This digital anthology collects every feature, interview, and review Film Comment magazine has published about Jim Jarmusch.
January/February 1985: An interview with Harlan Jacobson, focusing on his Camera d’Or-winning Stranger Than Paradise and Akron childhood
July/August 1989: Marcia Pally writes about Mystery Train, the dark finale to Jarmusch’s deadbeat America triptych
May/June 1992: Jim Jarmusch looks back on his guilty pleasures—the movies, actors, and directors that have obsessed him, from the Marx Brothers and Lee Marvin to The Evil Dead and Dolemite
May/June 1996: Jacob Levich discusses the poetics and metaphysics of Jarmusch's allegorical Western Dead Man
January/February 2000: Chuck Stephens reviews Ghost Dog
July/August 2005: Chris Norris on Broken Flowers, a tale of memory and loss powered by deadpan virtuoso Bill Murray
May/June 2009:
• Kent Jones extolls the mysterious virtues of The Limits of Control
• Gavin Smith speaks to the director about the free-associative screenwriting and shooting techniques behind The Limits of Control
March/April 2014: Amy Taubin reviews Only Lovers Left Alive