Director Jim Jarmusch generated the wording in the pink letter by asking each of the four female leads to write a version of the letter from the point of view of their respective characters.

In the November 2011 print edition of Filmink, film scholar, critic and programmer Jack Sargeant wrote about the movement and In Passing, referring to the movement as " the new personal cinema " and describing the evolution of " lyrical cinema " from the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Bela Tarr and through to the Remodernist filmmakers.

2004 saw the eventual release of Coffee and Cigarettes, a collection of eleven short films of characters sitting around drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes that had been filmed by Jarmusch over the course of the previous two decades.

Following the release of Broken Flowers, Jarmusch signed a deal with Fortissimo Films, whereby the distributor would fund and have " first-look " rights to the director's future films, and cover some of the overhead costs of his production company, Exoskeleton.

American film directors, Paul Thomas Anderson, Joel & Ethan Coen, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, Robert De Niro, Curtis Hanson, Jim Jarmusch, Ang Lee, Richard Linklater, Terrence Malick, Michael Moore, Robert Redford, Martin Scorsese, James Schamus, Paul Schrader, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone and Frederick Wiseman, signed a letter on 30 April 2010 urging Panahi's release.

The festival has also had the American premiere of films such as My Dinner With Andre ( Louis Malle, 1981 ), Stranger than Paradise ( Jim Jarmusch, 1984 ), Blue Velvet ( David Lynch, 1986 ), The Civil War ( Ken Burns, 1990 ), The Crying Game ( Neil Jordan, 1992 ), Mulholland Drive ( David Lynch, 2001 ), and Brokeback Mountain ( Ang Lee, 2005 ).

Despite his enthusiasm for film, Jarmusch, an avid reader in his youth, had a greater interest in literature, a pursuit in which he was encouraged by his grandmother.

Though he refused to attend church with his Episcopalian parents ( not being enthused by " the idea of sitting in a stuffy room wearing a little tie "), Jarmusch credits literature with shaping his metaphysical beliefs and leading him to reconsider theology in his mid-teens.

In an anecdote Jarmusch has recounted of the formative experience of showing his mentor his first script, Ray disapproved of its lack of action, to which Jarmusch responded after meditating on the critique by reworking the script to be even less eventful.

A few days afterwards, having been encouraged by Ray and New York underground filmmaker Amos Poe and using scholarship funds given by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation to pay for his school tuition, Jarmusch started work on a film for his final project.

In 1986, 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 jailhouse.

Not intended to appeal to mainstream filmgoers, these early Jarmusch films were embraced by art house audiences, gaining a small but dedicated American following and cult status in Europe and Japan.

The film was shot in black and white by Robby Müller, and features a score composed and performed by Neil Young, for whom Jarmusch subsequently filmed the tour documentary Year of the Horse, released to tepid reviews in 1997.

It has been hailed as one of the few films made by a Caucasian that presents an authentic Native American culture and character, and Jarmusch stands by it as such, though it has attracted both praise and castigation for its portrayal of the American West, violence, and especially Native Americans.

A behind-the-scenes documentary, Behind Jim Jarmusch, was filmed over three days on the set of the film in Seville by director Léa Rinaldi.

A retrospective of the director's films was hosted at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during February 1994, and another, " The Sad and Beautiful World of Jim Jarmusch ", by the American Film Institute in August 2005.

Jarmusch is also featured on the album Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture ( 2005 ) in two interludes described by Sean Fennessy in a Pitchfork Media review of the album as both " bizarrely pretentious " and " reason alone to give it a listen ".

Beginning in 1986, Benigni starred in three films by North American director Jim Jarmusch.

Dead Man is a 1995 American Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.

It was written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and stars jazz musician John Lurie, former Sonic Youth drummer-turned-actor Richard Edson, and Hungarian-born actress Eszter Balint.

Supplementary footage on the second disc includes Kino ’ 84: Jim Jarmusch, a series of interviews with the cast and crew from both films by a German television program, as well as Some Days in January ( 1984 ), a behind-the-scenes Super-8 film by the director's brother.

" The success of the film accorded Jarmusch a certain iconic status within arthouse cinema, as an idiosyncratic and uncompromising auteur exuding the aura of urban cool embodied by downtown Manhattan.

The book itself also plays a part in the 1999 movie Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai directed by Jim Jarmusch.

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Musicians appear frequently in key roles – John Lurie, Tom Waits, Gary Farmer, Youki Kudoh, RZA and Iggy Pop have featured in multiple Jarmusch films, while Joe Strummer and Screamin ' Jay Hawkins appear in Mystery Train and GZA, Jack and Meg White feature in Coffee and Cigarettes.

Jarmusch at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

Jim Jarmusch dedicated his 2005 film Broken Flowers to Eustache.

Broken Flowers is a 2005 French / American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and produced by Jon Kilik and Stacey Smith.

His Western audience expanded even further when the 2005 Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers featured seven of Astatke's songs, including one performed by Cambodian-American rock band Dengue Fever.

Fretwork was featured on the soundtracks of two Jim Jarmusch movies, Coffee and Cigarettes ( 2003 ) and Broken Flowers ( 2005 ).

James R. " Jim " Jarmusch (; born January 22, 1953 ) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor and composer.

Jarmusch has been a major proponent of independent cinema, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.

Jarmusch was born to a family of middle-class suburbanites in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio in 1953.

The first adult film he recalls having seen was the 1958 cult classic Thunder Road ( starring Robert Mitchum ) the violence and darkness of which left an impression on the seven-year-old Jarmusch.

After graduating from high school in 1971, Jarmusch moved to Chicago and enrolled in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

After being asked to leave due to neglecting to take any journalism courses – Jarmusch favored literature and art history – he transferred to Columbia University the following year, with the intention of becoming a poet.

During his final year at Columbia, Jarmusch moved to Paris, for what was initially a summer semester on an exchange program but turned into ten months.

Jarmusch graduated from Columbia University in 1975.

During the late 1970s in New York City, Jarmusch and his contemporaries were part of an alternative culture scene centered on the CBGB music club.

In his final year at New York University, Jarmusch worked as an assistant to the renowned film noir director Nicholas Ray, who was at that time teaching in the department.

Jarmusch was the only person Ray brought to work – as his personal assistant – on Lightning Over Water, a documentary about his dying years on which he was collaborating with Wim Wenders.

As a result of his early work, Jarmusch became an influential representative of the trend of the American road movie.

In 1991 Jim Jarmusch appeared as himself in Episode One of John Lurie's cult television series Fishing With John.

In 1995, Jarmusch released Dead Man, a period film set in the 19th century American West starring Johnny Depp and Gary Farmer.

Jarmusch ( left ) and Isaach de Bankolé ( right ) promoting The Limits of Control at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in September 2009.