Jim Jarmusch

Jim Jarmusch is an American independent film director and screenwriter noted for his stationary camera style. He's directed such well-known films as Dead Man, Coffee and Cigarettes and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.

Jarmusch's latest film, The Limits of Control was released in May 2009. The film, which follows the adventures of a hired killer named the Lone Man, received a poor review from the Boston Globe who felt that the places the film goes "become tedious in their affected emptiness."Boston Globe: Review: The Limits of Control (May 8, 2009) The Limits of Control garnered similar lukewarm reviews from the Seattle Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Jarmusch graduated in 1975 from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in English. With no prior film experience, he was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Just before graduation Jarmusch dropped out and chose to funnel his scholarship funds into his first feature film. The film, Permanent Vacation, introduced audiences to Jarmusch's trademark stationary camera style that he would continue to develop in Stranger Than Paradise and Down by Law.

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• January 22, 1953: Born

• 1980: Permanent Vacation

• 1984: Stranger Than Paradise

• 1986: Down By Law

• 1989: Mystery Train

• 1991: Night on Earth

• 1995: Dead Man

• 1997: Year of the Horse

• 1999: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

• 2003: Coffee and Cigarettes

• 2005: Broken Flowers