The B&W film. The music. The traveling camera. The scenes of old New Orleans. The trampy girls. The police entrapments. The isolation. The tension. The slow, deliberate pacing. The crazy Italian murderer. The cramped prison cell. The ice cream chant. The escape. The chase through the swamp. The diner. The serendipity. The no nonsense ending. The poetry. The award-winning director, Jim Jarmusch. The actors, Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Ellen Barkin, Billie Neal. Only a few good reasons to watch this. Classic.

I scream! You scream! We all scream for ice cream!

Becoming more and more a fan of Jarmusch. Loved the dreamlike, fairytale aspect to the film.

Some of the greatest lines from the film: (I might not be remembering these verbatim).

“This rabbit tastes like a tire.”

“Oh, my killer.”

“Red ants. They can eat a whole family in half an hour.”

If you’re a Tom Waits fan and or a Jim Jarmusch fan you need to see this one. The 2-disc Criterion collection DVD is great.

Mr. Waits is about as good as an actor as he is a songwriter. Anything he touches is gold.