Nowadays, Paterson, New Jersey is no longer in the condition Williams Carlos Williams, New Jersey resident, doctor and poet, wrote about in his book length poem named after the city. Jim Jarmusch has named his new film after it as well, and gone even further in his simplified, focused way, naming his protagonist Paterson, too. Played with a slowly affecting, deadpanned distance by Adam Driver, 2016’s Paterson is a bus driver and a poet, living in a small house with his exuberantly creative girlfriend Laura (Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani), and contently settled into a daily routine of waking, writing, working, and walking the couple’s English bulldog to a local bar for his sole beer of the night. Following him daily, we see some of the industrial, turn of the century downtown of Paterson during his route, overhear snatches of passenger conversations (about erotic longing, Italian anarchists), read and listen...
- 12/21/2016
- MUBI
Jim Jarmusch had been thinking about making Paterson ever since he took a day trip to the New Jersey city of the same name about 20 years ago. The idea for his indie film, which is set to hit theaters Dec. 28, first came to him while visiting the hometown of one of his favorite poets, William Carlos Williams, whose work is featured in the film.
"That’s when I first started having a few ideas of making a film there about a working-class poet — it was just the very beginning," Jarmusch told The Hollywood Reporter before a New York screening of Paterson at Manhattan's Landmark...
"That’s when I first started having a few ideas of making a film there about a working-class poet — it was just the very beginning," Jarmusch told The Hollywood Reporter before a New York screening of Paterson at Manhattan's Landmark...
- 12/15/2016
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There are three kinds of Mr. Robot episodes: the table-setting ones, in which stiff people explain things in tensely framed shots; the ones where a whole bunch of shit goes down, like last week's trigger-happy nail-biter; and the ones that play out like an extended dream.
This week's was the third kind, and maybe the most visionary to date. "Mind awake, body asleep," Elliot invites his imaginary friend (the viewer) to chant with him over and over as he tries to will himself into a lucid dream. Thereafter, our hero...
This week's was the third kind, and maybe the most visionary to date. "Mind awake, body asleep," Elliot invites his imaginary friend (the viewer) to chant with him over and over as he tries to will himself into a lucid dream. Thereafter, our hero...
- 9/15/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Legendary American independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has been a frequent visitor to the Cannes Film Festival ever since winning the Camera d’Or for Stranger Than Paradise in 1984. He took the Grand Jury prize in 2005 for Broken Flowers but has never managed to nab the Big One. His latest film, Paterson, which premiered last week in competition here, is the story of a bus driver (played by Adam Driver) named Paterson who lives in Paterson NJ, walks his wife’s bulldog, Marvin, and writes poems in his spare time. We sat down with the great silver-haired Son of Lee Marvin to talk hip-hop, Tilda Swinton, and the poetry of everyday things.
Some critics have called this your most personal film. How do would you respond to a statement like that?
I don’t know. With our last film, Only Lovers Left Alive, everyone said “Aha! His most personal film!” I don’t know.
Some critics have called this your most personal film. How do would you respond to a statement like that?
I don’t know. With our last film, Only Lovers Left Alive, everyone said “Aha! His most personal film!” I don’t know.
- 5/23/2016
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Nowadays, Paterson, New Jersey is no longer in the condition Williams Carlos Williams, New Jersey resident, doctor and poet, wrote about in his book length poem named after the city. Jim Jarmusch has named his new film after it as well, and gone even further in his simplified, focused way, naming his protagonist Paterson, too. Played with a slowly affecting, deadpanned distance by Adam Driver, 2016’s Paterson is a bus driver and a poet, living in a small house with his exuberantly creative girlfriend Laura (Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani), and contently settled into a daily routine of waking, writing, working, and walking the couple’s English bulldog to a local bar for his sole beer of the night. Following him daily, we see some of the industrial, turn of the century downtown of Paterson during his route, overhear snatches of passenger conversations (about erotic longing, Italian anarchists), read and listen...
- 5/17/2016
- MUBI
In his Village Voice review of Jim Jarmusch’s criminally under-appreciated The Limits of Control, J. Hoberman described the director as “a full-blown talent [who] erupts once a decade: Stranger than Paradise in the ’80s, Dead Man in the ’90s and The Limits of Control [in the ’00s].” Jarmusch has now validated Hoberman’s estimation with a fresh new masterpiece for our present decade: Paterson.
If there is one element working against the sheer wonder of Jarmusch’s film, it’s our own expectations. The narrative is an exercise in repetition, split up into seven days, the first five near-identical. Each one starts with a captioned – Monday, Tuesday… – top-down shot of Paterson (Adam Driver) and his girlfriend Laura (Golshifteh Farahani) asleep in bed together, followed by a relatively strict routine of events: Paterson gets up a little after 6 a.m. and goes to work as a bus driver, drives around until knock-off time, then...
