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Fri Jan-02-04 04:25 PM
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| Can someone help me ID this foreign film? |
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Once again, I stumbled on a film in progress late last night. It was a series of vignettes about taxi drivers and their passengers. One set in Rome, where the bishop dies in the back seat (the driver was the star of Beautiful Life); one in Paris; one in Helsinki, and one in NYC with a driver from east germany and an Eddie Murphy type passenger.
It was an outstanding movie. I don't know the title.
Anyone? You guys are good at this.
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Fri Jan-02-04 04:39 PM
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Thanks so much. Yippee! Now I can either find it or rent it.
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Fri Jan-02-04 04:41 PM
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... "Night on Earth" by Jim Jarmusch.
If one of the scenes was a taxi driver confessing (sort of) all his sins to a priest who gets in his cab, and not noticing that the priest is having a heart attack, that's the one.
Cheers.
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Fri Jan-02-04 04:45 PM
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...but I also really liked the East German taxi driver trying to get around NYC. That whole vignette was priceless.
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Fri Jan-02-04 04:48 PM
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| 6. Yay people here know who the fuck Jim Jarmucsh is! |
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Nith on Earth is the movie you are talking about. The always incredible Tom Waits does the music for it. If you like it you should check out Down By Law, my personal favorite.
Did anyone here ever see Fishing with Jon?
Jon Lurie would go fishing with different famous people my favorite epis were Jon and Tom Waits, Willium Defoe, and Dennis Hopper. They have the Documentary voice over guy and it is funny as hell, plus all of the music was written by Lurie on his casio keyboard. "Yan has wodden legs, but real feet." That cracks me up just thinking about it.
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Fri Jan-02-04 04:56 PM
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is one of my favorite films. ever.
"Stupid fucking white man!"
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Fri Jan-02-04 05:31 PM
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| 8. Fishing with John - the BEST scene was the one..... |
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....where Tom Waits put a live red snapper down the front of his pants. Those six episodes are some of the funniest TV I've ever watched.
Second favorite is the one where he and Jarmusch go fishing for sharks off the wild, untamed coast of Manhattan.
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Sat Jan-03-04 01:56 AM
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| 9. The wooden legs, real feet line... |
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... was stolen from Steven Wright. Still funny, whatever the context.
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Sat Jan-03-04 02:51 AM
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Edited on Sat Jan-03-04 02:52 AM by ktranz
Just saw it on IFC, cool movie...
Dead Man and Ghost Dog are my other fav. Jarmusch' films
oh yeah, both movies have the same line "stupid fucking white man!" lol
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