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Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

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• Shooting was begun using leftover film stock from the production of Stand der Dinge, Der (1982).
  
  
• Started out as a 30-minute short subject film (shot in 1982) and was later expanded into a 3-part feature. The first section, "The New World," takes place in New York, the second, "One Year Later," in Cleveland, and the last, "Paradise," in Florida.
  
  
• The whole film is sequence shots with live sound - editing consisted simply of putting them end to end.
  
  

• The car that Eddie borrows for their trip is a 1965 Dodge Coronet.
  
  
• The film's scenes are each a single shot, followed by a few seconds of black screen.
  
  
• In the scene where Willie and Eddie pick up Eva from the Hot Dog stand, director Jim Jarmusch can be seen eating a hot dog while wearing a beanie in the background.
  
  

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