Jim Jarmusch: Cinéaste de l’errance

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Où on lit Lautréamont, où on danse, où on erre dans New York, où on rêve éveillé.

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Leila - Where have you been? I haven't seen you since thursday.
Allie - Walking, just walking around. I can't seem to sleep at night, not in this city.
Leila - Doesn't seem like you sleep at all.
Allie - Well, I have my dreams while I'm awake.

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Où on écoute Screamin Jay Hawkins, so bug off!

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Eddie - You know, it's funny... you come to someplace new, an'... and everything looks just the same.
Willie - No kiddin', Eddie.

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Où on cite Robert Frost et où on chante et crie "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream."

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Jack - Julie, what're you doing out here?
Julie - Just watching the light change.

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Où on allume une cigarette de la façon la plus cool qui soit.

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Mitzuko - Jun, why do you only take pictures of the rooms we stay in and never what we see outside while we travel?
Jun - Those other things are in my memory. The hotel rooms and the airports are the things I'll forget.

"Hey... you ate my plum!"

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Où on prend la taxi.

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Mika - You called a taxi?
Man - No, we called a garbage truck. But you'll have to do the job.

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Où on cite Michaux et Blake et où Personne veut du tabac alors que personne n'en a.

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"Il est toujours préférable de ne pas voyager avec un mort." Henri Michaux

"Every night and every morn,
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night,
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night."
(William Blake, cité par Nobody)

Nobody - That weapon will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will now be written with blood.

Nobody - Stupid fucking white man. (idem dans Ghost Dog)

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Où Neil Young.

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Générique:

PROUDLY FILMED IN SUPER 8
(AND 16MM AND HI-8 VIDEO)

MADE LOUD TO BE PLAYED LOUD
- CRANK IT UP! -

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Où on recommande Rashōmon.

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Ghost Dog - You know, in ancient cultures, bears were considered equal with men.
Hunter - This ain't no ancient culture here, mister.
Ghost Dog - Sometimes it is.

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Segment #4. "Int. Trailer. Night." (avec Chloë Sevigny) 5/10

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Où on fume en buvant du café. Ou l'inverse.

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(je ne comptabilise que l'omnibus)

Mention au segment Iggy Pop/Tom Waits

Tom Waits: "The beauty of quitting is, now that I've quit, I can have one, 'cos I've quit."

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Où on suit une lettre rose.

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For Jean Eustache

"I'm a stalker in a Taurus."

Kid - What happened to your eye?
Don Johnston - I, uh- I ran into somebody. Somebody's fist.

"Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it."

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(aka Kill Bill!)

Où on erre en Espagne.

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"Comme je descendais des Fleuves impassibles, je ne me sentis plus guidé par les haleurs..." - Arthur Rimbaud

"L'univers n'a pas de milieu, ni bords non plus. La réalité est arbitraire."

Molecules - Among us, there are those who are not among us.
Lone Man - I'm among no one.

"La vida no vale nada."

"Sometimes the reflection is far more present than the thing being reflected."

The American - How did you get in here?
The Lone Man - I used my imagination.

NO LIMITS NO CONTROL (end credits)

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Où on danse sur Denise LaSalle.

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Adam: "It just goes to show, we don't know shit about fungi."

Eve: "How can you've lived for so long and still not get it? This self obsession is a waste of living. It could be spend in surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing. You have been pretty lucky in love though, if I may say so..

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Où Iggy Pop just wanna be (your dog).

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"I think I help wipe out the sixties."

"I just wanna be."

Stooges forever!

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Où on vit.

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Japanese Poet: A bus driver in Paterson. A-ha. This very poetic.
Paterson: Well, I'm not so sure about that.
Japanese Poet: This could be a poem by William Carlos Williams.

Japanese Poet: I breathe poetry.
Paterson: So you like poetry?

Laura: How was your day?
Paterson: Oh, the usual.
Laura: Did any writing then?
Paterson: I did a little, yeah. Working on a poem for you.
Laura: A love poem?
Paterson: Yeah, I guess if it’s for you it’s a love poem. It’s kind of inspired by our Ohio Blue Tip Matches.
Laura: Really? Does it mention the little megaphone shape the letters make?
Paterson: Yeah, actually it does.
Laura: How beautiful.


"I don't like you, Marvin."

"Sam" Student: Do you think there’s any other anarchists in Paterson?
"Suzie" Student: Do you mean besides us? Not likely.

"I go through trillion of molecules that move aside to make way for me, while on both sides trillions more stay where they are."

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Où on se dit: WTF Jim? Tu as perdu un pari pour faire un film aussi bête et désincarné?