Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
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This is about a self-styled New York hipster (John Lurie of the Lounge Lizards) who is paid a suprise and quite unwelcome visit by his pretty sixteen-year-old Hungarian cousin. From initial hostility and indifference a strange affection grows between... (www.imdb.com/title/tt0088184/plotsummary)
 

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Awards
Stranger Than Paradise (1984) was nominated for the following awards:

Cannes Film Festival

1.
Golden Camera
1984
Won  

Sundance Film Festival

2.
Special Jury Prize
1985
Dramatic
Won  
3.
Grand Jury Prize
1985
Dramatic
Nominated  

Locarno International Film Festival

4.
Golden Leopard
1984
Won  
5.
Golden Leopard
1984
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention
Won  

Kinema Junpo Awards

6.
Kinema Junpo Award
1987
Best Foreign Language Film
Won  

Rotterdam International Film Festival

7.
KNF Award
1983
Won  
 

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  • Shooting was begun using leftover film stock from the production of Der Stand der Dinge (1982).
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  • 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.
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  • The whole film is sequence shots with live sound - editing consisted simply of putting them end to end.
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  • The car that Eddie borrows for their trip is a 1965 Dodge Coronet.
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  • The film`s scenes are each a single shot, followed by a few seconds of black screen.
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  • 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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