Jim Jarmusch

Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
01/22/1953
Birthplace:
Akron, Ohio
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Jim Jarmusch's hip, urban, comic jags arose from the same East Village-New York University explosion that nurtured the relentlessly contemporary films of Susan Seidelman and Spike Lee. His recurring motif is one of narrative as an inevitable byproduct of cultural collision. Jarmusch offers lowlife reflections of post-modernist communication and miscommunication between characters sealed off from one another, their only connection the many-tentacled pop trash culture of America.

In 1971, Jarmusch enrolled at Columbia University in the English literature program. A few months before graduation, Continued

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2005
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2004
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2000
The Director
1997
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1997
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1996
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1996
Himself
1995
Monty
1992
Producer
1991
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1991
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1991
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1980
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1980
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1980
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Car Dealer in New York
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1979 
Worked as a production assistant on the epochal Nicholas Ray/Wim Wenders collaboration, "Lightning Over Water"
1980 
Provided sound recording for Eric Mitchell's "Underground USA"
1980 
Directed, wrote, edited, and composed the music for "Permanent Vacation", his first feature; Tom DiCillo served as director of photography; on its completion, Wenders gave him some leftover film stock which he used for part of "Stranger Than Paradise"
1980 
Wrote and directed the short "New World"
1982 
Worked as an actor in Lothar Lambert's West German feature "Fraulein Berlin"
Continued
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