and directing reigns for the career-making feature.

Slide 8: From The New World to Stranger than Paradise

Escaping Ohio just led him back again. With aspirations in writing and music, Jim Jarmusch found his way out of Akron, through New York to Paris and back again, and eventually enrolled at NYU’s film school. Despite what he didn’t like about school, he did learn some techniques and met luminaries Nicholas Ray and Amos Poe, and early collaborator Tom DiCillo. Spending his tuition check on his first feature, Permanent Vacation (1980), the school said don’t come back and Jarmusch didn’t. He made a 30-minute film called The New World in 1982, using leftover film stock donated from Wim Wenders (who had made a doc on Nick Ray while Jarmusch was Ray’s assistant).a degree. They sent him one.

Slide 9: From Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB to THX 1138

The first award George Lucas won (well, I’m guessing, he could have played the violin in 6th grade to success) was for best film at the USC student showcase in 1967, with his 15-minute Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB. Francis Ford Coppola teamed up with Lucas to produce the feature version, the now-classic THX 1138, made in 1971. Decidedly minimal and La Jetee-esque, it is about a man in the future tagged as THX 1138 who runs through endless tunnels trying to escape from some sort of police state, that warns escapees to not go through that last door. While the feature expanded heavily on the story and characters, it’s the proficient short