude Brisseau
In this spineless age of ours, what more rueful sight than a child maneuvering his/her cowed parents to some insulting CGI movie?
By GERALD PEARY | March 14, 2007

The RZA Presents: Afro Amurai —The Soundtrack

The RZA Presents: Afro Samurai — The Soundtrack | Koch
Even as the Wu-Tang continue to flirt with the idea of reuniting, the RZA has already started a new life as a film composer.
By MATTHEW GASTEIER | February 13, 2007

Over the river

NH festival features four Maine-made films
Though it’s called the New Hampshire Film Expo, four of the 67 films being screened in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, this weekend have stronger ties to Maine than the Granite State.
By BLY LAURITANO-WERNER | October 11, 2006

Flower power

Did Jim Jarmusch steal the screenplay?
Stealing someone’s screenplay is serious stuff.
By GERALD PEARY | July 12, 2006

Gore a bore?

And other insights at the Silverdocs Film Festival
I was off to Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Fourth Silverdocs Documentary Festival earlier this month.
By GERALD PEARY | June 28, 2006

Flashbacks, May 12, 2006

The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966.
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Chris Brook and Ian Sands.
By EDITORIAL | May 11, 2006

Gray cowboy movie

Don’t Come Knocking needs less talking
Wim Wenders can drive me nuts.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 22, 2006

Bubble

Rating: 2 stars
At its best, Steven Soderbergh’s Bubble is an exercise in banality.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 28, 2006

Drifting

Claire Denis’s L’intrus
French filmmaker Claire Denis has acknowledged that a host of sources inspired L’intrus|The Intruder (January 25–February 9 at the MFA), the tale of a sickly, reclusive Frenchman, Louis Trebor (Michel Subor), who after paying hard cash and buying a new heart sails for the South Seas, vaguely in search of a lost illegitimate son.
By GERALD PEARY | January 19, 2006

New to DVD for the week of January 3, 2006

Broken Flowers , The Cave , The Gospel , Hustle & Flow , and Wedding Crashers
Broken Flowers , The Cave , The Gospel , Hustle & Flow , and Wedding Crashers
By | January 13, 2006