Stranger Than Paradise

Stranger Than Paradise


Starring:John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark, Danny Rosen, Rammellzee, Tom DiCillo, Richard Boes, Rockets Redglare, Harvey Perr, Brian J. Burchill, Sara Driver, Paul Sloane
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD
Stranger Than Paradise
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    ASIN: B000SFJ4HW
    Release Date: 2007-09-04
    Stranger Than Paradise
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    		 Stranger Than Paradise
    Starring: John Lurie , Eszter Balint , Richard Edson , Cecillia Stark , and Danny Rosen
    Director: Jim Jarmusch
    Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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    Release Date: 2000-09-05

    Customer Reviews:

    2 out of 5 stars bored.......2007-03-18

    i ain't no philistine. subtlties were lost on me. check out "down by law."
    that movie is a straight up 100 percent masterpiece and succeeds in every aspect that i feel this film failed in.

    5 out of 5 stars WELCOME TO AMERICA ONLY IT GETS MUCH MUCH WORSE.......2006-10-14

    Road film for the eighties: From Bing and Bob in the forties to Dennis and Peter in the sixties and now this in the eighties. Welcome to America. Where is the wonder? Where is the song?

    This movie is the best representation of where we have come from and of where we went wrong. Where is that American Dream?

    Please see this movie deeply. Let it take time. Watch Mystery Train and Ghost Dog too. You will see what there is to see and what is only whispered.

    Why movies? This is why. Watch.
    Nuff sed.

    After this film grab a real human being by the hand and hold on tightly.
    Or get a small cool old school black hat full of no hope and squeeze in.

    This film comes real cheap.

    You'll never see the inside of a hotel room the same way again.

    This is what My Name's Earl WANTS TO BE BUT NEVER WILL DARE TO BE.

    Turn this on instead and tune in.

    Throw this frisbee no further than your DVD box, but deeper than your deepest understanding.

    1 out of 5 stars How Strange That Anyone Could Endure It.......2006-06-13

    The most astonishing thing about this film - stranger than paradise or hell could ever be - is that anyone let Jarmusch make another film after it wrapped. (That it won Best First Feature at Cannes in 1984 shakes one's faith in a rational universe.)

    STP easily ranks as one of the worst movies ever made, it is so vapid and purposeless that at times one almost senses that the characters on screen are looking straight into the camera as if to say, "Please, please give us something to do, we just can't take another minute of this torture!"

    Watching Stranger Than Paradise one feels compelled to laugh as the realization hits - Jarmusch wants this movie to be boring, slow, vacant, tedious, and gloomy, in short - lacking any quality that might be considered redemptive. He has a terribly clever, art-house idea; he wants to recreate the bleak existentialism of Samuel Beckett and J.P. Sartre on film, painting meaninglessness and pointlessness in broad strokes, black and white, hollow lives played out in the absence of hope, value, or passion.

    What Jarmusch has missed, however, is that these writers portrayed their philosophical viewpoint in endlessly fascinating ways, masterfully crafting characters and situations. A boring, idiotic movie doesn't become interesting or consequential just because you say, after the fact, "I intended to make a boring and idiotic movie." That the art-house crowd fell for Stranger Than Paradise only shows that painfully chic intellectuals with delusions of hippitudinousness are more easily deceived than children - children can spot a naked emperor.

    While it's hard to criticize a man who's worked Screamin' Jay Hawkins into two of his movies, (Mystery Train), good taste in music in not nearly enough to absolve Jarmusch. Repeated viewings will cause you to be dumbstruck with wonder over and over as you wrestle with the idea that Stranger Than Paradise is as bad as it is on purpose. Deep as a Frisbee, and with luck, you might be able to fling it as far.

    5 out of 5 stars stranger than anything.......2005-12-08

    A Hungarian girl goes to visit her cousin who lives in the ugliest apartment in the ugliest part of New York City; then the cousin and his best friend go to visit the Hungarian girl who now lives in the ugliest house in the ugliest part of Cleveland; then all three of them take a road trip and end up at the ugliest hotel in the ugliest part of Florida. Along the way nothing happens, and then it happens again. A great film, and an important one too, that I thoroughly enjoyed watching.

