Jim Jarmusch  

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James Robert Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953) is an American film director and screenwriter. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing films including Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), Paterson (2016), and The Dead Don't Die (2019). Stranger Than Paradise was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002. As a musician Jarmusch has composed music for his films and released three albums with Jozef van Wissem.

Filmography

Discography

Studio albums

• Concerning the Entrance into Eternity (Important Records, 2012) (with Jozef van Wissem)
• The Mystery of Heaven (Sacred Bones Records, 2012) (with Jozef van Wissem)
• An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil (Sacred Bones Records, 2019) (with Jozef van Wissem)
• Ranaldo Jarmusch Urselli Pandi (Trost, 2019) (with Lee Ranaldo, Marc Urselli, Balazs Pandi)
• Churning of the Ocean (Trost, 2021) (with Lee Ranaldo, Marc Urselli, Balazs Pandi)

Soundtracks

• Only Lovers Left Alive (ATP Recordings, 2013) (as Sqürl, with Jozef van Wissem)
• Paterson (Third Man Records, 2017) (as Squrl)
• The Dead Don’t Die (Sacred Bones Records, 2019) (as Squrl)
• Some Music for Robby Müller (Soundtrack Living the Light—documentary) (Sacred Bones Records, 2020) (as Sqürl)

EPs

• EP #1 (ATP Recordings, 2013) (as Sqürl)
• EP #2 (ATP Recordings, 2013) (as Sqürl)
• EP #3 (ATP Recordings, 2014) (as Sqürl)
• EP #260 (Sacred Bones Records, 2017) (as Squrl)

Live albums

• SQÜRL Live at Third Man Records (12" vinyl, A Third Man Records, 2016) (as Sqürl)

Guest appearances

• Jozef van Wissem—"Concerning the Beautiful Human Form After Death" from The Joy That Never Ends (2011)
• Fucked Up—"Year of the Tiger" (2012)

Remixes

• The White Stripes—"Blue Orchid" (First Nations Remix) (2005)

See also

• No Wave Cinema