Down by law

Down by law [videorecording] / Island Pictures presents a Black Snake/Grokenberger Films production ; written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. - [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2002. - 2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. - Criterion collection ; 166 . - Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 166. .

Originally released as a motion picture in 1986. Special features: interviews with Jim Jarmusch, Robby Müller, and John Lurie ; 1986 Cannes Film Festival press conference ; outtakes ; music video of Tom Waits singing "It's all right with me" ; isolated music track ; production Polaroids ; Jarmusch's phone calls with Waits, Benigni & Lurie ; location stills ; original theatrical trailer.

Prologue -- Titles -- "We can't live in the present forever" -- These boots are made for walking -- "If you was a good pimp" -- "A piece of chicken" -- Do not enter -- "Someone to take care of you" -- "It's a sad & beautiful world" -- "I'm in a bad mood" -- Lagniappe -- "You don't even exist" -- "Right here on WYLD" -- "Makin' time go slower" -- "Call me Bob" -- Italian hiccups, American cigarettes -- "Do you like Walt Whitman?" -- "La bella finestra" -- "We are a good egg" -- "I scream-a, you scream-a" -- "Hit was a prison film" -- A walk in the yard -- Mark Twain will save you -- "My family in half an hour?!" -- "All I ever knowed" -- Bob Frost -- "Goin' around in circles" -- Which way now? -- "I love to catch, to dream" -- Civilization -- "It's a mirage" -- "Like in a book for children" -- "Have to keep going" -- "Wish you were here" -- Two roads diverged in a wood -- End credits.

Director of photography, Robby Müller ; film editor, Melody London ; music, John Lurie ; songs, Tom Waits ; producer, Alan Kleinberg. Director of photography, Robby Müller ; film editor, Melody London ; music, John Lurie ; songs, Tom Waits ; producer, Alan Kleinberg.

Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Ellen Barkin, Billie Neal, Rockets Redglare, Vernel Bagneris, Nicoletta Braschi.

A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for crimes they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.


DVD; widescreen (1.78:1) aspect ratio enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs; Dolby Digital mono.


English soundtrack with optional French dub track; optional French subtitles and English subtitles for the deaf & hearing impaired.

0780026063 9780780026063

037429172025

DOW010 Criterion Collection


False imprisonment--Louisiana--Drama.
Fugitives from justice--Louisiana--Drama.


Comedy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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