Paterson

Jim Jarmush is American independent cinema. We could crush the whole slice of independent cinema on his figure, in case I wanted to find a testimonial for one of the festivals organized by Robert Redford every year. A fitting premise for anyone who approaches any of the director's films in Akron. Paterson is one of his latest films, as well as one of the most appreciated. Without the foregoing premise you might, the…

William Carlos Williams is one of the four major American poets of the twentieth century alongside EK Cummings, Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens. Williams lives and practices medicine near Paterson, New Jersey and uses the name of the town for the epic poem, which, in his words, describes the "similarities between the mind of the modern man and the city." In a note to the first edition of the poem, the author writes t…

Jim Jarmusch, inspired by the work of William Carlos Williams, in his latest film Paterson (2016), brings us a passage from the life of an average bus driver from the average environment in which he lives in a unique way. Paterson (New Jersey) is the name of the city in which the driver of the name Paterson (Adam Driver) lives, who in his free time writes poetry. The protagonist drives on the bus line 23, on the bus…

Jim Jarmusch, inspired by the work of William Carlos Williams, in his latest film Paterson (2016), brings us a passage from the life of an average bus driver from the average environment in which he lives in a unique way. Paterson (New Jersey) is the name of the city in which the driver of the name Paterson (Adam Driver) lives, who in his free time writes poetry. The protagonist drives on the bus line 23, on the bus…