A Love Poem To Poetry, From Director Jim Jarmusch : NPR. In Paterson, Adam Driver's character does the same thing every day. Routine is very liberating and nurturing for him," says director Jim Jarmusch. Mary Cybulsky/Amazon Studios & Bleecker Street. Mary Cybulsky/Amazon Studios & Bleecker Street. In Paterson, Adam Driver's character does the same thing every day. Routine is very liberating and nurturing for him," says director Jim Jarmusch.

Mary Cybulsky/Amazon Studios & Bleecker Street. Cities are almost like characters in the films of director Jim Jarmusch — think of New Orleans in 1. Down By Law, or Memphis in 1. Mystery Train. In his latest film, Paterson, Jarmusch takes that idea one step further. The film takes its name from three things: its setting, Paterson, N. J.; its main character, a bus driver named Paterson; and William Carlos Williams' epic poem "Paterson," one of Jarmusch's inspirations.

Paterson unfolds like the stanzas of a poem. Watch Johnny Mnemonic Megavideo there. Every morning, the main character (Adam Driver) wakes up and goes to work.

· 'Paterson': A Love Poem To Poetry, From Director Jim Jarmusch Paterson's main character is a bus driver who writes poetry on his lunch breaks. It was. Richard Brody reviews Jim Jarmusch’s new movie, “Paterson,” starring Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Rizwan Manji, Barry Shabaka Henley, and Johnnie Mae. Subscribe today for full access on your desktop, tablet, and mobile device. Subscribe Now. Over the next month, we'll be collecting year-end top 10 lists from over 120 movie critics and publications. Browse the individual lists and view our composite. “Paterson” and “Neruda” Jim Jarmusch’s film stars Adam Driver as a bus driver and Pablo Larraín’s movie stars Luis Gnecco as Pablo Neruda. Elmwood Park is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 19,403, reflecting an.

He drives a bus around the New Jersey city that shares his name and writes in his notebook on his lunch break. At night, he comes home to his wife, Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), then walks the dog and stops by the local bar for a beer. He does the same thing every day."Routine is very liberating and nurturing for him," Jarmusch says. Watch Way Of The Vampire Streaming more.

You’ve beheld Adam Driver as Kylo Ren; now meet Kylo Zen. In Jim Jarmusch’s new film Paterson, he plays a guy called Paterson, who happens to live in Paterson. Bill Paterson, Actor: The Killing Fields. Bill Paterson was born on June 3, 1945 in Glasgow, Scotland. He is an actor and writer, known for The Killing Fields (1984. This is featured post 1 title. You can easy customize the featured slides from the theme options page, on your Wordpress dashboard. You can also disable featured. Paterson the movie doesn’t mine the dross and drab of our everyday lives for gold — it says they already are gold, and all you have to do is look.

To be a poet and to drift around and observe small things, overhear conversations, you know, whatever strikes him."Jarmusch says he got the idea for the script more than 2. Paterson, where one of his favorite poets set one of his most famous poems. William Carlos Williams worked as a pediatrician in nearby Rutherford, N. J., and much of his work draws on the lives of his working- class patients."The beginning of the poem 'Paterson' has a metaphor of a man being the town, and the town being a man," Jarmusch says. And I took something from that — a small idea of maybe someday I'd make a film about a man named Paterson, who lives in Paterson, is a poet and like a working- class guy."There are other ways that Williams is woven into the film.

One of his business cards is tacked up behind the bar that the main character frequents, and there's this line from the poem "Paterson": "no ideas but in things". That line turns up in the movie spoken by a rapper practicing his craft in a laundromat. The phrase became a sort of mantra for some 2. That dictum has always kind of been in the back of my head when it comes to writing," says poet Ron Padgett, an adviser on the film. Padgett also contributed poems to the movie, though he didn't want to at first.

I still think poets are like, for me, like rock stars. They're kind of magical people. They should just be given whatever they want. Jim Jarmusch"It was a very slow seduction," Padgett says. And [Jarmusch] said, 'You know, if you — you don't have to do this, but if you'd like to — if you want to write anything special for the movie?' I said, 'No, no, no.

Too much pressure. I can't handle it.' And as soon as we hung up, I started thinking, Why not take the challenge?"Poetry has turned up in Jarmusch's films before — Dead Man (1. William Blake and Down by Law has a joke about Robert Frost.

Jarmusch even wrote a poem of his own for Paterson. He says he's been an avid reader of poetry since high school. These people are like innovators and rebels.

They deal with changing your consciousness. Their form is not a commercial one.

Show me a poet that does it for the money, you know? I still think poets are like, for me, like rock stars. They're kind of magical people. They should just be given whatever they want."Maybe Jarmusch can't give poets everything they want, but Paterson is his own love poem to their work.