Beautifully dark romantic, with almost a 50/50 yes & no vampire film. Eve relies on their old friend, the author Christopher Marlowe, who faked his death in 1593 and now lives under the protection of a protégé. [19], Van Wissem also described the film as "a very personal film, maybe even autobiographical" and that "Jim is a cultural sponge, he absorbs everything". The title pays tribute to the Dave Wallis science fiction novel of the same name from 1964, although the plots have no similarities. Soon after she arrives, Adam goes out for more blood and she discovers his revolver hidden under the bed with the wooden bullet. As you would expect from Jarmusch this is funny, intelligent and off-the-wall. [25], Parallel to Adam's fondness for vintage instruments and audio equipment, Jarmusch originally planned shooting the movie on analog film; budgetary considerations however forced the use of a digital Arri Alexa Plus with Cooke S4 lenses. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. "[40] Jonathan Hatfull of SciFiNow wrote that it is Jarmusch's best film since Ghost Dog. United States, Germany, 2013. In the abandoned Delray, Michigan, the depressed musician Adam (Tom Hiddleston) lives in an old house in the middle of derelict buildings with his musical instruments and books. [20] [27], While Adam often mentions that he has no "heroes", opposite his bed the wall is covered with pictures of personalities, which include, The home of Adam is originally located at 82 Alfred Street, Detroit. Jim Jarmusch Directs Julianne Moore, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Indya Moore in Saint Laurent Short — Watch, A24 Takes World Rights To Under-The-Radar Ghost Story ‘The Eternal Daughter’ Starring Tilda Swinton & Exec-Produced By Martin Scorsese, Venice Film Festival to honour Tilda Swinton, Ann Hui, IMDb Picks: Halloween Favorites to Stream Now, 150 of the Best Vampire Movies Across all Genres, Top 25 Horror Films From the Past 25 Years as Ranked by IMDb Users, WatchMojo: Top 10 Movie Couples with Ridiculous Age Gaps. ), In April 2013, the film was added to the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in the competition section. Only Lovers Left Alive is a 2013 internationally co-produced vampire film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright, Slimane Dazi and John Hurt. Rather than feeding on humans directly, they are dependent on local suppliers of the "good stuff," for fear of blood contaminated by the 21st century environment. Discover / most popular. A co-production of the United Kingdom and Germany, the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. An in-depth look at legendary punk band The Stooges. HD 7.30 123 min. Search for "Only Lovers Left Alive" on Amazon.com, Title: Drama, Horror, Romance. [20] The film opens with a view of a ten-course renaissance lute (credited as built by Michael Schreiner of Toronto). In Charles Stross's 2016 novel The Nightmare Stacks, an unnamed Jarmusch film is viewed and briefly discussed by the protagonist and a major secondary character during their first date. And the lute goes against all technology and against all computers and against all the shit you don’t need. The entire movie appropriately unfolds in the shadows, against a perpetual nocturnal backdrop. Her vampire senses reveal to her that the bullet is new and she is worried. Though their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister. To communicate via Skype with her lover, Eve uses her iPhone while Adam sets up a laptop connected to a wood-cabinet tube television. Listen free to The Wanderers – Only Lovers Left Alive (Fanfare for 1984, No Dreams and more). With its theme of teenagers in charge and out of control, the book hit a chord with the emerging counter-culture, and a film adaptation starring the Rolling Stones and directed by Nicholas Ray was planned in the mid-1960s. SQÜRL are: Carter Logan, Jim Jarmusch, and Shane Stoneback. Jarmusch not only sees himself as a "film nerd",[13] he has also been called "a cultural sponge" by van Wissem. Unmissable. [20] At the first visit, Watson calls him "Dr. Strangelove", which serves as a reference to the eponymous character in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. [21], The mentioned scientists Adam adores are: Pythagoras, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein. [12] This film is full of cultural references and therefore it has been praised as "intensely curated" and "an elegiac love song to aesthetic originary creation". Trailer 1. A film adaptation was planned in the mid-1960s for director Nicholas Ray (a picture of him can later be seen in the movie) starring The Rolling Stones. Among the books Eve reads and packs for her trip to Detroit are:[21][26], and a picture of Lorenzo Ghiberti's "La Creazione di Adamo e di Eva" from his Porta del Paradiso, Referring to the story that Christopher Marlowe may have faked his death and then written under the pseudonym of William Shakespeare, Marlow tells Eve that Adam would have been the perfect inspiration for his Hamlet. Swinton stated after the film's release: "Jim is pretty much nocturnal, so the nightscape is pretty much his palette. [36], Scott A. Their idyll is shattered by the arrival of Eve's younger sister, Ava, from Los Angeles. [13], For her flight from Tangier to Detroit Eve uses the surname "Fibonacci", taken from the Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci. Jarmusch's band SQÜRL, primarily responsible for the film's score, opens the film with a version of Wanda Jackson’s 1961 song "Funnel of Love". Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Strangelove. See the actor sing as Hank Williams in the first clip from I Saw The Light, premiering at … Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. 