{"id":4132,"date":"2023-07-14T16:13:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=4132"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:13:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:13:57","slug":"down-by-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/down-by-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Down By Law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Director: Jim Jarmusch, USA 1986, 107 mins, 15<\/p>\n

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"Jim Jarmusch\u2019s deliciously deadpan third feature … looks more than ever like a milestone in American independent cinema" Time Out<\/i>
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One of the cult films of the 1980s, alternately melancholy, comical, desolate and optimistic. Tetchy, raspy radio DJ Zack (Tom Waits) and bottled-up, sleazy would-be pimp Jack end up in prison for being too casual to avoid being framed for crimes they didn\u2019t commit. They end up sharing a cell with an eccentric, cheerful Italian, Roberto, who leads the misfits out of jail, finds happiness himself and leaves the other two to their different roads ahead.
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"Jarmusch has \u2026 a miraculous gift for finding a dreamlike emptiness in cities, in which his characters and we, the audience, wander, as if in a lucid dream." The Guardian<\/i>
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  1. New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Time Out<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Criterion Close Up<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

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