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The Dead Don't Die is independent director Jim Jarmusch's absurdist take on a horror comedy that centers on the reactions of people in a small town when they find themselves in the middle of a zombie apocalypse caused by polar fracking. The movie is led by Adam Driver and Bill Murray, but the supporting cast includes Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Selena Gomez, and more, giving the movie a very impressive wealth of talent. While many main characters in The Dead Don't Die ultimately end up dying, their adventures along the way are pretty unusual and funny.

While the film received mixed reviews upon its initial release, when the movie was added to Netflix in December 2024, The Dead Don't Die quickly found streaming success. Its renewed popularity is no surprise given the deadpan humor, fourth wall breaks, and unexpected ending twist in The Dead Don't Die...

The Dead Don't Die includes many characters who die after the small sleepy town of Centerville is invaded by zombies. The cast of The Dead Don't Die comprises an ensemble of renowned actors such as Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Danny Glover, and Adam Driver, who bring director Jim Jarmusch's story to life. At its core, The Dead Don't Die is an enjoyable zombie movie. However, the elements of comedy in the film make it a parody of the genre.

Released in 2019, Adam Driver's zombie film has recently seen a resurgence after being added to Netflix. The Dead Don't Die was launched to the top of Netflix's rankings once it was readily available to widespread audiences. Despite The Dead Don't Die being a comedy, it still features the violence and gore that is often seen in zombie movies, making for an entertaining and dark combination of genres.

Fern (Eszter Balint...

It took Richard Shepard years to get out of “movie jail” after he made “The Linguini Incident,” the nearly-forgotten 1991 crime comedy starring David Bowie and Rosanna Arquette. But now the film is getting a second chance, with a series of screenings and an upcoming Blu-ray release.

Just about everything went wrong with the production that could go wrong, Shepard recalls. “I made this movie when I was 25 — and I was no genius at 25,” admits the director, who went on to helm features including “The Perfection” as well as TV series like Lena Dunham’s HBO comedy “Girls.”

Unlike Dunham, who was “in complete control of her artistic self” at that age, “I was not,” says Shepard.

But when his original co-producer, Sarah Jackson, suggested he try to rerelease a director’s cut of the scrappy indie caper about two restaurant employees who decide to rob their bosses, Shepard jumped at...

Original editions of one of the most highly valued records in hip-hop will be available to the public again next month when the estate of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat releases 50 copies of Beat Bop, a collaboration between rappers Rammellzee and K-Rob, which features Basquiat’s artwork on the cover. Some original copies have sold for upward of $100,000. The copies available from the artist’s estate, however, will go for $4,000 each and be available via Phillips’ Dropshop starting next Thursday.

Basquiat produced the 10-minute track and released it in 1983. The cover art...

John Lurie is among the most underrated names in Hollywood history, with status as a household name eluding his grasp since he began working at the end of the 1970s. He first debuted as an actor in an unknown stint called Rome '78 (1978), followed by a featurette titled Men in Orbit (1979), which he also wrote and directed. He then starred in a minor Super 8 film called The Offenders (1980) before playing a Saxophonist in Permanent Vacation (1980). The latter film was written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, beginning the greatest partnership of Lurie's career.

The pair worked together on three more projects before the decade would come to a close. But of their other projects, Lurie would only act in two: Stranger Than Paradise (1984) and Down by Law (1986). In their other collaboration, called Mystery Train (1989), he'd compose the score. That's his other line of work re: the film industry. Score composition. He's...

One Shot is a series that seeks to find an essence of cinema history in one single image of a movie. Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise (1984) is showing May 15 - June 14, 2020 in many countries in the series "Outlaws and Misfits: Jim Jarmusch's Cinema of Outsiders."“We can bet that this film will be a flop,” blurbed Jean Eustache about his fellow post-New-Wave underachiever and pal Luc Moullet’s Anatomy of a Relationship (1975), an early exercise in self-scrutiny coauthored by Moullet’s partner Antoinetta Pizzorno. “That’s the best for me: I’ll plunder it more easily.” In comparable fashion, a 1964 commercial flop made by one of the masters of both Eustache and Moullet, Jean-Luc Godard—who incidentally had helped to launch the careers of both of these disciples—was successfully plundered by Jim Jarmusch twenty years later in Stranger Than Paradise. More specifically, Jarmusch appropriated a black-on-white principle exploited...

