Paterson (USA/Germany/France: Jim Jarmusch, 2016)

The poems, written by New York School poet Ron Padgett, appear on screen as they're read aloud in voiceover; they are ingenuous and winsome much like Jarmusch's films... PATERSON may be his most refreshing contradiction, a self-edit that puts not only his ethos into perspective, but also the whole concept of what it means to be an artist. - Kathleen Sachs (Cine-File, April 13, 2017)

Paterson doesn’t create his poems to be perfect, he doesn’t even want to read them out loud or publish. What seems to be truly important is the reflective and unconscious process of observing and putting words flow on paper. Despite of the art you’re making, Paterson tells us that there’s inspiration everywhere – it might come from chatter on the bus, strangers you meet on the street, from cherishing your loved ones, and even from such mundane object as the matchbox. - Inna Gvozdova

Jim Jarmusch jams
quotidian cine-poem of
extraordinary ordinary - Michael Benton

Paterson (USA/Germany/France: Jim Jarmusch, 2016: 118 mins)

Andrews, Mallory. "Now Playing: Paterson." Movie Mezzanine (January 3, 2017)

Bordwell, David. "Fantasy, flashbacks, and what-ifs: 2016 pays off the past." Observations on Film Art (January 2, 2017)

---. "A Poet's Summer: Paterson; A Quiet Passion." Observations of Film Art (October 8, 2016)

Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jim Jarmusch." Cinemaxis (December 10, 2013)

Heffernan, Virginia. "No Ideas But in Non-Digital Things: Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson tackles poetry, New Jersey, and the Internet." Poetry Foundation (December 20, 2016) 

Taubin, Amy. "Common Sense: American indie axiom Jim Jarmusch talks about the art of routine in Paterson (and the assembly of chaos in Gimme Danger)." Film Comment (November/December 2016)

Taylor, Charles. "A Man in Himself Is a City: Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson." Los Angeles Review of Books (January 19, 2017)

Thurston, Michael. "What Paterson Gets Right About Poetry." The Massachusetts Review (February 24, 2017)