When: 6pm, Saturday 7th September.
Where: Chapel Cinema, The Gallery Cafe, 21 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, E2 9PL.
Entry: FREE
Down By Law
1986 | 107 min | Black & White | USA
To celebrate the completion of our debut feature film, Noirish Project, we will be screening Jim Jarmusch’s Down By Law. It’s a personal favourite and a film many have been wanting to see up on the big screen for many years. Hope to see you there.
“A neo-beat noir comedy”
“Director Jim Jarmusch followed up his brilliant breakout film Stranger Than Paradise with another, equally beloved portrait of loners and misfits in the American landscape. When fate brings together three hapless men—an unemployed disc jockey (Tom Waits), a small-time pimp (John Lurie), and a strong-willed Italian tourist (Roberto Benigni)—in a Louisiana prison, a singular adventure ensues. Described by Jarmusch as a “neo-Beat noir comedy,” Down by Law is part nightmare and part fairy tale, featuring sterling performances and crisp black-and-white cinematography by the esteemed Robby Müller.” via The Criterion Collection.
JIM JARMUSCH NOTES ON THE FILM
“This story will be shot in black & white, 35mm, very fine-grain (Eastman Plus-X). The story falls into no genre (other than my own : post-neo-social-realist-semi-comedy in black & white).
The story takes place in and around NEW ORLEANS, and is, in part, a ‘prison film’. These elements sugest certain clichés to me, which I intend the film to evoke without directly employing . the smoldering Louisianna sun, run-down hotels and bordellos, the Zydeco blues of Clifton Chenier, etc., landscapes punctuated by the sad shapes of cypress trees dripping with Spanish moss, chain gangs, swampland, Cajun French, the wrong-iron balconies of New Orleans, etc.
I would like the soundtrack music for the film to consist of minimally and untraditionally constructed ACCORDION and HARMONICA duets.”
-JIM JARMUSCH
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