Jim Jarmusch at TIFF: A Retrospective Showcases Acclaimed Indie Filmmaker's Offbeat Career

For Toronto moviegoers currently suffering from summer blockbuster fatigue, the TIFF Bell Lightbox is offering just the solution with "Strange Paradise: The Cinema of Jim Jarmusch," the first comprehensive retrospective of the cult director's films in Canada.



Presented by TIFF Cinematheque and programmed by Brad Deane, the series runs from July 24 to August 16, covering the indie icon's entire career. All 12 of Jarmusch's films are being brought back to the big screen, from his NYU film studies Master's thesis "Permanent Vacation" and breakout Cannes Film Festival darling "Stranger Than Paradise" to his most recent offering "Only Lovers Left Alive," for anyone who missed the quirky vampire love story during last year's Toronto International Film Festival.



An acclaimed art house auteur minus any of the off-putting pretension -- case in point: just watch the near-prison riot started by Roberto Benigni chanting "We all scream for ice cream" in "Down By Law" -- Jarmusch has made an over 30-year career out of celebrating charming outsiders (like Johnny Depp's timid accountant in "Dead Man") and aimless wanderers (like, well, take your pick). Curating his cast out of both famous movie stars (Depp, Bill Murray, Forest Whitaker) and famous musicians (Tom Waits, Joe Strummer, John Lurie), Jarmusch is known for also putting his own unique spin on classic genres, everything from Westerns ("Dead Man") and samurai movies ("Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai") to film noir ("Broken Flowers"), even reclaiming emo vampires for adults with the aforementioned "Only Lovers Left Alive."



Almost immediately, Jarmusch and his signature shock of white hair became a larger-than-life figure in his own right, redefining "cool" when it came to American indie filmmaking. Simply put, there's just no one else quite like Jarmusch out there. So for fans of the director's work or just for anyone looking out at all the reboots, sequels, superheroes and CGI robots and bemoaning the lack of originality in Hollywood, don't miss the chance to celebrate a filmmaker whose body of work is about as unique as they come.



Strange Paradise: The Cinema of Jim Jarmusch runs from July 24 - August 16, 2014 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.







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