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Permanent Vacation is a 1980 film directed, written and produced by Jim Jarmusch. It was the director's first release, and was shot on 16 mm film shortly after he dropped out of film school.
Apr 25, 1984 · Permanent Vacation: Directed by Jim Jarmusch. With Chris Parker, Leila Gastil, John Lurie, Richard Boes. A young man wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.
Rated: A-May 5, 2018 Full Review Anton Bitel Eye for Film this student's film is surprisingly adult about its adolescent preoccupations - and well-nigh unmissable for the Jarmusch fan.
Jim Jarmusch's 16mm feature debut, made not long after the writer/director graduated from film school, is an oblique study of a young man (Parker) adrift on the streets of New York. As he roams, he has chance encounters with a car thief, a saxophone player and a grizzled war veteran, among others.
Permanent Vacation is a 1980 film directed, written and produced by Jim Jarmusch. It was the director's first release, and was shot on 16 mm film shortly after he dropped out of film school. This film is often credited as the birth of the director's original style and character schemes.
Shot for just $12, 000 in grimy downtown Manhattan, Jim Jarmusch’s lo-fi, laconic debut has become an iconic example of true indie cinema. With its long takes, desolate urban setting, and interest in hip, offbeat outcasts, Permanent Vacation takes a cool and considerate look at life on the fringes.
Set against the entropic backdrop of late-1970s New York City, Jim Jarmusch's debut Permanent Vacation sedately charts the peripatetic rovings of Aloysious (Allie) Parker, an enervated young vagabond. While its desultory scenario is very much in keeping with its modest 75-minute run time, I couldn't help but find Allie's notably stilted affect ...
