Mystery Train
by Jim Jarmusch
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Actor: Cinqu? Lee, Masatoshi Nagase, Rufus Thomas, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Youki KudohDirector: Jim Jarmusch
Cinematographer: Robby M?ller
Writer: Jim Jarmusch
Producer: Demetra J. MacBride
Producer: Hideaki Suda
Producer: Jim Stark
Producer: Kunijiro Hirata
Producer: Rudd Simmons
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-03-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Mystery Train
Movie Review: Elvis' Ghost Takes a Mystery Train
Summary: 4 Stars
In three short vignettes, visitors of Memphis travel to the decrepit world of Elvis the King. A Japanese couple come the US to see Memphis for the King. The woman is entranced even by the run down ugliness of the Memphis train station and the deteriorating city. Her boyfriend is more interested in Carl Perkins. One visit to a tourist trap (Sun Records) leaves them deflated as they attempt to listen to a tour guide who speaks too fast for them the comprehend even basic concepts in English. Memphis may have the king but Memphis is not the most welcoming city on the planet. In the second story, an Italian woman who stops overnight from a trip back to Rome ends up into being suckered into buying an enormous number of magazine and newspapers and paying for an American woman's hotel room for the night. She shows the hospitality that the Americans don't seem to share. The third story involves three losers who go out drinking and decide to rob a liquor store. All of these people end up spending a night in a fleabag hotel decorated in Elvis memorabilia. The ghost of Elvis watches over everyone and is ever present. An interesting film by Jim Jarmusch, a director who nowadays might never see the light of day but was celebrated during a time period when new directors such as Spike Lee, etc. were coming out of film school and independent films were the rage.
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After the critical triumphs of Stranger Than Paradise and Down by Law, director Jim Jarmusch was called 'the most arresting filmmaker to surface in the American cinema by The New York Times. Mystery Train is a 'smart and curiously affecting (The Nation) comedy, that is funny and thoroughly satisfying (The New York Times)! Named after an Elvis Presleyhit, Mystery Train interweaves three engrossing stories, all centering around the Presley legend and his beloved hometown of Memphis. As the characters paths collidethrough laughter, fear and fateyou can practically feel the presence of the King himself in every scene and his legacy impressed on a generation of equally lost souls in 'this wry, brilliantly structured comedy (Boxoffice).Elvis may not be alive, but his spirit continues to permeate the American cultural landscape. Jim Jarmusch pays tribute his legacy in his funky third feature, Mystery Train. The name comes from the great bluesy recording Elvis made for Sun Records in 1955, but the stories of wandering tourists and lost souls drifting through Memphis come from the mind of Jarmusch. Three different tales play out in a single 24-hour period, a loose trilogy spinning around a fleabag hotel manned by a sleepy Screamin' Jay Hawkins and his eager bellboy Cinqu? Lee. A young Japanese couple arrives in Memphis to take the Elvis tour, an Italian woman (Nicoletta Braschi of Life Is Beautiful) takes possession of her dead husband's ashes and gets a surprise visit from a wandering spirit, and three Memphis lowlifes (including indie stalwart Steve Buscemi and Clash guitarist Joe Strummer) take an aimless and ultimately fateful midnight cruise around town. Jarmusch lazily unfolds his tales at the speed of life, the unhurried rhythms lending the deadpan mix of quirky Americana, pop culture, and cinematic poetry a quietly lived-in quality, while he juggles timelines in a trick Quentin Tarantino borrowed for Pulp Fiction. The offbeat interweaving is just another pattern to the crazy quilt, lovely examples of the mercurial playfulness of life in Jarmusch's America. --Sean Axmaker
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