February 2012
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Down By Law and NOLA
Watching Jim Jarmusch’s film made me fall in love with New Orleans, again.
His notes on the film read like poetry themselves:
I intend the film to evoke without directly employing . the smoldering Louisianna sun, run-down hotels and bordellos, the Zydeco blues of Clifton Chenier, etc., landscapes punctuated by the sad shapes of cypress trees dripping with Spanish moss, chain gangs,...