    5 out of 5 stars The Real World.......2005-07-21

    The real world "Gone With the Wind" & made for a few bucks. All about stuff in the heart that can't go anywhere. Willie & Eddie are the line & Eva is the light. And it's funny! Once again, let's savor Eddie's moment: This time, Eddie knows something that Willie doesn't. Willie & Eddie open a beer & Eddie gets his 15 seconds.
    Stranger Than Paradise [Region 2]
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    • WELCOME TO AMERICA ONLY IT GETS MUCH MUCH WORSE
    • How Strange That Anyone Could Endure It
    • stranger than anything
    • The Real World
    		 Stranger Than Paradise [Region 2]
    Starring: John Lurie , Eszter Balint , Richard Edson , Cecillia Stark , and Danny Rosen
    Director: Jim Jarmusch
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    Customer Reviews:

    2 out of 5 stars bored.......2007-03-18

    i ain't no philistine. subtlties were lost on me. check out "down by law."
    that movie is a straight up 100 percent masterpiece and succeeds in every aspect that i feel this film failed in.

    5 out of 5 stars WELCOME TO AMERICA ONLY IT GETS MUCH MUCH WORSE.......2006-10-14

    Road film for the eighties: From Bing and Bob in the forties to Dennis and Peter in the sixties and now this in the eighties. Welcome to America. Where is the wonder? Where is the song?

    This movie is the best representation of where we have come from and of where we went wrong. Where is that American Dream?

    Please see this movie deeply. Let it take time. Watch Mystery Train and Ghost Dog too. You will see what there is to see and what is only whispered.

    Why movies? This is why. Watch.
    Nuff sed.

    After this film grab a real human being by the hand and hold on tightly.
    Or get a small cool old school black hat full of no hope and squeeze in.

    This film comes real cheap.

    You'll never see the inside of a hotel room the same way again.

    This is what My Name's Earl WANTS TO BE BUT NEVER WILL DARE TO BE.

    Turn this on instead and tune in.

    Throw this frisbee no further than your DVD box, but deeper than your deepest understanding.

    1 out of 5 stars How Strange That Anyone Could Endure It.......2006-06-13

    The most astonishing thing about this film - stranger than paradise or hell could ever be - is that anyone let Jarmusch make another film after it wrapped. (That it won Best First Feature at Cannes in 1984 shakes one's faith in a rational universe.)

    STP easily ranks as one of the worst movies ever made, it is so vapid and purposeless that at times one almost senses that the characters on screen are looking straight into the camera as if to say, "Please, please give us something to do, we just can't take another minute of this torture!"

    Watching Stranger Than Paradise one feels compelled to laugh as the realization hits - Jarmusch wants this movie to be boring, slow, vacant, tedious, and gloomy, in short - lacking any quality that might be considered redemptive. He has a terribly clever, art-house idea; he wants to recreate the bleak existentialism of Samuel Beckett and J.P. Sartre on film, painting meaninglessness and pointlessness in broad strokes, black and white, hollow lives played out in the absence of hope, value, or passion.

    What Jarmusch has missed, however, is that these writers portrayed their philosophical viewpoint in endlessly fascinating ways, masterfully crafting characters and situations. A boring, idiotic movie doesn't become interesting or consequential just because you say, after the fact, "I intended to make a boring and idiotic movie." That the art-house crowd fell for Stranger Than Paradise only shows that painfully chic intellectuals with delusions of hippitudinousness are more easily deceived than children - children can spot a naked emperor.

    While it's hard to criticize a man who's worked Screamin' Jay Hawkins into two of his movies, (Mystery Train), good taste in music in not nearly enough to absolve Jarmusch. Repeated viewings will cause you to be dumbstruck with wonder over and over as you wrestle with the idea that Stranger Than Paradise is as bad as it is on purpose. Deep as a Frisbee, and with luck, you might be able to fling it as far.

