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...
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 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.
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...
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 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.