Jim Jarmusch Archives

Mystery Train (1989)

Rating: ★★★★

Sep 2, 2011Anthology of Tales from a Memphis Hotel/Ghost of Elvis

Dry, typically laconic trio of tales from Jim Jarmusch set around characters at a Memphis hotel. Included here for one episode featuring an appearance of the ghost of Elvis

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Actors: Screamin Jay Hawkins, Cinque Lee, Youki Kudoh, Masatoshi Nagase, …

Category: Fantasy

2 September 201121 September 2026 by Roog

The Limits of Control (2009)

Rating: ★★

Aug 13, 2009Cryptic Assignment/Surrealism

Cryptic and baffling Jim Jarmusch film with Isaach De Bankole as a mysterious assassin who passes through a series of enigmatic and surreal conversations

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Actors: Isaach De Bankole, Paz de la Huerta, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, …

Category: Fantasy

13 August 200929 December 2024 by Roog

Individualistic indie director Jim Jarmusch tackles the vampire film. Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston are fantastically well paired as the two bored title lovers. Beautifully filmed but, typical of Jarmusch, one where not a lot happens

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt, …

Category: Horror

26 April 201427 January 2025 by Roog

The Dead Don’t Die (2019)

Rating: ★★½

Sep 14, 2019Zombie Comedy

Jim Jarmusch is one of the foremost American independent directors and here makes his first zombie comedy. The question is is what can he bring to a genre that has been in full-on self-parody mode since Shaun of the Dead

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Actors: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloe Sevigny, …

Category: Horror

14 September 201926 January 2026 by Roog