Blow me blow fish.

I don't think there's enough money in the world to buy a clue for you.

bless your heart.

And you know about Cole Wilson? You heard what he did? Killed his parents, fucked 'em, cooked 'em, and ate 'em. Man ain't got no goddamn conscience, don't ya understand?

for another good interview. I can't wait to see the new JJ movie.

And, bizarrely, it is one of the few films that my entire family can agree on. We love this film. It was the first film I bought on dvd. Strangely, I do not feel the same way about any of his other films. I just found Dead Man to be poetic and sad. I really liked Down by Law as well, but his other films have made no impression on me. Either way, Jim Jarmusch is true to himself and his vision, which inspires admiration in me.

I thought promotion and marketing were bad.

Has got to be "Down by Law."

If you like Tom Waits, you'll like it. Yes, it is slow, yes it is moody. It is filmed in b&w and has a good story to it.

It was my first intro to Jarmusch and I still love it after all these years.

"Coffee and Cigarettes" is also great, although it feels like a documentary, which it isn't.

it's not the point to name something that's good in comparison to "the worst?"

But, in case, yes, I have seen Dead Man. Many times. I own the video. It's one of my favorite movies, ever. I could go on and on about it, but Jonathan Rosenberg at The Chicago Reader covered a lot of the good points, for me. (Ebert, btw, didn't like it.)

Just because something doesn't have a mainstream American aesthetic (turning point, pg. 10, coming up, twist, oh and twist and shout, power ballad from Aerosmith on the muzak-alator) doesn't make it bad.

It makes it different.

It makes it something that you watch because it confounds rather than supports what you know mainstream American film is all about.

Mystery Train is my other favorite from Jarmusch.

But a quick glance at his IMDB page shows that at best, he's made, maybe 5 films. And 3 of them he's made 3 times each. It's easy for people who grind out self absorbed nonsense and who are never asked to make a big budget film to say "That's all beneath me." Have you seen "Dead Man" I doubt if there's a hundred words of dialog in the whole 2 hour movie. That's not a movie that's the flying trashbag in 'American Beauty'.

give some examples of good movies, in your humble opinion, since you are so astute.

but I saw "Broken Flowers" soon after "Lost in Translation" - and it felt like a complete letdown to me.

Just my two cents. Bill Murray deserves better roles.

Made even worse by its utter lack of self awareness that it is bad.

he, along with a few others (the Coen brothers come to mind) are the only reasons to care about film in the U.S. anymore.

most American films are just so predictable, so repetitive, so much wallpaper - in order to see a film that doesn't bore because of its insipid violence/porn or homilies/porn - I watch movies from other countries. Or things like Mad Men.

Jarmusch is a stranger in his own country, and that's a good thing.

but I saw his Bill Murray flick and it made zero impression on me.