Down by law
(2002, original release: 1986)

Fiction

DVD

Series:
Call Numbers:
DVD/COMEDY/DOWN

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/COMEDY/DOWN Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2002]
©2002
DESCRIPTION

2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
0780026063 DOW010
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Originally released as a motion picture in 1986

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

Features include interactive menus ; scene selection ; 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

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

Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Ellen Barkin

DVD

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

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