    5 out of 5 stars stranger than anything.......2005-12-08

    A Hungarian girl goes to visit her cousin who lives in the ugliest apartment in the ugliest part of New York City; then the cousin and his best friend go to visit the Hungarian girl who now lives in the ugliest house in the ugliest part of Cleveland; then all three of them take a road trip and end up at the ugliest hotel in the ugliest part of Florida. Along the way nothing happens, and then it happens again. A great film, and an important one too, that I thoroughly enjoyed watching.

    5 out of 5 stars The Real World.......2005-07-21

    The real world "Gone With the Wind" & made for a few bucks. All about stuff in the heart that can't go anywhere. Willie & Eddie are the line & Eva is the light. And it's funny! Once again, let's savor Eddie's moment: This time, Eddie knows something that Willie doesn't. Willie & Eddie open a beer & Eddie gets his 15 seconds.
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      		Kollekciya - Jim Jarmusch. Bolee stranno, chem v rayu / Jim Jarmusch`s Collection. Stranger Than Paradise
      Director: Jim Jarmusch
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      Dzhon Lur'e ("Lishnij bagazh", "Zverofabrika"), Richard JEdson ("Strannye dni", "Kontrol'nyj vystrel"), Tom Di CHillo ("Naperekosjak", "Kofe i sigarety") i Richard Boz ("Otpusk bez konca", "Noch' na zemle") v chernoj komedii Dzhima Dzharmusha ("Pes-prizrak: Put' samuraja") - "Bolee stranno, chem v raju". Skuchajuwie molodye ljudi Villi i JEddi - bezdel'niki i igroki. Ih zhizn' - takaja zhe zathlaja pomojka, kak i kvartal Manhettena, v kotorom oni obitajut. Odnako v odin prekrasnyj den' k Villi priezzhaet junaja kuzina Eva iz Vengrii, i postepenno druz'ja reshajutsja na peremeny... Obydennost' v ispolnenii Dzharmusha predstajot samoj neverojatnoj fantasmagoriej, kakuju tol'ko mozhno sebe predstavit'. Kak v solnechnom spletenii, v jetoj kartine soshlis' rannij Venders, pereosmyslennyj do neuznavaemosti nuar i chjorno-belaja jestetika amerikanskoj truwoby, kotoraja sleduet za gerojami Dzharmusha neotstupno, dazhe esli te uehali iskat' schast'ja vo Floridu. <
      Stranger Than Paradise [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ]
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        		Stranger Than Paradise [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ]
        Director: Jim Jarmusch
        Manufacturer: AV Channel
        ProductGroup: DVD
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        Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Mono), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SYNOPSIS: Although Jim Jarmusch made his directorial debut with Permanent Vacation (1982), Stranger than Paradise (1984) marked his breakthrough as a major American filmmaker. One of the most deadpan comedies ever committed to film, Stranger than Paradise suggests a Buster Keaton film written by Samuel Beckett and Jack Kerouac and directed by Andy Warhol. Willie (John Lurie) is a small-time gambler whose distant cousin Eva (Eszter Balint) is moving to America from Eastern Europe and informs him that she'll need to stay with him for ten days. Willie isn't happy to have Eva around, but after Willie introduces her to the joys of American cigarettes and TV dinners ('You got your meat, you got your potatoes, you got your vegetables, you got your dessert and you don't have to wash the dishes -- this is how we eat in America!'), Eva steals a frozen meal and a pack of smokes from the corner store, and Willie is both surprised and impressed. His buddy Eddie (Richard Edson) happens by, and they hang out with Eva just long enough to develop a fondness for her before she moves on to Ohio, where she'll live with her Aunt Lottie (Cecillia Stark). Months later, Willie and Eddie score $600 in a poker game and decide to visit Eva in Ohio. However, it's the dead of winter, and they have nothing to do except look at the frozen surface of the lake. The three eventually head down to the tacky paradise of Miami, where Willie and Eddie try their luck with the ponies and Eva decides what to do next. Stranger than Paradise is a film that defines the notion, 'It's not what you say, but how you say it.' SPECIAL FEATURES: Behind the scenes, Interactive Menu, Scene Access,
        Kollekciya Jima Jarmuscha. Bolee stranno, chem v rayu / Stranger Than Paradise
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