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Posts Tagged Jim Jarmusch

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April 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Gimme Danger: DVD

Gimme Danger: The Story of The Stooges Director: Jim Jarmusch Dogwoof I wonder if people worry about whether they’re letting the side down by not liking a key book or doco relating to an artist they love. I figure fans want to lap up anything related to the fan-experience. But boring-is-boring. I loathed the Keith […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Doco, Documentary, DVD, DVD Review, Film Review, Gimme Danger, Gimme Danger: DVD, Gimme Danger: The Story of The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Jim Jarmusch, Movie, Movie Review, Punk, Rock, The Stooges ·

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October 14, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Jozef Van Wissem/Squrl: Only Lovers Left Alive [OST]

Jozef Van Wissem/Squrl Only Lovers Left Alive [OST] ATP Recordings I absolutely loathed the film, couldn’t stand it. But I love the soundtrack. Go figure. Actually, that seems to be happening more often these days, I’ll check the film if I’m interested in it, or have heard its music already and liked it – and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Jim Jarmusch, Jozef Van Vissem, Jozef Van Vissem/Squrl, Only Lovers Left Alive, Score, Soundtrack, SQURL, Yasmine Hamdan, Zola Jesus ·

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October 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Only Lovers Left Alive: DVD

Only Lovers Left Alive Director: Jim Jarmusch Madman Jim Jarmusch has been phoning in material for over a decade now – the start of the slide was when he was applauded for the awful, indulgent, pointless Coffee & Cigarettes (which might as well have been called Tom Waits and Jack White, since you can’t say […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Coffee & Cigarettes, Dead Man, DVD, DVD Review, Film, Film Review, Jim Jarmusch, John Hurt, Movie Review, Only Lovers Left Alive, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston ·

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May 21, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Movies of My Life # 9: Year of The Horse

I’ve watched a lot of music films – concert films, docos – those unauthorised bios. If it’s music-related I tend to get to it. But I love seeing a great music doco at the cinema and early one Saturday morning many years ago I trotted on down to that glorious big screen of The Embassy […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Concert Film, Crazy Horse, Doco, Documentary, Film, Film Festival, Film Review, Jim Jarmusch, Movies of My Life, Movies of My Life # 9, Movies of My Life # 9: Year of the Horse, Music Doco, Neil Young, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Phantom Billstickers, Year of the Horse ·

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April 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Win Tickets to Only Lovers Left Alive

After living for centuries and influencing the careers of countless famous musicians and scientists, vampire Adam has become a reclusive musician. He spends his days recording albums on outdated studio equipment and lamenting the state of the modern world while he sulks in a dilapidated house in a deserted Detroit neighborhood. He has become convinced that […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Film, Free, Giveaway, Jim Jarmusch, Movie, NZ, Only Lovers Left Alive, Tickets, Trigger Publicity ·

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April 28, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Jozef van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch: The Mystery of Heaven

Jozef van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch The Mystery of Heaven Sacred Bones Records The second of three collaborative albums released in the same year between composer Jozef van Wissem and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, The Mystery of Heaven also features actress Tilda Swinton offering voiceover to the track The More She Burns The More Beautiful She […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Feedback, Flowing Light of the Godhead, Jim Jarmusch, Jozef van Wissem, Lou Reed, Neil Young, Only Lovers Left, Sacred Bones Records, The More She Burns The More Beautiful She Glows, The Mystery of Heaven ·

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