Jan 18 movie: Night on Earth. This is my favorite Jim Jarmusch movie. It's about five taxi rides that take place simultaneously in five cities: Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki. I guess you could call it a "slice of life" movie because each segment is basically just spending time with the characters, getting to know them. No life lessons or morals are learned, no one changes (well, with one major exception). So it's five slices of life, in five cities. My favorite segment is the one in Paris, with a fed up driver from the Ivory Coast and a harsh blind woman. You think he's learned something from her in a "very special episode" sort of way, but the seconds after he drops her off make it clear that he's exactly the same guy he was before he met her. I love this movie.
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You've totally made me want to re-watch NoE. When I first saw it, I was vaguely disappointed (my fave Jim Jarmusch is "Dead Man," and the two films couldn't be any different). But I recently rewatched "Stranger Than Paradise," which has the same deadpan lack of character development (but less humor, if I'm right, and no Roberto Benigni), and I loved it.
Are you a fan of Jarmusch's pal Aki Kaurism臾i ("Leningrad Cowboys Go America," "The Match Factory Girl")? I saw his recent "The Man Without a Past" and thought it was the best film of 2003...!