British distributors Soda Pictures have officially announced and detailed their upcoming
Jim Jarmusch Blu-ray Collection. The six-disc box set will be available for purchase on October 6th.
Jim Jarmusch has long been considered a seminal figure in American independent cinema. His films are often noted for their transcendent minimalism and upturning of traditional genres such as the road movie, western, crime-film and detective story. Together for the first time in the UK on Blu-ray and in fully restored glory are his six first films:
Permanent Vacation,
Stranger Than Paradise,
Down By Law,
Mystery Train,
Night on Earth, and
Dead Man.
Permanent Vacation – Jarmusch's debut – was good enough to attract the attention of Wim Wenders, who offered the film stock necessary for his career-making second feature
Stranger Than Paradise. His third film
Down By Law saw three convicts try to escape the bayou in a pitch-perfect black comedy.
Mystery Train took him to Memphis for a triptych set around a seedy hotel, whilst his portmanteau film
Night on Earth took him outside of America for the first time, filming in Paris, Rome and Helsinki. Jarmusch then headed home for his cult classic
Dead Man, an existential anti-western.
CONTENT:
PERMANENT VACATION
- Kino '84: Jim Jarmusch, a 1984 German television program featuring interviews with cast and crew from Stranger Than Paradise and Permanent Vacation
- Trailers
- Aspect ratio: 16:9 (1.33:1) / Running time: 75 mins / 1080p / Colour / 23.976hz / Audio: English DTS Mono / Subtitles: English SDH
STRANGER THAN PARADISE
- Some Days in January 1984, a behind-the-scenes Super-8 film by Tom Jarmusch
- Trailers
- Aspect ratio: 16:9 (1.78:1) / Running time: 89 mins / 1080p / B&W / 23.976hz / Audio: English DTS Mono / Subtitles: English SDH
DOWN BY LAW
- Outtakes
- Recordings of phone conversations between Jarmusch and Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni and John Lurie
- Trailers
- Aspect ratio: 16:9 (1.78:1) / Running time: 107 mins / 1080p / B&W / 23.976hz / Audio: English DTS Mono / Subtitles: English SDH
MYSTERY TRAIN
- Trailers
- Aspect ratio: 16:9 (1.78:1) / Running time: 111 mins / 1080p / Colour / 23.976hz / Audio: English/Japanese/Italian DTS Mono / Subtitles: English SDH
NIGHT ON EARTH
- Trailers
- Aspect ratio: 16:9 (1.78:1) / Running time: 128 mins / 1080p / Colour / 23.976hz / Audio: English/French/Italian/Finnish DTS Stereo / Subtitles: English SDH
DEAD MAN
- Deleted scenes
- Trailers
- Aspect ratio: 16:9 (1.78:1) / Running time: 121 mins / 1080p / B&W / 23.976hz
Audio: English DTS Stereo /Subtitles: English SDH
- Booklet with "Jim Jarmusch Interviewed by Geoff Andrew at the London Film Festival 1999 for The Guardian".