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Konstantakopoulos-Wikipedia. Having acquired much scientific knowledge over the years, Adam has built contraptions to power his home and a vintage sports car with technology originally pioneered by Nikola Tesla. Only Lovers Left Alive is a 2013 comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright, Slimane Dazi and John Hurt. [20] Ava uses YouTube to watch the music video of "Soul Dracula" by the French band Hot Blood. Official page dedicated to the movie "Only Lovers Left Alive" by Jim Jarmusch. Desperately hungry, they visit Marlowe and learn that their old friend and mentor has been poisoned by accidentally drinking contaminated blood. The soundtrack, predominantly by Jozef Van Wissem and SQÜRL, also features Zola Jesus, Yasmin Hamdan and Madeline Follin (of Cults). An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night. Eve and her sister are more adapted to modern technology. Unique Only Lovers Left Alive Posters designed and sold by artists. [35] Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 79 out of 100, based on 41 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [7][8] Financing the film was a difficult process for the director and he explained at the world premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival in May 2013 that, "it's getting more and more difficult for films that are a little unusual, or not predictable, or don't satisfy people's expectations of something". Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, ''Only Lovers Left Alive,'' the movie, will be released in the US April 11, 2014. [12] A concert was held at the Santos Party House venue in New York City in April 2014 to celebrate the release of Jarmusch's eleventh feature film. Jim Jarmusch's delicious new comedy is a vampire movie unlike any other. In 2016, the film was ranked among … ), that all hell breaks loose in the shapely form of Eve's sexy sister, (a terrific Mia Wasikowska), who can't keep her fangs to herself. Indeed Jarmusch has fashioned a masterpiece about a couple of lonely people whose only solace is each other, doomed if you like to be together for all eternity or until one of them gets a stake or a wooden bullet in the heart or drinks some 'bad blood'; (I loved the subtle AIDS metaphor; be careful who you bite). "What choice do we have?" Adam sits holding a lute, in his cluttered Detroit Victorian, as Eve wakes up in her bedroom in Tangier, surrounded by books. The implicit vampires (Adam, Eve and Christopher) are sort of "secret agents of artistic and intellectual achievement throughout history", having created art for others like William Shakespeare or Franz Schubert (for whom Adam is said to have written the famous Adagio of the cello string quintet D956) the movement used by Jarmusch in his 2009 movie The Limits of Control.[20][22]). Centuries-old lovers Adam and Eve are vampires. Eve reappears with a beautiful oud and as they sit together outdoors and contemplate their likely demise, they spot a pair of young lovers kissing. On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange aboriginal American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world. After they discuss how Marlowe secretly wrote most of Shakespeare's plays, Marlowe dies. The entertaining first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier sets up a promising show . Adam, still a famous musician, also fears exposure, visiting a local blood bank in the dead of night in disguise as "Dr. Faust", bribing "Dr. Watson" for his coveted O negative. Only Lovers Left Alive. 9:55PM, Sun 27 Oct on SBS World Movies (at SBS On Demand after broadcast) M UK, France, Germany, USA, 2014 Genre: Drama Language: English Director: Jim … Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them? A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common. High quality Only Lovers Left Alive gifts and merchandise. Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley. Married for centuries and now living half a world apart, two vampires wake as the sun goes down. From "Dexter" to The Suicide Squad, here are our picks for the reboots and remakes we're most excited for in 2021 and beyond. Eve (Tilda Swinton) and Adam (Tom Hiddleston) are two ancient vampires who have been married for centuries. [47] Alfred Joyner of International Business Times felt that "the melancholy that permeates Motown in the film could be seen as Jarmusch's take on the loss of America's greatness in the 21st century". Explore {{searchView.params.phrase}} by color family {{familyColorButtonText(colorFamily.name)}} During the Santos event, Jesus performed with van Wissem on both a "pseudo-Gregorian" piece from the film's soundtrack and an unrecorded collaboration.[19]. He is captivated by the music from a nearby club, where Lebanese singer Yasmine is finishing a haunting song. With Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt. Only vinyl (mostly singles) are played and analogue recording is used. An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob. I feel that I’m sort of political. ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE. Use the HTML below. Synopsis. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them? gave the film 8 out of 10, calling it "a visually poetic love story with a wry, jaded sense of humour about finding reasons to wake up every night". [44] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, pointing that Adam and Eve look more like "well-born incestuous siblings" in spite of being lovers, while the Observer's Jonathan Romney concluded that the film is "a droll, classy piece of cinematic dandyism that makes the Twilight cycle redundant in one exquisitely languid stroke". [29] It was shown at several film festivals, such as the September 2013 Toronto International Film Festival,[30] four screenings at the September/October 2013 Reykjavík International Film Festival,[31] and as an opening film for the 4th American Film Festival held in Wrocław, Poland. Despite having influenced the careers of countless famous musicians and scientists, Adam has become withdrawn and suicidal. HanWay Films. Later, a 1905 Gibson L2 is shown while other guitars, violins and cellos can be seen in Adam's studio. They struggle with depression and an ever-changing world and watch time go by, each finding stability in the other. Ava gorges herself on their stash of the "good stuff" and hungry for excitement, persuades them to go out to a local club with Ian, where they hear Adam's music playing by the band White Hills. 12 tracks (38:08). Pasty pin-up boy Edward Cullen and his undead clan can’t compete with the fabulously aloof and effortlessly cool creatures of the night lurking in Jim Jarmusch ’s "Only Lovers Left Alive". In 2014 he worked in the Cannes-selected Only Lovers Left Alive and Love Is Strange, among others. A New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure. 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