Mystery Train Page #3

Synopsis: A Japanese couple obsessed with 1950s America goes to Memphis because the male half of the couple emulates Carl Perkins. Chance encounters link three different stories in the city, with the common thread being the seedy hotel where they are all staying.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Jim Jarmusch
Production: Orion Home Video
  1 win & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
80
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
1989
110 min
1,282 Views


from Mr. Roy Orbison...

along with the Roses - previously known

as the Teen Kings for you trivia fans -

with "Domino" here.

You're on the air until dawn.

It's 2:
17 right here in Memphis, Tennessee.

Right now, here's another one recorded

at Sun Studios, this time by the King himself.

That's right. Mr. Elvis Presley...

with one of my personal

early, early morning favorites...

"Blue Moon. "

# Blue moon #

Jun.

# You saw me standing alone #

# Without a dream in my heart #

Hold me.

# Without a love of my own #

# Blue moon #

# You knew just what

I was there for#

# You heard me say a prayer for #

# Someone I really could care for #

# Without a love of my own #

Damn.

You'd think they could get me a new uniform,

man. This one is shot to hell. Look at this.

Well, you should do like I do.

Should go over and buy

your own damn clothes...

over at Lansky's or somewhere like that.

I mean, you know, it's like they say -

"The clothes make the man. "

I mean, look at that damn hat

on your head.

You look like a damn

mosquito-legged chimpanzee.

I mean -

Mitzuko.

Wake up. It's morning.

The hotel is on fire.

Don't you want to go to Graceland?

Home of Elvis Presley.

Let me sleep.

It's my favorite thing - to sleep.

You sleep too much.

You spend half your life in your dreams.

Yeah.

But sleep is wonderful.

And when you're dead,

you don't get to sleep ever again.

Which means no more dreams.

Don't forget these.

Those? But they belong to the hotel.

In America, towels are included

in the price of the room.

Everyone knows that.

Well, they won't really fit in here.

That's because you have

a hundred T-shirts in there.

I only brought two shirts.

Get rid of some T-shirts.

No way! They're part of my collection.

We're not getting rid of any of these!

Never, never, never! Never!

Okay then. Go ahead.

But not both of them.

Pack the one I used.

- The one I used is drier.

- Yeah, but mine's cleaner.

You didn't take a bath.

Pack it neatly.

Was that a gun?

Probably. This is America.

That's everything, isn't it?

Did we forget anything?

...please pick up the white courtesy phone.

- The deceased is your husband?

- Si.

Can you sign right here, please?

And again here.

Please sign here.

Full boarding call, Flight 203.

And over here.

And here also.

And once more.

Thank you.

Otis Johnson.

Otis Johnson, please meet your party

at ticket counter -

Midwestern Air Flight 310,

with connections to Cleveland -

Hello! It's me!

In Memphis!

Memphis!

In the south of the United States,

in Tennessee!

We had a little trouble -

some stupid thing with the airplane! Yeah!

Yeah! A little problem!

Don't worry!

Tomorrow, we've got a connecting flight...

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Jim Jarmusch

James Robert Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor, and composer. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing such films as Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Paterson (2016). Stranger Than Paradise was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002. As a musician, Jarmusch has composed music for his films and released two albums with Jozef van Wissem. more…

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