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Stranger than Paradise: The Criterion Collection

DVD/APPROX. 89 MINS./1984/US R

Main feature:

Release Sep 4, 2007
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Anamorphic - Enhanced for Widescreen TVs.
Audio English: Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles English, English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1984
Genre Comedy

Special features:

  • Permanet Vacation (1980, 75 min.), Jaarmusch's 1st full-length feature
  • Kino '84: Jim Jarmusch: a 1984 German TV program featuring interviews with cast
  • Some Days In January, 1984, a behind-the-scenes Super-8 film by Tom Jarmusch
  • Location and on-set photos
  • U.S. and Japanese trailers
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring Jarmusch's 1984 "Some Notes on Stranger Than Paradise"

Synopsis:

Rootless Hungarian emigre Willie (John Lurie), his pal Eddie (Richard Edson), and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva (Eszter Balint) always manage to make the least of any situation, whether aimlessly traversing the drab interiors and environs of New York City, Cleveland, or an anonymous Florida suburb. With its delicate humor and dramatic nonchalance, Jim Jarmusch's one-of-a-kind minimalist masterpiece, Stranger Than Paradise, forever transformed the landscape of American independent cinema. Also included in this special-edition release is Jarmusch's legendary debut feature, Permanent Vacation, a time capsule of late-seventies Manhattan, on DVD for the first time in the United States.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
John LurieEszter BalintRichard Edson"Stranger than Paradise: The Criterion Collection"
Written byJim Jarmuschproduced bySara Driver
produced byOtto Grokenberger
directed byJim Jarmusch
Production Year: 1984

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