Stars: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Selena Gomez, Austin Butler, Luka Sabbat, Rosie Perez, Eszter Balint, Iggy Pop, Sara Driver, RZA, Carol Kane, Larry Fessenden, Tom Waits | Written and Directed by Jim Jarmusch

The Dead Don’t Die is the latest feature from director Jim Jarmusch and stars a gigantic cast list of Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Selena Gomez, Tilda Swinton and RZA, to name just a few. The film follows three police officers of Chief Cliff Robertson (Murray), Officer Ronnie Peterson (Driver) and Officer Mindy Morrison (Chloë Sevigny) in the peaceful middle American town of Centerville, of which finds itself and the characters battling an onslaught of a Zombie invasion.

Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die, on a very surface level approach, is equivalent to that of Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead. A sweeping comedic venture into the genre of horror.

1. DRIFTDead Man (1995)Drift, like the sort of drift that whisks Johnny Depp along a Native American river to the afterlife, is the chief abstract quality that lends the films of Jim Jarmusch their poetic power.One wafts through a Jarmusch film never quite sure what end-goal he has in mind—if he has one at all. It’s a calculated and it’s a composed drift, one that’s easy and pleasurable to get caught up in—especially when one sees his films back to back, one after the other, misremembering whether this scene came from that film. Consuming these films in such a fashion, as I did recently at the Metrograph in New York City, reveals that Jarmusch’s master stroke is his disregard for the logic of plot mechanics (a key move for drifter filmmakers) in favor of serene gusts or currents that wind their way around hard,...

Stars: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Selena Gomez, Austin Butler, Luka Sabbat, Rosie Perez, Eszter Balint, Iggy Pop, Sara Driver, RZA, Carol Kane, Larry Fessenden, Tom Waits | Written and Directed by Jim Jarmusch

Jim Jarmusch brings his signature deadpan style to this ensemble horror comedy, which attempts to do for zombies what the idiosyncratic writer-director did for vampires in 2013′s Only Lovers Left Alive. Unfortunately, despite a promising first act, The Dead Don’t Die quickly runs out of ideas and the end result is disappointing.

Jarmusch regulars Bill Murray and Adam Driver play Cliff and Ronnie, two laid-back cops in smalltown Centreville who suddenly have to deal with the dead rising from the grave and eating the locals, thanks to a zombie apocalypse that may or may not have anything to do with the fact that “polar fracking” has knocked the planet off its axis.

A long and rich history with the festival since 1984’s Stranger Than Paradise premiered on the Croisette and won the Caméra d’or 1984, Jim Jarmusch returns to the comp for an eighth time with 72nd film fest edition opener emphasizing the word dead in deadpan The Dead Don’t Die. Coined as “the greatest zombies cast ever disassembled” this Focus Features knee-slapper sees the American indie giant work with Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Selena Gomez, RZA, Sara Driver, Austin Butler, Luka Sabbat, Eszter Balint, Carol Kane and the cooky Tom Waits.…...

Head over to Greenwich Village, go up Bleecker Street, just a few blocks past 6th Avenue, and then make a left. Keep walking until you get to 42 Carmine Street. That’s where you’ll find Rick Kelly. The Long Island native with the gray hair and the slightly oversized black t-shirt might be ambling around the retail section of the storefront, which he opened up in 1990. He might be talking to his elderly mom Dorothy, who balances the books, answers the phones and dusts the framed pics of Kelly standing...

“Carmine Street Guitars” is a one-of-a-kind documentary that exudes a gentle, homespun magic. It’s a no-fuss, 80-minute-long portrait of Rick Kelly, who builds and sells custom guitars out of a modest storefront on Carmine Street in New York’s Greenwich Village, and the film touches on obsessions that have been popping up, like fragrant weeds, in the world of documentary. “Carmine Street Guitars” is all about the weirdly grounded pleasures of analog culture; about the glory of hand-made artisanal objects in a world dominated by mass corporate production; about the aging, and persistence, of old-school jazz and rock ‘n’ roll; about the fading of bohemia in a world of rising rents, omnivorous bottom lines, and chain-store values; and about how all those themes fuse into a Zen ideal of doing what you love and loving what you do.

The film sounds earnest and touching in a minor, twilight-of-the-’60s way.

The 72nd Edition of the Cannes International Film Festival has set its opening night film as Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don’t Die.”

Jarmusch’s zombie comedy stars Adam Driver, Bill Murray and Tilda Swinton. It will make its world premiere at the festival on Tuesday, May 14 on the screen of the Grand Théâtre Lumière.

“The Dead Don’t Die” will also play in competition for the Palme d’Or.

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Read the film’s official description below:

In the sleepy small town of Centerville, something is not quite right. The moon hangs large and low in the sky, the hours of daylight are becoming unpredictable and animals are beginning to exhibit unusual behaviors. No one quite knows why. News reports are scary and scientists are concerned. But no one foresees the strangest and most...

