Jim Jarmusch

Jim Jarmusch was born in Ohio in 1953. He first intended to become a poet and studied English literature at Columbia; during an exchange in his final year, he spent about ten months in Paris, where he frequented the Cinémathèque française, then obtained his degree in 1975. He entered the film school of New York University and became the assistant of Nicholas Ray, who taught there. He shot his first feature film in 1980, produces his films outside the studios, works with the same loyal actors from one film to the next and keeps the rights and negatives of all his films.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaStranger than ParadiseJim Jarmusch · 1984Cinema
• CinemaGhost Dog: The Way of the SamuraiJim Jarmusch · 1999Cinema