Saturday Watch Party | Stranger Than Paradise

This week, the Watch Party turns to art cinema featuring Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise.

Here’s a link to download the original 1982 screenplay (PDF) to study in advance… https://greenmountainwriters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/stranger-than-paradise-1984.pdf

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Stranger Than Paradise
(trailer https://youtu.be/MwefGellnhk)
Directed by Jim Jarmusch • 1984 • United States, Germany
Starring John Lurie, Richard Edson, Eszter Balint

With this breakout film, Jim Jarmusch established himself as one of the most exciting voices in the burgeoning independent-film scene, a road-movie poet with an affinity for Americana at its most offbeat. Jarmusch follows rootless Hungarian émigré Willie (John Lurie), his pal Eddie (Richard Edson), and his visiting sixteen-year-old cousin, Eva (Eszter Balint), as they drift from New York’s Lower East Side to the snowy expanses of Lake Erie and the drab beaches of Florida, always managing to make the least of wherever they end up. Structured as a series of master-shot vignettes etched in black and white by cinematographer Tom DiCillo, Stranger Than Paradise is a nonchalant masterpiece of deadpan comedy and perfectly calibrated minimalism.