Instead, he focuses on the mundanity of his protagonists’ lives - how they ended up in jail, their time spent playing cards to relive the boredom, and their ramshackle attempts to evade the authorities in the film’s final act. Wonderful stuff #FilmSky (2/2)
DOWN BY LAW (Jim Jarmusch, 1986).
Loved the downbeat, deadpan comedy in this one, which probably set the template for much of JJ’s subsequent work!
Jarmusch avoids the usual tropes of crime / prison-break films by shooting the scenes in between the traditional ‘action’. #FilmSky (1/2)
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Up to 1938, Adrian Allinson usually spent part of each spring and summer in the Mediterranean. This landscape is most likely Ibiza. Allinson would make initial sketches in situ, and then each winter, he painted the scenes at his north London studio.
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Lionel Jeffries - born 100 years ago today. Here he is at Oakworth Station, Yorkshire, during the shoot of his debut feature as director, THE RAILWAY CHILDREN (1970). Some of us remain enormously grateful. It was one of the films that made a young me fall in love with cinema.
I should also mention that DOWN BY LAW looks amazing. The textured black-and-white cinematography is truly beautiful! #FilmSky
