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James Robert Jarmusch is an American filmmaker and musician.
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entertainment · American filmmaker (born 1953) · film director · actor · screenwriter · film producer · writer · film editor · musician · director · also Jim Jarmusch, James Roberto "Jim" Jarmusch, James Roberto Jarmusch, Jarmusch
Born 22 January 1953 · Q191755
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t Die featuring an ensemble cast which included performances from Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Tilda Swinton, Carol Kane, and Selena Gomez. The film premiered at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival and received mixed reviews. It was distributed by Focus Features. Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote,
Awarded Officer of Arts and Letters (2016).
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“t Die featuring an ensemble cast which included performances from Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Tilda Swinton, Carol Kane, and Selena Gomez. The film premiered at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival and received mixed reviews. It was distributed by Focus Features. Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote,”
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The Guardian: ‘I’m not a commercial director – I’m not even a professional film-maker’: Jim Jarmusch on the seven-year journey to make his new film
Released album “Father Mother Sister Brother (Original Music From The Film)”.
brooklynvegan: Jim Jarmusch & Anika announce collab score for new film 'Father Mother Sister Brother' (that stars Tom Waits)
The Guardian: Lynne Ramsay’s passion, Jim Jarmusch’s star turn and knives come out again: Peter Bradshaw’s London film festival picks
The Guardian: Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, starring Cate Blanchett, surprise winner of Venice Golden Lion
Released album “The Day the Angels Cried”.
Los Angeles Times: Jim Jarmusch gets dark: Indie filmmaker reveals his latest artistic turn in L.A. show
brooklynvegan: Jim Jarmusch & Jozef Van Wissem touring, hint at new music
Yahoo: Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan Discuss Their Score For Man Ray’s ‘Return To Reason’: “It’s Like Ecstatic Music” – Cannes Film Festival
The Guardian: ‘The film industry is gone’: Jim Jarmusch on the his debut album, the death of filmmaking and the joy of mistakes
Sqürl announced its debut album Silver Haze and released lead single "Berlin '87"
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Released album “American Landscapes”.
Hyperallergic: Jim Jarmusch's Forays Into Collage
Released album “Churning of the Ocean”.
IndieWire: Jim Jarmusch Directs Julianne Moore, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Indya Moore in Saint Laurent Short — Watch
The Guardian: Jim Jarmusch: ‘I’m for the survival of beauty. I’m for the mystery of life’
Released album “Lee Ranaldo / Jim Jarmusch / Marc Urselli / Balázs Pándi”.
Released album “An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil”.
Awarded Officer of Arts and Letters (2016).
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In a February 2014 interview, Jarmusch stated that he is not interested in eternal life, as "there's something about the cycle of life that's very important, and to have that removed would be a burden".
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Jarmusch shunned the "auteur theory" and likened the filmmaking process to human sexual reproduction:
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Released album “The Mystery of Heaven”.
Released album “Concerning the Entrance Into Eternity”.
The 2019 release An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil (Sacred Bones Records) and in 2025 The Day the Angels cried (Incunabulum Records)
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Released album “Apokatastasis”.
For the Criterion Blu-ray release of Mystery Train
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Jarmusch appeared as himself in an episode of the HBO series Bored to Death, and the following year, Jarmusch helped to curate the All Tomorrow's Parties music festival in Monticello, New York
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Jarmusch released The Limits of Control, a sparse, meditative crime film set in Spain, it starred Isaach de Bankolé as a lone assassin with a secretive mission
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Awarded Carrosse d'or (2008).
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Jarmusch received Carrosse d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival
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At which time the lute player handed the director a CD
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Awarded Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix for Broken Flowers (2005).
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With Broken Flowers, which starred Bill Murray as an early retiree who goes in search of the mother of his unknown son in attempt to overcome a midlife crisis
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Won the Grand Prix of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival for his film Broken Flowers
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Jarmusch was honored with the "Filmmaker on the Edge Award" at the Provincetown International Film Festival
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Was laureate of the Douglas Sirk Preis at Filmfest Hamburg, Germany
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Awarded European Film Award for Best Non-European Film for Dead Man (1996).
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Jarmusch released Dead Man, a period film set in the 19th century American West starring Johnny Depp and Gary Farmer
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Awarded Short Film Palme d'Or for Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California (1993).
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With the Short Film Palme d'Or-winning "Somewhere in California", starring musicians Tom Waits and Iggy Pop
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Jarmusch appeared as himself in Episode One of John Lurie's cult television series Fishing With John
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As a used car dealer in the cult comedy Leningrad Cowboys Go America further solidified his interest and participation in the road movie genre
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Awarded Film Independent Spirit Awards for Down by Law (1987).
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And paired Roberto Benigni with comedian Steven Wright
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Jarmusch wrote and directed Down by Law, starring musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits, and Italian comic actor Roberto Benigni (his introduction to American audiences) as three convicts who escape from a New Orleans jailh
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The year of the first installment of Coffee and Cigarettes, although he continues to smoke cigarettes
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Won Golden Leopard for Stranger Than Paradise (1984).
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Awarded Caméra d'Or for Stranger Than Paradise (1984).
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Won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes Film Festival for Stranger Than Paradise
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Jarmusch's film Permanent Vacation won the Josef von Sternberg Award at the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg
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As Permanent Vacation, his first feature film
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Jarmusch moved to Chicago and enrolled in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
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In Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, the second of three children of middle-class suburbanites
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Born 1953-01-22.
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