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Title:
Down by law [DVD video]
Publication Date:
2002
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2002.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9780780026063
Abstract:
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.
General Note:
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.
Performers:
Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Ellen Barkin, Billie Neal, Rockets Redglare, Vernel Bagneris, Nicoletta Braschi.
Contents:
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.
Technical Details:
DVD; widescreen (1.78:1) aspect ratio enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs; Dolby Digital mono.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
English soundtrack with optional French dub track; optional French subtitles and English subtitles for the deaf & hearing impaired.
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