$10 ShowNews Screening: Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

Each month ShowNews presents a film at Academy Cinemas picked by a special film industry guest. For April, Director Josh Frizzell has chosen the debut film of the director of ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE & MYSTERY TRAIN: STRANGER THAN PARADISE!

Happy Hour drinks from 7:00pm.
Screening 8:15pm.
$10 Tickets!

Directed by Jim Jarmusch

Starring John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark

Rated PG
89 minutes

With this breakout film, Jim Jarmusch established himself as one of the most exciting voices in the burgeoning independent-film scene, a road-movie poet with an affinity for Americana at its most offbeat. Jarmusch follows rootless Hungarian émigré Willie (John Lurie), his pal Eddie (Richard Edson), and his visiting sixteen-year-old cousin, Eva (Eszter Balint), as they drift from New York’s Lower East Side to the snowy expanses of Lake Erie and the drab beaches of Florida, always managing to make the least of wherever they end up. Structured as a series of master-shot vignettes etched in black and white by cinematographer Tom DiCillo, STRANGER THAN PARADISE is a nonchalant masterpiece of deadpan comedy and perfectly calibrated minimalism.

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