• A fringe recommendation and entry in the archives but I think there’s enough there that formally connects with Jarmusch’s oeuvre—even if this doesn’t sniff his 1984 follow-up Strangers in Paradise
  • Inspired by Chantel Ackerman with the final shot of the NYC skyline from the boat that just holds – a very cool shot)
  • 16mm in color, 75 minutes student film
  • Jazz, Graffiti, very urban fish out of water— sirens, reading  poetry
the beginning for formal master Jim Jarmusch- urban, chic
  • Love the opening- rhythmically edited with voice over, setting and surrounding- it’s really a montage of a series of empty rooms
  • Hair art meets urban squalor meets Nicholas Ray (which also feels like a nod to Godard and the New Wave rebel spirit) and song from the Angels “my boyfriend’s back” which is where the title comes from
  • Poster cover great image/scene of Chris Parker’s skinny body dancing to jazz in a tiny apartment with bed on the floor
  • Some rough unhidden editing
  • Building rubble, grime – I see some Wim Wenders Kings of the Road (this is nowhere near that level)
  • Bad acting
  • Walking vacant streets, crazy people, plotless form and repetition
  • Chimes and jazz score
  • Narrative connective tissues for Jarmusch- a bounder, a loner fish out of water
  • Recommend barely