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He reveals how Down by Law remains a personal touchstone for him -- a moment where the ideal creative situation (a combination of cast, crew, and combined working methods) coalesced.
Whenever a reporter asked a question about particular influences on Down by Law, such as film noir, Jarmusch answered disingenuously, claiming he didn't understand the question, or impatiently, saying it wasn't a good question.
Down by Law is now available on DVD from The Criterion Collection in new widescreen digital transfer.
It's been said that "Down by Law" is not about hip but about the way hip insulates you from life, and you can find that in the performances -- Benigni, a comedian famous in Italy, pumps life into "Down by Law," just as Lurie's dour self-involvement sucks life out of it.
There's a kind of snobbism just beneath the surface of "Down by Law," a movie that isn't about the liabilities of a certain kind of attitude toward life, but about having that attitude and not being able to pull it off.
In "Down by Law," he's made that kind of movie, but he's worked from the outside in.
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