Jim Jarmusch

Heartless Bastards' Erika Wennerstrom on Coffee Mugs, Valentines, & Jim Eno

​Heartless Bastards are gearing up for the release of their fourth album, Arrow on February 14. It just so happens that Arrow is the band's strongest record to date. It features a more versatile mix of psych, glam, classic rock, porch blues, R&B, funk and spaghetti-western. Singer/guitarist ... More >>

A Tom Waits visual tribute in honor of the release of Bad As Me

​Tom Waits' twentieth album, Bad As Me, was released today on Anti- records to almost epidemically feverish anticipation from fans. (Gimme Noise's collective thermometer reads 106!) So what better way to pay tribute to everyone's favorite growling crooner than with some choice YouTube clips t ... More >>

Sound Unseen screening no wave documentary Blank City tomorrow night at the TRYLON

Lydia Lunch in a scene from Blank City​"If you could be anybody, who would you be?" "An outlaw, a film director, a rebel, a rock star!" yells a '70s gangster shooting a gun at the Super 8 camera, cutting to a rapid-fire Mars punk song over a killer montage of '70s film clips of punk and no wave mu ... More >>

Meek's Cutoff

Walker Art Center, Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

The Coen brothers' True Grit

The boys take their tongues out of their cheeks for this one

Noted zombie actor Al Pacino to portray noted zombie pop svengali Phil Spector in HBO movie

​Gimme Noise gave up watching Hollywood movie awards ceremonies some time back, and Al Pacino is one of the reasons why. Al Pacino is awesome, but these days, Al Pacino is also old, out-of-sorts, bedraggled, confused. Spiffed and tailored and rattily tuxed, Al Pacino isn't aware that even though n ... More >>

Director Brady Kiernan talks Stuck Between Stations, music, and Minneapolis

Photo by Kris Drake​Local director Brady Kiernan knows how to work. Since finishing his film degree in 2002, he's made his mark on the Twin Cities scene the old fashioned way, through blood, sweat, and skill. Working his way up has paid off with project after project: he's produced multiple ... More >>

Weekend movie guide: See it or flee it?

You've got 10 bucks and two hours, and you don't want to waste any of it. We can help.

Film Highlight: Dead Man

There is no gold at the end of Fool's Gold

Pity the Fools of this terrible Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson mash-up

No Future? Not Exactly

The Clash's Joe Strummer transcends punk, and the music lives on

Kill the Vultures

Tales of Ordinary Minneapolis

Bukowski takes a shot around the corner in 'Factotum'

Plays Well with Others

Never mistake a supergroup for a side project

Countless Crispy Critters

Dear Dara confronts the French-fry issue

Stranger Than Paramour

Jarmusch's Don Juan courts the big questions in 'Broken Flowers'

7/18: Morning Communique

Cannes's Killer Movies

Competition was brutal at the world's most cutthroat film festival

A Movie Under The Influence

'Coffee and Cigarettes' catches a momentary buzz

Real Life Rock Top 10

Natalie Merchant does an about-face; Joe Strummer's countenance appears on the wall; Stephen Tyler loses his head

Faraway, So Close

'Lost in Translation' revels in the beautiful nowhere

Score

Underground movies and rebel music hook up in the Sound Unseen Festival

Film-Fest Pick Hits

Favorites from the second week of the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

The Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival's Middle Week Has Hits, Sleepers, and Snoozers

The Long Goodbye

The Wanderers

Seeking Signs of Civilization--and Artistic Sustenance--at the Sundance Film Festival

A Cut Below

Something Mild

Jump Tomorrow's retro-screwball is soft but sweet

What a Feeling

An Oak Street retrospective pulls us back to the flashy days of Eighties cinema

White Light/White Heat

Director Darren Aronofsky tries for the kingdom in Requiem for a Dream

Gotta Sing, Gotta Suffer

Lars von Trier's beloved martyr learns a new beat in Dancer in the Dark

The Way of the Whitaker

No Better Tomorrow

Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog brings the gangster film to extinction

The Year in Film

1999 brought a cinematic bounty to the art house and the multiplex alike

Stop Being So English

This year's British Television Advertising Awards promotes a new identity

Pictures for the People

A series at the Walker reveals the revolutionary power of Brazil's Cinema Novo

Over There

While American critics script eulogies for foreign film, this year's festival at Cannes suggests that reports of its death are an exaggeration

The Straight Story

Ameri-Cannes: Screening the Yanks

Joel Schumacher's New Nightmare

Desperately Seeking Oscar

Divine Trash

The Ties That Bind

Her life to live: Alice Houri in Claire Denis's N�nette et Boni

Paving The Road

It Only Takes a Spark:Former- Minneapolitan-turned-director Garret Williams.

Four Funerals and a Wedding

Here Comes the (Burning) Bride: Shabana Azmi finds forbidden love in Fire.

Back in the Saddle Again

Love Story: Jim Jarmusch and Neil Young in Year of the Horse.

Lars, Wong, "Beat," Bruno, and Youssef

The New York Film Festival's new New Wave--and the industry's same old neglect.

The Year in Film

The view from here to Scotland, Hong Kong, and Fargo

Artists Of The Year

Shooting Stars

Tears of a Clown