Night on Earth

Director: Jim Jarmusch, Jim Jarmusch, Jim Jarmusch, Jim Jarmusch, Jim Jarmusch, Jim Jarmusch

1991 / 129min / 35mm

Jarmusch’s career-long fascination with at-home-in-the-world wanderers finds its perfect expression in this anthology piece with a Tom Waits soundtrack and Independent Spirit Award-winning cinematography by Elmes, set simultaneously in five different cabs in five different cities around the world. In Los Angeles casting agent Gena Rowlands cross-examines driver Winona Ryder, Isaach De Bankolé drives a mysterious young blind woman through Paris, and the backseat operates everywhere as an analyst’s sofa, loneliness and urban anomie proving to know no national bounds. “Mr. Jarmusch again demonstrates his mastery of comedy of the oblique.”—The New York Times

Introduction and Q&A by cinematographer Frederick Elmes on Saturday, April 27th