"Director: Jim Jarmusch"

• Down By Law | DVD | (23/03/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law is in the same minimalist, oddball, black-and-white groove as his classic of American independent cinema, Stranger than Paradise (1984). The setting is Louisiana, where two losers (musicians Tom Waits and John Lurie) find themselves stuck in a jail cell together. One day they are joined by a boisterous Italian (Roberto Benigni), and the chemistry changes--suddenly an escape attempt is on the horizon. Conventional drama is not Jarmusch's intention; one of the emotional high points of this film is the three guys marching around their prison cell shouting, "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" Yet the deadpan style creates its own humorous mood, underscored by melancholy (also underscored by the music of Lurie and the gravel-voiced songs of Waits). This was the first American film for Italian comedian Benigni, (Life is Beautiful), and he lights it up with his effervescent clowning. Jarmusch has said that Down by Law forms a loose trilogy with Stranger than Paradise and the subsequent Mystery Train (1989)--a triptych of disaffected, drifting life in the United States. Few filmmakers have ever surveyed ennui so entertainingly. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• Down By Law | Blu Ray | (23/03/2015) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law is in the same minimalist, oddball, black-and-white groove as his classic of American independent cinema, Stranger than Paradise (1984). The setting is Louisiana, where two losers (musicians Tom Waits and John Lurie) find themselves stuck in a jail cell together. One day they are joined by a boisterous Italian (Roberto Benigni), and the chemistry changes--suddenly an escape attempt is on the horizon. Conventional drama is not Jarmusch's intention; one of the emotional high points of this film is the three guys marching around their prison cell shouting, "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" Yet the deadpan style creates its own humorous mood, underscored by melancholy (also underscored by the music of Lurie and the gravel-voiced songs of Waits). This was the first American film for Italian comedian Benigni, (Life is Beautiful), and he lights it up with his effervescent clowning. Jarmusch has said that Down by Law forms a loose trilogy with Stranger than Paradise and the subsequent Mystery Train (1989)--a triptych of disaffected, drifting life in the United States. Few filmmakers have ever surveyed ennui so entertainingly. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• Down By Law | DVD | (31/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law is in the same minimalist, oddball, black-and-white groove as his classic of American independent cinema, Stranger than Paradise (1984). The setting is Louisiana, where two losers (musicians Tom Waits and John Lurie) find themselves stuck in a jail cell together. One day they are joined by a boisterous Italian (Roberto Benigni), and the chemistry changes--suddenly an escape attempt is on the horizon. Conventional drama is not Jarmusch's intention; one of the emotional high points of this film is the three guys marching around their prison cell shouting, "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" Yet the deadpan style creates its own humorous mood, underscored by melancholy (also underscored by the music of Lurie and the gravel-voiced songs of Waits). This was the first American film for Italian comedian Benigni, (Life is Beautiful), and he lights it up with his effervescent clowning. Jarmusch has said that Down by Law forms a loose trilogy with Stranger than Paradise and the subsequent Mystery Train (1989)--a triptych of disaffected, drifting life in the United States. Few filmmakers have ever surveyed ennui so entertainingly. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• Stranger Than Paradise | Blu Ray | (23/03/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jim Jarmusch's black and white indie hit starring John Lurie. Willie (Lurie) is a New York hipster of Hungarian origin. When his relatives ask him to look after his 16-year-old cousin, Eva (Eszter Balint), he reluctantly agrees. Initially hostile to one another, it isn't long before the cousins develop an affectionate bond, but after ten days Eva leaves to stay with her Aunt Lotte (Cecillia Stark). A year later Willie and his friend Eddie (Richard Edson) head off to Cleveland to visit the two women...

