Night on Earth

Night on Earth

  • Director: Jim Jarmusch
  • Countries of origin: France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Japan
  • Language: English, French, Finnish, Italian, German
  • Release date: December 12, 1991
  • Sound mix: Dolby
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: LANewYorkParisRomeHelsinki
  • "Night on Earth" is a feature film directed by James R. Jarmusch and co-starring Gena Rowlands , Winona Laura Horowitz , Armin Mueller-Stahl and others.
    The film is composed of five short stories that happened at the same time in different countries and regions. Each story describes a brief encounter between a taxi driver and a passenger   . The film was released in Germany on December 12, 1991.

    Details

    • Release date December 12, 1991
    • Filming locations Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies Victor Company of Japan (JVC), Victor Musical Industries, Pyramide Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $3,500,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $2,015,810

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $34,039

    Gross worldwide

    $2,023,808

    Movie reviews

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    • By Mabelle 2022-07-12 15:09:25

      Night on Earth--A Review Of Five Stories

      The most iconic works by Jarmusch are probably the characters in black and white.

      When he mobilized the colors, it was actually extremely complicated and extremely beautiful. The glazed lights, the bright cars, and the colorful roads look like a woman's face, put on delicate makeup, and swaying in the...

    • By Margarete 2022-04-22 07:01:32

      after a day of work

      Longitude and latitude are criss-crossed. At 07 minutes at night, five sets of stories, and five locations, under the moonlit night of the city, the taxi driver and the passenger meet and separate in a plain way, without strong sparks or follow-up extensions, and they may not see each other again after dawn. Jarmusch, the poet of life, always seeks uniqueness in simplicity.

      From "Earth Night" to "Patterson", I don't know if Jarmusch has a special complex for road narratives. "Driver"...

    • By Linnea 2022-04-22 07:01:32

      boring earth night

      A small fit.

      On the weekend, I went to the video room of ShanghART Gallery to watch the screening, one of which is the artist Liang Yue's "Driving in the Early Morning Kills Despair", 22 minutes. The camera is like a driving recorder, driving from the west side of Shanghai to the Bund, facing the direction of the sunrise, without surprises or stories, just recording the daily driving distance. The moment the car arrived at the Bund, the sky gradually became brighter, the presence of...

    • By Tyrese 2022-04-21 09:02:33

      earth night

      Huge airport, hesitantly blowing Boeing 747
      smoke rings to silence the noise, one by one passed away
      in Los Angeles, it is not difficult to make a name for yourself

      People's artist who fled from East Germany, a clown
      with a ridiculous name, working hard to learn American language
      freedom And the New York instrument, the eloquent, rude,

      chattering diplomat of a small country, who finally angered
      the poor who swallowed his voice; the young blind woman...

    • By Sincere 2022-04-21 09:02:33

      [Earth Nights] Film Appreciation and the Development of Contemporary American Independent Films

      [Earth Night] Movie Appreciation and the Development of Contemporary American Independent Films
                     

          In fact, since the 1980s, with the rise of American independent films, the audience of independent films watched in the United States has gradually become clear that they are not 18 to 24 Young people, but a group of stable middle-aged people, they not only stopped at the time when big studios produced entertainment-oriented big productions, but also paid more...

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    • By Gloria 2023-09-16 01:22:59

      Jarmusch is particularly fond of the theme of encounters with strangers, where there are endless stories of strange people and strange things. Relax and start an adventure. The moment of separation is just a return to...

    • By Eliza 2023-09-12 06:58:14

      At the same time at midnight, there are five different stories that happened in the taxi in different places. Each story has a point that makes you laugh or move. It is happy but not promiscuous, sad but not sad. It is suitable for watching under the quilt on a rainy day. 's...

    • By Thalia 2023-08-14 19:12:47

      Jarmusch's personalized film is well conceived, but the five lines are not full enough, and it's a bit disappointing that they don't meet, but the five lines are connected well, using the method of five minutes, and the Paris section is very subtle , the contrast between a few racist black people and a blind man who can't see the wink hits the nail on the...

    • By Daniela 2023-08-14 01:19:47

      I deeply feel that this film should be considered very good, but the one with no plot is really...

    • By Alexis 2023-08-04 09:06:18

      Los Angeles and New York are bad, and the last three are better. If you tell me who the director is, it can be viewed as the graduation or debut of a directing student, plus the awkward empty shots and the driving shots of taxis from various angles......

    Movie plot

    At 7:10 in the evening on Los Angeles Street, a female taxi driver drove her guests to the airport; at the same time, Victoria, who was specially looking for various actors for the director, also got off the plane that had just arrived in Los Angeles. On the plane, Victoria was busy answering and making mobile phone calls, and when she went out, she met a female driver who took guests to the airport. So Victoria got in the taxi of the...
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    Evaluation action

    "Night on Earth" still continues the consistent narrative style of Jiamuxu, with a collection of stories, individual alienation, spiritual alienation, and mockery of Huang's birth. In the film, the five stories are stories about taxis that happened in different places at the same time. At the beginning of the film, the camera was aimed at five clocks side by side on the wall, each clock representing the time in a region. Whenever a...
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    Movie quotes

    • Passenger #2: [to the taxi driver] The Cameroon ambassador wants to see us in the morning.

      Passenger #1: In one piece.

      Passenger #2: And you drive like a lizard, first left, then right. You think you're in your jungle here?

      Passenger #1: We're not from the same jungle, are we? No.

    • Passenger #1: Little brother, where do you come from that you're so rude? You from Togo? From Gabon? He can't be from Cameroon. From Dakar?

    • Blind Woman: Listen, jerk-off, I can do anything you can and a lot of things you'll never do. I'm blind, that's all.

      Paris Driver: You can't drive a car, for example.

      Blind Woman: And you can?