James R. "Jim" Jarmusch (pronounced /ˈdʒɑrməʃ/; born January 22, 1953) is an American independent filmmaker. Jarmusch is a major exponent of independent cinema, particularly that of the 1980s and 1990s.
Jarmusch was born to a European American family of middle-class suburbanites in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio in 1953. His mother had been a reviewer of film and theatre for the Akron Beacon Journal before marrying his father, a businessman who worked for ...
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James R. "Jim" Jarmusch (pronounced /ˈdʒɑrməʃ/; born January 22, 1953) is an American independent filmmaker. Jarmusch is a major exponent of independent cinema, particularly that of the 1980s and 1990s.
Jarmusch was born to a European American family of middle-class suburbanites in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio in 1953. His mother had been a reviewer of film and theatre for the Akron Beacon Journal before marrying his father, a businessman who worked for the B.F. Goodrich Company. She introduced the future director, the middle of three children, to the world of cinema by leaving him at a local theater to watch matinee double features such as Attack of the Crab Monsters and Creature From the Black Lagoon while she ran errands. The first adult film he recalls having seen was the 1958 cult classic Thunder Road (starring Robert Mitchum) the violence and darkness of which left an impression on the seven-year-old Jarmusch. Another B-movie influence from his childhood was "Ghoulardi", an eccentric...
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