• Dead Man | Blu Ray | (23/03/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This disappointment from Jim Jarmusch stars Johnny Depp in a mystery Western about a 19th-century accountant named William Blake, who spends his last coin getting to a hellish mud town in Texas and ends up penniless and doomstruck in the wilderness. A benevolent if goofy Native American (Gary Farmer) takes an interest in guiding Blake on a quest for identity in his earthly journey, but the film is really just a string of endless shtick about inbred woodsmen, dumb lawmen, and a trio of irritable killers. With Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne, Alfred Molina, and a noodling soundtrack by Neil Young. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Night on Earth | Blu Ray | (23/03/2015) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jim Jarmusch's film tells five separate stories which all happen on the same night in five different taxis driving through five cities around the world: a Hollywood casting agent feels her age in L.A.; a learner cabbie, who is a former circus clown, drives through Harlem carrying two arguing passengers; a blind woman (Beatrice Dalle) disorientates her driver in Paris; a non-believer (Roberto Benigni) finds a dead bishop in his back seat in Rome; and a driver in Helsinki and his passengers swap melancholy stories.

• Stranger Than Paradise | DVD | (23/03/2015) from £7.45   |  Saving you £9.80 (158.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jim Jarmusch's black and white indie hit starring John Lurie. Willie (Lurie) is a New York hipster of Hungarian origin. When his relatives ask him to look after his 16-year-old cousin, Eva (Eszter Balint), he reluctantly agrees. Initially hostile to one another, it isn't long before the cousins develop an affectionate bond, but after ten days Eva leaves to stay with her Aunt Lotte (Cecillia Stark). A year later Willie and his friend Eddie (Richard Edson) head off to Cleveland to visit the two women...

• Mystery Train | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ""One of the year's strongest and most memorable features."" - Boxoffice After the critical triumphs of 'Stranger Than Paradise' and 'Down By Law' director Jim Jarmusch was called ""the most arresting filmmaker to surface in the American cinema"" by The New York Times. Mystery Train is a ""smart and curiously affecting"" (The Nation) comedy that is ""funny and thoroughly satisfying"" (The New York Times)! Named after an Elvis Presley hit Mystery Train interweaves three engrossing sto

• Mystery Train | Blu Ray | (23/03/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A sleazy downtown motel in Memphis, Tennessee provides the stopping off point for three very different groups of people: a rock'n'roll obsessed Japanese couple paying a visit to Elvis' home, Graceland; a beautiful Italian widow who has a surprise encounter with the 'King' himself; and an inept gang of thugs seeking refuge in the hotel after a liquor store robbery. Cult director Jim Jarmusch links their stories together by the comic antics of the night clerk and bellboy, played by Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Spike Lee's brother Cinque.

• The Limits of Control | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (-25.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Beautifully shot and timeless, "The Limits of Control" delivers a surreal neo-noir, detective story unlike anything you have ever seen!

• Night On Earth | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jim Jarmusch's 1991 ensemble comedy Night on Earth turns a gimmick into a revelation. The story begins in Los Angeles one evening at 7:07 pm A talent agent (Gena Rowlands) gets into the back of a taxi driven by a sullen, chain-smoking young woman (Winona Ryder), and over the course of their bumpy conversation, Rowlands' character becomes convinced that the cabby would be perfect for a particular part in a movie. Meanwhile, at that very moment, taxi drivers in New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki are all having unique encounters with a variety of fares, breaking through that invisible social barrier between the front and back seats of their cars, often to absurd or touching effect. Among them are cabby Roberto Benigni's ranting confessions to a priest, Armin Mueller-Stahl's relinquishing of the wheel to a stunned Giancarlo Esposito and Isaach De Bankolé's relentless discussion of sight and sex with an angry blind woman (Beatrice Dalle). What emerges is a chain of brief intimacies (not always welcomed by the characters), like a number of matches lit simultaneously across the globe, flickering brightly for a few short moments. This popular work by Jarmusch helped confirm his reputation as a fiercely independent filmmaker of rare perception, rigour and classical sensibility matched with original thinking. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Permanent Vacation | DVD | (23/03/2015) from £7.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (53.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Film-maker Jim Jarmusch makes his feature debut with this early 1980s drama. The story follows Allie (Chris Parker), a twenty-something layabout, as he wanders aimlessly around the streets of New York City meeting a host of unusual characters and looking for some meaning in life.

