...Joanna Mansbridge Among the recent spate of independent vampire films, Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive uniquely depicts vampires whose immortality is under threat in a world tainted by environmental toxins. Facing their mortality as we humans face our own extinction, Adam and Eve are vampires...

.... The posterity of Melville’s cinema also, of course, includes homages like Hard Eight (directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, 1996) and Ghost Dog (directed by Jim Jarmusch, 1999), which approach gender and race in interesting ways. FRENCH HARD- BOILED MASCULINITY 49...

... Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969), then Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven (1992) and Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man (1995) represent a series of resurrections. Each film brought new life to materials that had come to seem hackneyed and inconsequential, revising them into something refreshingly new yet generically...