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Night on earth
Title:
Night on earth
ISBN:
9781934121818
Edition:
[Widescreen ed.].
Publication Information:
[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2007]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
General Note:
Release date: Sep. 4, 2007.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991.

Special features: selected-scene commentary by director of photography Frederick Elmes and location sound mixer Drew Kunin; Q & A with Jim Jarmusch; 1992 Belgian television interview with Jarmusch.

Booklet includes essays by Thom Andersen, Paul Auster, Bernard Eisenschitz, Goffredo Fofi, and Peter von Bagh and the lyrics to Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan's songs from the film.
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Summary:
A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome - A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki - an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death.
System Details:
DVD; NTSC, REGION 1; WIDESCREEN (1.78:1 ASPECT RATIO).
Language Note:
DIALOGUE IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, AND FINNISH, WITH OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES; CLOSED-CAPTIONED.
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