• Jim Jarmusch Collection Vol.1 | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £14.76 (72.96%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Permanent Vacation (1980): In downtown Manhattan Allie a twenty-something guy (Chris Parker) whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost subconsciously searches for more meaning in his life and meets a few strange and surreal characters along the way. Stranger Than Paradise (1984): Winner of the Camera d'Or for Best First Feature at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival Stranger Than Paradise not only launched Jim Jarmusch's career but also earned him recognition from critics as one of today's more inventive and creative filmmakers. Lounge Lizard musician John Lurie stars as Willie a disenchanted New Yorker who along with his best friend Eddie (Richard Edson) and cousin Eva (Eszter Balint) decides it's time to leave behind their boring lives in search of ""paradise."" But as their unforgettable road trip to Florida unfolds they find that amidst the sunshine blue skies and palm trees their pursuit of happiness is constantly road-blocked by the very thing they can't run away from... themselves. Down By Law (1986): In one of the hippest comedies ever made three misfits find themselves thrown together in a New Orleans jail cell. There's Zach the unemployed DJ Jack the small-time pimp and Bob the crazy Italian tourist. Unavailable for many years this cult hit stars Tom Waits John Lurie and the Oscar-winning director and star of Life is Beautiful Roberto Benigni. A film that firmly established Jim Jarmusch as the coolest director on the American independent scene.

• Johnny Depp Collection | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Arizona Dream: Johnny Depp plays Axel a young drifter caught between the dreams of youth and the responsibilities of adulthood. Enticed back to his Arizona hometown the oddball residents take more than a passing interest in him. His wheeler-dealer uncle badgers him to take over the Cadillac salesroom. What's more Axel becomes the pinnacle of risque love triangle with a wealthy widow and her stepdaughter... What's Eating Gilbert Grape: Meet Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) a young man who lives in Endora Iowa population 1 091. Gilbert lives with his mother whose 36 stone frame is slowly destroying the fragile Grape homestead his brother Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio) who was never expected to survive childhood and his two sisters. Gilbert's only excitement is his affair with Mrs. Betty Carver (Mary Steenburgen). Besides that Gilbert's life is weird. And he doesn't seem to enjoy it. But one day a mysterious beautiful girl named Becky (Juliette Lewis) moves into town with her grandmother and Gilbert's world begins to change... Dead Man: William Blake (Johnny Depp) set out on an exciting journey to start his life over in a new town with a new job. He never could have prepared himself for what was to come. Through a mysterious chain of events he becomes involved in a love triangle that ends in a double murder--with him as the suspect. Alone and scared he tries to escape but soon discovers that he is being hunted down by men who have been paid to find and kill him and befriends a Native American loner 'Nobody' (Gary Farmer) who believes that he is the English poet 'William Blake' teaches him to face the dangers that follow a dead man. With tremendous performances from the likes of Johnny Depp Gary Farmer (later reprising the same role in Jarmusch's 'Ghost Dog') and movie-legend Robert Mitchum; the amazing rock score by Neil Young drifts in and out superbly as William Blake journeys through Jarmush's monochrome vision of the old west. Sleepy Hollow: Master storyteller Tim Burton (Batman Edward Scissorhands) weaves an eerie enchanting version of this classic tale of horror. Johnny Depp is Ichabod Crane an eccentric investigator determined to stop the murderous Headless Horseman. Christina Ricci is Katrina Van Tassel the beautiful and mysterious girl with secret ties to the supernatural terror... Lost In La Mancha: Making a film is essentially about two things: belief and momentum - Director Terry Gilliam. Lost In La Mancha may be the first un-making of documentary. In a genre that exists to hype films before their release 'Lost In La Mancha' presents an unexpected twist: it is the story of a film that does not exist. Instead of a sanitised glimpse behind the scenes 'Lost In La Mancha' offers a unique in-depth look at the harsher realities of filmmaking. With drama that ranges from personal conflicts to epic storms this is a record of a film disintegrating.

