Jim Jarmusch is certainly one of my neglected directors and I should watch his films. I've now caught up with the memoir and in general, it has a very flowing prose, repeating themes to tie to earlier parts of the memoir. I hope you are planning to publish this memoir as a book as well...
Indeed, a book! Thank you so for reading--more to come on Thursday. Wrote it live--and added films that jogged the chapters. Jarmusch, so worth watching. So glad we found each other, Dr. Levent!
I must catch up on Jarmusch's films, one of the great ones in independent filmmaking. The last one I watched was "Stranger than Paradise" a long time ago.
Thanks, Mary, for posting the link to the Jarmusch talk. Never watched it and I'm looking forward to it. I was thinking whether surrealism and what's not immediately obvious reveals the truth of who we are. It can give the reader an insight into the author's mind as opposed to the character's.
I don't know about your last thought, but I do know that, since I am the main character of the memoir, that's why I chose this very image to help explain where I am at this moment in time. Thank you for such a thoughtful comment, Isabelle.
I recently re-watched Jim Jarmusch's "Night on Earth" and this chapter makes me realise that that film deals with "art and life and what we can and cannot control, perhaps about how we know what we think we know". Perhaps this is an ongoing theme in Jarmusch's work? In case you haven't seen it yet, "Night on Earth" features stories inside taxis across different countries. They all have a surreal quality to them, especially the Parisian one.
I'm revisiting your memoir Mary and enjoying it again - how you interweave art and history into your experience of life.
“The reading room seduces the way my solitude does. Does my solitude reveal?” ❤️
'Limits of control' appears to be an essential concept for this memoir. Feelings well expressed.
Ah, you so get me, Bill, and why I used the allusion. It's a wonder to be understood.
Jim Jarmusch is certainly one of my neglected directors and I should watch his films. I've now caught up with the memoir and in general, it has a very flowing prose, repeating themes to tie to earlier parts of the memoir. I hope you are planning to publish this memoir as a book as well...
Indeed, a book! Thank you so for reading--more to come on Thursday. Wrote it live--and added films that jogged the chapters. Jarmusch, so worth watching. So glad we found each other, Dr. Levent!
I must catch up on Jarmusch's films, one of the great ones in independent filmmaking. The last one I watched was "Stranger than Paradise" a long time ago.
So glad you're read, but thanks for going back to the beginning! :). Love Jarmusch. ~ Mary
Thanks, Mary, for posting the link to the Jarmusch talk. Never watched it and I'm looking forward to it. I was thinking whether surrealism and what's not immediately obvious reveals the truth of who we are. It can give the reader an insight into the author's mind as opposed to the character's.
I don't know about your last thought, but I do know that, since I am the main character of the memoir, that's why I chose this very image to help explain where I am at this moment in time. Thank you for such a thoughtful comment, Isabelle.
I recently re-watched Jim Jarmusch's "Night on Earth" and this chapter makes me realise that that film deals with "art and life and what we can and cannot control, perhaps about how we know what we think we know". Perhaps this is an ongoing theme in Jarmusch's work? In case you haven't seen it yet, "Night on Earth" features stories inside taxis across different countries. They all have a surreal quality to them, especially the Parisian one.
I'm revisiting your memoir Mary and enjoying it again - how you interweave art and history into your experience of life.
I love Jim Jarmusch, as you can tell, and missed that one--a must see. Thank you, Ollie.