Mystery Train (Criterion Collection) R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 15, 2010
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Cinqué Lee, Youki Kudoh, Steve Buscemi & Joe Strummer | |
Performer: | Elizabeth Bracco, Masatoshi Nagase, Nicoletta Braschi, Sy Richardson, Tom Noonan, Sara Driver, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Rockets Redglare & Tom Waits | |
Directed by | Jim Jarmusch |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Evocatively photographed...touched with comic inspiration...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3/4 --
Jarmusch finds visual poetry in the run-down, the ignored, and the decrepit, especially via the use of neon colors cutting into the darkness and the gray
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Q Network Film Desk
Happily, Jarmusch's formal inventiveness is framed by a rare flair for zany entertainment ...
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Time Out
Certainly Jarmusch brings back his favorite predilections (and probably always will), but he makes his passengers interesting, kicks the plot off the platform whenever possible and keeps the way ahead refreshingly uncertain.
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Washington Post
Rating: 89/100 --
...has the same weird beauty as a Van Morrison vocal, a mannered eccentricity that somehow cracks open and lays bear the stuttering, fervid heart of what could have been banal material.
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Rating: 4/5 --
It's the best thing Mr. Jarmusch has done to date.
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The best thing about "Mystery Train" is that it takes you to an America you feel you ought to be able to find for yourself, if you only knew where to look.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Jim Jarmusch broadens his scope with this episodic tale of a night in the life of several Memphis, Tennessee, inhabitants who unknowingly find themselves lodging at the same hotel. The first episode, "Far from Yokohama," is about two Japanese teenagers (Youki Kudoh and Masatoshe Nagase) on a pilgrimage to the birthplace of rock and roll, Sun Studios, where Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins got their start. In the second story, "A Ghost," two strangers meet and become friends. One is an Italian tourist, Luisa (Nicoletta Braschi), who is on the way back to Rome in order to bury her husband; the other, Dee Dee (Elizabeth Bracco), has just dumped her British boyfriend, Johnny (Joe Strummer). During the middle of the night, Luisa is visited by the ghost of Elvis. "Lost in Space," the final segment, brings all the characters together briefly, as Johnny goes on a violent drinking spree with Dee Dee's brother (Steve Buscemi) and another friend (Rick Aviles). Throughout all of this, the hotel's night clerk (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) and bellboy (Cinque Lee) listen to the local radio and engage in aimless conversation. Jarmusch once again uses his distinct sense of humor to dispel cultural myths--this time it's the legend of Memphis--by placing an eclectic group of tourists into an unquestionably American environment.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 87,783
- UPC: 715515058711
- Shipping Weight: 0.28/lbs (approx)
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