Stranger Than Paradise

+ intro by film critic and programmer Lucy Peters

Billed as a new kind of American movie, Jim Jarmusch’s hugely impressive second feature leans into Ozu, Bresson and the avant-garde.

  • Director

    Jim Jarmusch

  • With

    John Lurie, Richard Edson, Eszter Balint, Cecillia Stark

  • USA-West Germany 1984. 89min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

Made from leftover film stock donated by Wim Wenders, Stranger Than Paradise is a defining moment in American independent cinema. Embracing minimalism and elegantly shot in black and white by Tom DiCillo, the film explores failures of communication and captures the essence of the road movie: ‘when you come to some place new, everything looks the same’.

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