Down by Law
If you have seen Leningrad Cowboys Go America or Blue in the Face, you may recall the extremely cool Jim Jarmusch cameos, where Jim rocks up and chats about how the SS officer smokes fags in old war movies, or some such guff, and the movie instantly becomes about five degrees cooler. Down by Law enables the devoted cineaste to gauge the exactly how cool Mr Jarmusch is, using the glory of The Scientific Method, and the answer is, extremely frikkin' C. He made Down by Law in 1986, slap bang in the middle of the least cool decade since the 1890s (when sideburns and brown were so in) and it is still highly cool today.Most prison-break movies are extremely long, maybe to convey the tedium of sitting around counting sand grains while waiting to get bumholed, but Down by Law feels slight at 90 minutes. It makes Oh Brother Where Art Thou look like a bloated and unnecessary homage. In fact I am beginning to think that setting bits of Down by Law in a jail is a master stroke because the key to being cool is to sit around absolutely bored out of your fucking skull, yet not to show it. Anyway, I really liked this movie, it is good.
I saw Borat last night as well, but I have not recovered sufficiently in order to give an account of my experience. This will be coming soon.
posted by Chairman Peyote @ 1:00 PM
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