• Dead Man - Steelbook | Blu Ray | (07/09/2015) from £21.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (50.03%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Zavvi Exclusive Limited Edition Steelbook. Limited to 2000 Copies. In nineteenth century America, William Blake (Johnny Depp) travels West to take up a position at Dickinson's metal works, only to find that the vacancy has already been filled. A series of chaotic and violent confrontations leave Blake wounded, but he is befriended by a native American named Nobody, who takes him on a spiritual journey. Indie guru Jim Jarmusch directs.

• Jim Jarmusch Collection Vol.2 | DVD | (05/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Jim Jarmusch Colection: Volume 2 Box Set - Mystery Train / Night On Earth / Dead Man

• Jim Jarmusch - Down By Law / Night On Earth | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Two classic films from auteur(!) director Jim Jamursch. Down By Law: 'It's not where you start - it's where you start again...' In one of the hippest comedies ever made three misfits find themselves thrown together in a New Orleans jail cell. There's Zach the unemployed DJ Jack the small time pimp and Bob the crazy Italian tourist. Unavailable for many years this cult hit stars Tom Waits John Luries and the Oscar-winning director and star of 'Life Is Beautiful' Roberto Be

• Permanent Vacation | Blu Ray | (23/03/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Film-maker Jim Jarmusch makes his feature debut with this early 1980s drama. The story follows Allie (Chris Parker), a twenty-something layabout, as he wanders aimlessly around the streets of New York City meeting a host of unusual characters and looking for some meaning in life.

• Gangster: The Yards, Brother, Ghost Dog | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Yards:'The Yards' is a tense thriller set in the vast New York City subway yards. After serving time in prison for taking the fall for a group of friends Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) just wants to get his life back on track. So he goes to the one place he thinks he'll be safe: home. There he takes a job with his highly connected and influential uncle Frank (James Caan) and is reunited with his long-time friend Willie Gutierez (Joaquin Phoenix) and Willie's girlfriend Erica (Charlize Theron). But in the yards where his uncle now pulls the strings safe is not how they do business. Unwittingly he's drawn into a world of sabotage high stakes payoffs and murder. And the secret he discovers will make him the target of the most ruthless family in the city: his own. Now in the name of justice he'll have to do everything in his power to bring them down. Brother:In Japan the sworn brotherhood of the Yakuza is described as being 'thicker than the blood of kindred brothers'. With his life under threat disgraced Yakuza hard man Yamamoto escapes to Los Angeles in search of his half-brother Ken a small-time drug dealer. Unable to speak the language and confused by his surrounding Yamamoto teams up with Ken and his friend and fellow gang-member Denny. Soon Yamamoto finds himself back in the old routine. His ruthless efficiency in terrorising and killing rival gang members shocks even the blood hardened Americans and before long Yamamoto's gang is strong enough to join forces with a rival Japanese crime lord called Shirase. Ghost Dog:Ghost Dog lives above the world alongside a flock of birds in a homemade shack on the roof of an abandoned building. Guided by the words of an ancient Samurai text Ghost Dog is a professional killer able to dissolve into the night and move throughout the city unnoticed. When Ghost Dog's code is dangerously betrayed by the dysfunctional mafia family that occasionally employs him he must find a way to defend himself without breaking the code of the samurai.

• Dead Man | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Dead Man is the story of William Blake (Johnny Depp, Pirates of The Caribbean - The Curse Of The Black Pearl, Donnie Brasco) as he travels to the extreme western frontiers of America in the 19th Century. Lost and badly wounded, Blake encounters an odd outcast Native American, named 'Nobody'. Unfortunate circumstances find Blake and Nobody hunted as outlaws as he is forced to kill in order to survive. Thrown into a strange world that is cruel and chaotic Blake finds himself losing his sense of self and spirals out of control.With an all star supporting cast including John Hurt, Billy Bob Thornton, Alfred Molina and Iggy Pop Dead Man is a must own for any Johnny Depp fan.