Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has spoken out against indie film distributor Mubi after learning the company received investment from Sequoia Capital, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital film with ties to the Israeli military. Mubi co-produced the director’s latest effort, Father Mother Sister Brother, which premiered yesterday at the Venice International Film …
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Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has assembled a characteristically stacked cast to dig into some prickly family dynamics in the new teaser for his next film, Father Mother Sister Brother. Like some of Jarmusch’s most renowned works — Mystery Train, Night on Earth, Coffee and Cigarettes — Father Mother Sister Brother is …
Read More »'Fremont' Is the Best Kind of Indie-Movie Throwback
A long time ago, in what might as well have been a galaxy far, far away, Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) was a translator for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. Now, this young woman lives in the Bay Area town of Fremont, a stone’s throw from Silicon Valley and a dozen …
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Anyone who hears the Crystal Method’s new single “Post Punk” may recognize a familiar voice laced throughout it: “I don’t want to be a punk. I don’t want to belong to any of it. I just want to be.” It sounds just like Iggy Pop talking about the Stooges in …
Read More »Bill Murray, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, RZA to Star in Jim Jarmusch Zombie Film
Jim Jarmusch‘s zombie film, The Dead Don’t Die, which stars Bill Murray, will premiere in theaters on June 14th. Directed and written by Jarmusch, it has an all-star cast that film distributor Focus Features describes as “the greatest zombie cast ever disassembled.” Details regarding the plot have not yet been …
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