Rick Kelly with Anne-Katrin Titze at Carmine Street Guitars on instigator Jim Jarmusch: "I really like The Limits of Control because there's some of my dialogue that's in that movie." Photo: Ed Bahlman

In Ron Mann's welcoming Carmine Street Guitars (a New York Film Festival highlight in Spotlight on Documentary), dedicated to Jonathan Demme, featuring the mastery of Rick Kelly and Cindy Hulej we go into the woods.

Jim Jarmusch, along with Eszter Balint, Patti Smith's Lenny Kaye, Bill Frisell, Charlie Sexton, Marc Ribot (Alexandre Moors' The Yellow Birds), Eleanor Friedberger, Christine Bougie of the Bahamas, Wilko's Nels Cline, The Roots' Kirk Douglas, Jamie Hince of The Kills, Lou Reed's guitar tech Stewart Hurwood, Dallas Good and Travis Good of The Sadies, who also composed the music for the documentary, all appear in the shop and play guitar except one.

Rick Kelly: "I really...

Jim Jarmusch, Eszter Balint, Lenny Kaye, Bill Frisell, Charlie Sexton and Marc Ribot appear in Ron Mann's Carmine Street Guitars Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the 56th New York Film Festival Spotlight on Documentary selections this afternoon. The programme includes Tom Volf's Maria By Callas; Mark Bozek's The Times Of Bill Cunningham, narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker; Charles Ferguson's Watergate with interviews of Lesley Stahl, Dan Rather, Pat Buchanan, and John Dean; Alexis Bloom's Divide And Conquer: The Story Of Roger Ailes At Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, and American Dharma directed by Errol Morris.

There are 14 documentaries in all chosen by Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones, Dennis Lim, Film Society of Lincoln Center Director of Programming, and Florence Almozini, Film Society of Lincoln Center Associate Director of Programming.

Tickets for the 56th New York Film...

One night, over dinner with friends in 2014, conversation turned to the latest season of “Louie,” Louis C.K.’s popular FX show. C.K. wrote, directed, and produced the show, in addition to playing the titular character, a fictionalized version of himself. As fans, we lamented the possibility that the auteur comedian might have lost his touch. In particular, we agreed that a mid-season arc, in which he pursued a relationship with a Hungarian woman who didn’t speak English, felt messy. Ruminating on why it didn’t sit well, my friend delivered this baffled kicker: “How did no one notice that Louie raped someone last season?”

Allegations of sexual misconduct against C.K. are no longer allegations. In an article by The New York Times published Thursday, five women claimed C.K. had non-consensually masturbated in front of or while on the phone with them. At the time, all of...

The Big Bang Theory: E4, 8pm

In the season finale, Sheldon (Jim Parsons) is unhappy to find out that Penny (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki) don't want to live with him once they are married. When Amy (Mayim Bialik) suggests that he moves in with her, he refuses and his last nerve is broken when Stuart's comic book store burns down.

Meanwhile, Raj (Kunal Nayyar) and Emily (Laura Spencer) also have big news, and Howard (Simon Helberg) realises that he is unable to keep hold of a carer for his mother.

The Honourable Woman: BBC Two, 9pm

The political thriller continues as Hayden-Hoyle (Stephen Rea) begins to investigate the murder of Meshal in the hunt for Atika's (Lubna Azabal) son, but he is blocked by the CIA, forcing the MI6 chief to direct his attention elsewhere.

Nessa's (Maggie Gyllenhaal) past is dug up when she receives a...

Celebrity MasterChef: BBC One, 9pm

It's the third heat of the culinary competition, and 5 new celebrities take on the challenge to become MasterChef.

Trying to impress judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace are dancer and choreographer Wayne Sleep, one-time EastEnder Alex Ferns, actress Leslie Ash, TV presenter Tania Bryer and former Made in Chelsea star Millie Mackintosh.

The celebrities are put through three tests before Wallace and Torode must decide who will be hanging up his or her apron.

The Good Wife: More4, 9pm

The season finale of the American drama sees Alicia (Julianna Margulies) have a chance encounter with a charming entrepreneur.

After a camera is mistakenly left on after a teleconference, Alicia and Cary (Matt Czuchry) are surprised to learn of a new threat to the firm. The fate of Lockhart, Gardner and Canning hangs in the balance as Louis (Michael J Fox) vies for a bigger role.

How our relationship with movies evolves is intricately bound to our own changing perspectives, and to the medium's ever shifting context, forming a perpetually shifting dynamic. This new column borrows the namesake of one of my favorite films for that reason. Cinephilia itself is a sort of journey, and I’m no longer naïve enough (but still hopefully naïve!) to think that it’s one with a conclusion, or even a safe plateau one can reach. Likewise, life is some sort of movement homeward, where home is not a 'place,' but a pursuit of 'something.' For me these two odysseys run in parallel—hence, a long voyage home.

