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Jim Jarmusch is feeling a little freaked-out. It all started last May at the Cannes film festival, where his latest movie, Broken Flowers, starring Bill Murray, premiered to a standing ovation and won the Grand Prix (second to the Palme d’Or).¹

When “Stranger than Paradise” sidled onto the scene in 1983, Jim Jarmusch became an instant indie cult figure. Since then, the release of each new Jarmusch film has become something of an event, and the current “Coffee and Cigarettes,” is no exception.²

Originally from Akron, Ohio, a young Jim Jarmusch, wanting to be a writer, moved to New York City in 1971 and attended Columbia University where he studied American and English literature. In his last semester before graduation, he went to Paris for a year to study French literature.³

Synopsis: The unique film set within a Karaja village in Brazil’s Mato Grosso, Jim Jarmusch listens while Sam Fuller describes the 1950’s “Tigrero” movie that he was unable to make. It also profiles the Karaja people.⁴

Nineteenth-century Ohio accountant Johnny Depp lands a new job at a frontier town called Machine, but before long he kills a man, is pursued by bounty hunters, and is helped by an Indian who thinks he’s the reincarnation of poet William Blake. It’s a western as only iconoclastic director Jim Jarmusch could make, filled with offbeat humor and mythical symbolism.⁵

With BROKEN FLOWERS, staunchly independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch delivers one of his most pleasing, accessible pictures. Winner of the 2005 Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, the film tells the story of Don Johnston (Bill Murray), a man overflowing with wealth but void of emotion.⁶