The Dead Don't Die, review: Jim Jarmusch fails to bring new life to the zombie genre
5 years, 5 months ago

The Dead Don't Die, review: Jim Jarmusch fails to bring new life to the zombie genre

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Dir: Jim Jarmusch; Starring: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloe Sevigny. The gag about Adam Driver and Star Wars is funny enough in its own way but underlines the fact that the film isn’t taking itself remotely seriously. However, given the huge amounts of films that have already been made about the undead, it’s very hard to bring new life to the zombie genre.

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'The Dead Don't Die' In Jarmusch's Latest, But Your Patience Will
5 years, 6 months ago

'The Dead Don't Die' In Jarmusch's Latest, But Your Patience Will

NPR  

'The Dead Don't Die' In Jarmusch's Latest, But Your Patience Will Enlarge this image toggle caption Abbot Genser/Focus Features Abbot Genser/Focus Features "This is going to end badly," Adam Driver says, over and over with slight variations, in the new zombie comedy The Dead Don't Die. But as The Dead Don't Die smirks through its ironic corpse pile-up, dispatching a …

Tilda Swinton relishes her samurai turn in ‘Dead Don’t Die’
5 years, 7 months ago

Tilda Swinton relishes her samurai turn in ‘Dead Don’t Die’

Associated Press  

CANNES, France — Tilda Swinton feels most at home at the Berlin Film Festival, but she’s steadily become a regular at the Cannes Film Festival. “You don’t get assaulted by people dressed up like life-sized penises like you used to,” says Swinton. Swinton, who memorably starred as a thoroughly well-read vampire in Jarmusch’s “Only Lovers Left Alive,” plays the town’s …

Cannes 2019: Jim Jarmusch, Bill Murray, Selena Gomez on The Dead Don't Die and what terrifies them
5 years, 7 months ago

Cannes 2019: Jim Jarmusch, Bill Murray, Selena Gomez on The Dead Don't Die and what terrifies them

Firstpost  

We all know zombie movies have never been just about zombies. Indie maverick Jim Jarmusch has now joined the Z-bandwagon with his latest film, The Dead Don’t Die, which premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on 14 May. In the tradition of Romero’s zombie films, The Dead Don’t Die too is a futurist allegory, an end-of-the world tale with …

Jarmusch, Gomez, Murray talk modern horrors at Cannes
5 years, 7 months ago

Jarmusch, Gomez, Murray talk modern horrors at Cannes

Associated Press  

CANNES, France — The Jim Jarmusch zombie movie “The Dead Don’t Die” includes masses of flesh-eating zombies and an Earth thrown off its axis by “polar fracking.” But the teeming Cannes Film Festival, where “The Dead Don’t Die” premiered Tuesday as the opening-night film, has hordes and horrors of its own. Variety called it “a disappointing trifle.” The Los Angeles …

Cannes 2019 opener, The Dead Don’t Die, is nothing to die for
5 years, 7 months ago

Cannes 2019 opener, The Dead Don’t Die, is nothing to die for

Hindustan Times  

It was strange to see the world’s premier movie festival at Cannes open on Tuesday with a zombie adventure, Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die. The Dead Don’t Die was as ominous as the evening despite a host of world celebrities — from Iran’s rebel actor Golshifteh Farahani, and others like Adam Driver, Selena Gomez, Tilda Swinton and Chloe Sevigny …

Cannes 2019 day 1 roundup: The Dead Don't Die premieres; first looks of Minamata, Ammonite revealed
5 years, 7 months ago

Cannes 2019 day 1 roundup: The Dead Don't Die premieres; first looks of Minamata, Ammonite revealed

Firstpost  

Alejandro Inarritu, in his opening speech at the Cannes Film Festival, took a veiled attack at Donald Trump’s call to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. As the 72nd Cannes Film Festival opened to the world on 14 May, the French Riviera opened itself to flashy red carpet appearances, a moving opening ceremony and a grand beginning to film …

The Dead Don't Die review: Jim Jarmusch gives a deadpan hipster spin to the zomcom genre
5 years, 7 months ago

The Dead Don't Die review: Jim Jarmusch gives a deadpan hipster spin to the zomcom genre

Firstpost  

The dead, or rather the undead, really don’t seem to die. Now, Jim Jarmusch adds his typical deadpan hipster cool sensibilities to it with The Dead Don’t Die, which opened the 72nd Festival de Cannes on 14 May. With a cast comprising Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi and Selena Gomez, he had the star power to match …

Cannes 2019 review: The Dead Don’t Die
5 years, 7 months ago

Cannes 2019 review: The Dead Don’t Die

BBC  

Cannes 2019 review: The Dead Don’t Die Focus Features The Cannes Film Festival opened with a star-studded zombie comedy from Jim Jarmusch. It’s been 15 years since the release of Shaun of the Dead, and 10 years since Zombieland, with its fabulous Bill Murray cameo, so it might seem odd that the glitzy opening-night film of this year’s prestigious Cannes …

Jim Jarmusch’s ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ starts Cannes off on an apocalyptic note
5 years, 7 months ago

Jim Jarmusch’s ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ starts Cannes off on an apocalyptic note

LA Times  

Film Critic Times critic Justin Chang is filing regular dispatches from the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 14-25 in France. In “The Dead Don’t Die,” Jim Jarmusch’s bleak, bone-dry shrug of a horror-comedy, Adam Driver, Bill Murray and Chloë Sevigny play small-town police officers fending off a zombie apocalypse. If you walk into “The Dead Don’t Die” …

The Dead Don't Die trailer: Adam Driver, Bill Murray take on zombies in Jim Jarmusch's horror comedy
5 years, 9 months ago

The Dead Don't Die trailer: Adam Driver, Bill Murray take on zombies in Jim Jarmusch's horror comedy

Firstpost  

The upcoming zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die has been written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. The trailer of Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die was released on Monday. A senior police officer Bill Murray along with his subordinates played by Adam Driver and Chloë Sevigny are tasked with investigating the mysterious deaths. pic.twitter.com/SYrbZCaEs6 — The Dead Don't Die April …

Bill Murray, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits and RZA star in Jim Jarmusch's new zombie film
5 years, 9 months ago

Bill Murray, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits and RZA star in Jim Jarmusch's new zombie film

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The full cast list for Jim Jarmusch‘s new zombie film has …

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