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

Jarmusch is ascribed as having instigated the American independent film movement with Stranger Than Paradise.

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

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 American crime action film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.

Night on Earth is a 1991 film directed by Jim Jarmusch.

The proposed seventh film, Tigrero, based on a book by Sasha Siemel, is the subject of a 1994 documentary by Mika Kaurismäki, Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made, that featured Fuller and Jim Jarmusch visiting the proposed Amazon locations of the film.

Coffee and Cigarettes is the title of three short films and a 2003 feature film by independent director Jim Jarmusch.

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

Year of the Horse is a 1997 documentary directed by Jim Jarmusch following Neil Young and Crazy Horse on their 1996 tour.

Jim Jarmusch: " Hou Hsiao-hsien is not only the crowning jewel of contemporary Taiwanese cinema, but an international treasure.

Night on Earth is a 1991 film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.

There are scenes in which people seem to vanish, no longer seen onscreen, yet the space they once occupied still resonates with their echoes, moving through the poetic sublime. In common with Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Gus Van Sant, and films like Meek ’ s Cutoff, there is a sense of homesickness to the films that make up In Passing.

The author of a series of essays on influential bands, Jarmusch has also had at least two poems published.

He also has worked with Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Jim Jarmusch, Robert Rodriguez, and Michael Bay on various occasions.

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

His movies have a unique downplayed humorous side that can also be seen in the films of Jim Jarmusch, who has a cameo in Kaurismäki's film Leningrad Cowboys Go America.

Jarmusch also used frequent Kaurismäki actors in his film Night on Earth, a part of which takes place in Helsinki, Finland.

The film also features cameos by Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Elvis Costello, and Jim Jarmusch.

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 ).

He has also written the best-known analysis of Jim Jarmusch's film Dead Man ; the volume includes recorded interviews with Jarmusch ; the book places the film in the acid western sub-genre.

It also includes works by important American directors ( such as John Cassavetes and Jim Jarmusch ) who were absent from the AFI list.

This brief movement, also known as New Cinema ( after a short-lived screening room on St. Mark ’ s Place run by several filmmakers on the scene ), had a significant impact on both underground film, spawning the Cinema of Transgression ( Beth B, Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Tessa Hughes Freeland and others ) and a new generation of independent filmmaking in New York ( Jim Jarmusch, Tom DiCillo, Steve Buscemi, and Vincent Gallo ).

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.

Some songs from Éthiopiques Volume 4 were featured in the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers.

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 ).

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.

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.

Broke and working as a musician in New York City after returning from Paris in 1976, Jarmusch applied on a whim to the prestigious Graduate Film School of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts ( then under the direction of Hollywood director László Benedek ).

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Jarmusch was recognized with the Filmmaker on the Edge award at the 2004 Provincetown International Film Festival.

Jarmusch at punk club CBGB in New York City on November 30, 2003.

In 2004, Jarmusch was honored with the Filmmaker on the Edge Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival.

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.

* Night on Earth ( 1991 ), director Jim Jarmusch

He subsequently took strong character roles in Kafka by Steven Soderbergh and Night on Earth by Jim Jarmusch ( both 1991 ).

* Night on Earth ( soundtrack ), the soundtrack album from the Jarmusch film, written by Tom Waits.

* 1992: A Night on Earth ( Jim Jarmusch )

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.