If there is one element working against the sheer wonder of Jarmusch’s film, it’s our own expectations. The narrative is an exercise in repetition, split up into seven days, the first five near-identical. Each one starts with a captioned – Monday, Tuesday… – top-down shot of Paterson (Adam Driver) and his girlfriend Laura (Golshifteh Farahani) asleep in bed together, followed by a relatively strict routine of events: Paterson gets up a little after 6 a.m. and goes to work as a bus driver, drives around until knock-off time, then...
- 5/16/2016
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- The Film Stage
Chances to hear pianist Art Lande in action in New York City are rare; with bassist Steve Swallow, even rarer (they had a band in the Bay Area in the '70s). Fortunately for New Yorkers, clarinetist/soprano saxophonist Mike McGinnis took it upon himself to bring them together for some trio concerts, and though snow in Colorado kept Lande from arriving for the originally scheduled Thursday and Friday shows, IBeam was able to accommodate them for the expected four sets by squeezing in a late set Saturday and then three sets Sunday night; I caught the first two on Sunday.
Art Lande acted as the Mc for the evening, and his humor was quickly apparent when he said that if McGinnis had not written their first number, "The Rising," specifically for Easter, we could think of bread instead. The trio had only played together for one rehearsal and the previous evening's set,...
Art Lande acted as the Mc for the evening, and his humor was quickly apparent when he said that if McGinnis had not written their first number, "The Rising," specifically for Easter, we could think of bread instead. The trio had only played together for one rehearsal and the previous evening's set,...
- 3/28/2016
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
James Franco's epithet is still in the making, but "jack of all trades" wouldn't be far off. Last week, the actor, artist, screenwriter, blogger, musician, author, and newly deemed professor tacked on another title: poet.
Franco's first chapbook of poetry, Strongest of the Litter, was published last week by Hollyridge Press. The publisher calls the poems "beautiful and spare," and explains that they center on the theme of the self-consuming role of power in Hollywood.
Unsurprisingly, the publication of this collection doesn't mark Franco's first foray into poetry. He played Allen Ginsberg in a movie rendition of Howl, has lectured at New York University about translating poetry into film, and attended poetry classes at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.
The poems in the book are written in a myriad of voices, a style adopted by modernist poet Williams Carlos Williams. Oh, and the cover inexplicably features hip hop...
Franco's first chapbook of poetry, Strongest of the Litter, was published last week by Hollyridge Press. The publisher calls the poems "beautiful and spare," and explains that they center on the theme of the self-consuming role of power in Hollywood.
Unsurprisingly, the publication of this collection doesn't mark Franco's first foray into poetry. He played Allen Ginsberg in a movie rendition of Howl, has lectured at New York University about translating poetry into film, and attended poetry classes at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.
The poems in the book are written in a myriad of voices, a style adopted by modernist poet Williams Carlos Williams. Oh, and the cover inexplicably features hip hop...
- 11/6/2012
- by Madeleine Crum
- Huffington Post
Carlos Williams has joined Warner Horizon TV as senior vp business affairs.
Williams will run the division's business-affairs department, succeeding Alan Saxe, who left last month to head business and legal affairs at Own: The Oprah Winfrey Network.
Williams will oversee negotiations and dealmaking for Whtv's slate of scripted and unscripted shows, including the upcoming Jerry Bruckheimer drama "Dark Blue" for TNT, AMC's political thriller pilot "Rubicon" and reality series "Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew," "The Bachelor," "The Bachelorette," "High School Reunion," "The Cougar," "Here Come the Newlyweds" and the upcoming "There Goes the Neighborhood."
He will report to Whtv executive vp Craig Erwich.
Williams comes to Whtv from Disney, where he spent nine years in business and legal affairs positions, most recently as vp and head of business affairs at Disney's fledging digital studio Stage 9, which is being folded into ABC.com as part of the...
Williams will run the division's business-affairs department, succeeding Alan Saxe, who left last month to head business and legal affairs at Own: The Oprah Winfrey Network.
Williams will oversee negotiations and dealmaking for Whtv's slate of scripted and unscripted shows, including the upcoming Jerry Bruckheimer drama "Dark Blue" for TNT, AMC's political thriller pilot "Rubicon" and reality series "Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew," "The Bachelor," "The Bachelorette," "High School Reunion," "The Cougar," "Here Come the Newlyweds" and the upcoming "There Goes the Neighborhood."
He will report to Whtv executive vp Craig Erwich.
Williams comes to Whtv from Disney, where he spent nine years in business and legal affairs positions, most recently as vp and head of business affairs at Disney's fledging digital studio Stage 9, which is being folded into ABC.com as part of the...
- 3/23/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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