This column, for which I hope to prepare an entry every two weeks, ultimately has no unifying theme or format. One piece may be a review, the next a single observation, an image piece, a video essay...and hopefully things...

A review of tonight's "Louie" episodes coming up just as soon as my hydrogen collection is awesome... "But there's gotta be a way to decide which one's going to make me happy." -Louie As we get further into the six-part saga that is "Elevator," it's now clear that the Jane prologue from Part 1 last week wasn't an isolated sketch, but part of this larger story of Louie struggling, as usual, to relate to all of the women in his life — where he's so screwed up that the one woman he can come close to understanding is the one with whom he doesn't share a common language. Once upon a time, his daughters seemed immune from this failing of his, but they're getting older and more complicated. Jane has turned out to be a square peg at a public school that only offers round holes, and she's too smart and...

Feature James Peaty 8 Mar 2013 - 06:24

With Sundance London fast approaching, we've highlighted ten Sundance films you really should watch...

For nearly 30 years the Sundance Film Festival has been the pre-eminent North American independent film showcase. Helping to make the names and careers of filmmakers as diverse as Steven Soderbergh, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino Bryan Singer and Christopher Nolan the festival's reach has now spread even further thanks to the inaugural Sundance London show in 2012.

But despite Sundance’s enviable influence at the top of the film tree not every movie – or even award winner – shown at the festival ends up becoming as ubiquitous as Sex, Lies and Videotape or Clerks.

Fast approaching is the Sundance London 2013 festival (full details on that are here), whose line-up is set to be announced on March 11th. The event runs from 25-28 April, and tickets go on sale at the end of next week.

This smorgasbord offers up David Bowie, Rosanna Arquette and a variety of other spicy treats that will appeal to some and turn off others. It's just that kind of film. It's offbeat and not only does it know it, it flaunts it.

Director/co-writer Richard Shepard has concocted a bizarre story on a rather small scale, giving it all an illusion of largeness by an enormous restaurant set and the inclusion of star-of-all-trades, Bowie.

Bowie's presence certainly adds an electricity to the proceedings. So much so, that at first he threatens to overwhelm everything around him. It is to Shepard's and the rest of the cast's credit, that ultimately they each hold their own, as it were.

This oddball flick obviously is not geared toward a mainstream audience. This is art-house crowd, or pseudo-art-house crowd, material to be sure. But the appeal of Bowie and Arquette, as well as that of the rest of this eclectic cast, will certainly give it a lift at the boxoffice.

Lucy (Arquette) is a waitress in a chic-du-jour Manhattan restaurant, although her heart belongs to the art of escaping . . . chains, that is. Obsessed with Harry Houdini, Lucy tries to emulate her hero and almost hangs herself in the process.

Her innovative brassiere designing friend, Viv (Eszter Balint, a Jarmusch alumnus), who also doubles as her assistant, has her own hopes of becoming a bra queen.

Enter Monte (Bowie), a suave Brit who is in desperate need of a wife. Apparently, if he doesn't get married by Friday not only won't he get his Green Card, but he'll be killed as well. Bummer.

This Mystery Man takes an interest in the befuddled Lucy, and before you can say "Linguini marinara, '' Lucy and Viv (sound familiar?) and Monte plan to rob the restaurant owned by the highly entertaining Dante (Andre Gregory) and Cecil (Buck Henry).

The rest of the film involves a wild bet and a series of set-ups for some very funny physical comedy. Arquette proves to be cutely adept at this type of humor and is a nice contrast to Bowie's smooth veneer. Balint also maintains her status as an eccentric comic foible.

But few performers other than Bowie could say with a straight face, "I thought that rabbit was eating your head, '' and get away with it so effortlessly. It's both a curious and welcome treat finding Bowie in this bascially light comedy. He plays himself so well.

"The Linguini Incident'' tends to forget the recipe every so often, but by adding in a few surprise ingredients and a dash of irreverence it makes for an interesting meal.

THE LINGUINI INCIDENT

An Acedemy Entertainment Release

Director Richard Shepard

Writers amar Brott, Richard Shepard

Director of photography Robert Yeoman

Editor Tonya Polonsky

Music Thomas Newman

Producer Arnold Orgolini

Color

Cast:

Lucy Rosanna Arquette

Monte David Bowie

Viv Eszter Balint

Cecil Buck Henry

Dante Andre Gregory

Miracle Viveca Lindfors

Jeanette Marlee Matlin

Running time -- 99 minutes

MPAA Rating -- R

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