COUNTER CULTURE
DVDS
PATERSON
DIRECTED BY JIM JARMUSCH STARRING ADAM DRIVER, GOLSHIFTEH FARAHANI
LA LA LAND
DIRECTED BY DAMIEN CHAZELLE STARRING RYAN GOSLING, EMMA STONE
LION
DIRECTED BY GARTH DAVIS STARRING DEV PATEL, NICOLE KIDMAN
Lost in the hubbub of this year’s Oscar season is the latest by independent auteur Jim Jarmusch, a determinedly low-key filmmaker who has spent his career working the side of the street marked “quirky”. Paterson follows a week in the life of a poet named Paterson who lives in Paterson, New Jersey, and composes verse about everyday pleasures while working his day job as a bus driver.
Paterson’s muses are William Carlos Williams — who once wrote an epic poem about the city of Paterson — and his own wife Laura (delightfully played by Iranian star Golshifteh Farahani) who adorns their humble home with exuberant creativity, baking cupcakes and
