Night on Earth (#401) miyazaki Lon Chaney Jr

Lon Chaney Jr

The Don Is Dead and Mr

With its stunning black-and-white cinematography shot by the great László Kovács and its superb evocation of Depression-era locales

For his feature film debut

which rendered its low lighting focused camerawork nearly impossible to make out

Night on Earth (#401) miyazaki Lon Chaney JrFive cities. Five taxicabs. A multitude of strangers in the night. Jim Jarmusch assembled an extraordinary international cast of actors (including Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Armin Mueller Stahl, Batrice Dalle, and Roberto Benigni) for this quintet of transitory tales of urban displacement and existential angst, all staged as encounters between cabbies and their fares. Spanning time zones, continents, and languages, Night on Earth winds its course