Night on earth
Title:
Night on earth
Author:
Jarmusch, Jim, 1953- film director, screenwriter, film producer.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publication Information:
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome - A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki - an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death.
General Note:
Title and credits from screen.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1991.
Wide screen (1.78:1).
Special features: selected-scene commentary by director of photography Frederick Elmes and location sound mixer Drew Kunin; Q & A with Jim Jarmusch from 2007; 1992 Belgian television interview with Jarmusch.
Language:
English
Finnish
French
Italian
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: R; for violence, language, and some drug use.
Geographic Term:
Added Author:
ISBN:
9781681435701
UPC:
715515228510
Format :
Blu-Ray
