The Jim Jarmusch Collection (6 Blu-ray)

A box set of Jim Jarmusch’s first six films: Permanent Vacation (1980), Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down By Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Night on Earth (1991) and Dead Man (1995). 

Permanent Vacation: A surreal tale as a Charlie Parker fan searches for meaning in downtown Manhattan. 

Stranger Than Paradise: A cult classic. A funny and perceptive trip through the American dream. 

Down By Law: In one of the hippest comedies ever made, in which three misfits find themselves thrown together in a New Orleans jail cell. There's Zack the unemployed DJ, Jack the small-time pimp and Bob, the crazy Italian tourist. Described by Jarmusch himself as a 'neo-beat-noir-comedy' which is 'part nightmare and part fairytale'. 

Set in Memphis, Mystery Train explores three different stories set on the same night, linked by one run-down hotel run by Night Clerk and his dishevelled bellboy. “Far From Yokohama” features a teenage couple from Japan making pilgrimage to Memphis, and the girl’s growing obsession with Elvis. “A Ghost” follows an Italian widow possibly with Mafia connections who receives a visitation from Memphis’s most famous resident whilst on a stop-over from escorting her husband’s coffin back to Italy …In ”Lost In Space” a violent liquor store robbery leaves the three perpetrators drunk and hiding out at the hotel, drawing closer over their reminiscences of a hit sci-fi show. Jarmusch based the film on I Put A Spell on You by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins who stars as the Night Clerk, alongside Cinque Lee, Nicholetta Braschi, Joe Strummer, Steve Buscemi, Vondis Curtis-Hall and Tom Waits. 

Night on Earth: A collection of five vignettes concerning the temporary bond formed between taxi driver and passenger in five different cities; Los Angeles – featuring Gena Rowlands and Winona Ryder, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki. Jarmusch takes us from city to city as the clock turns during the late hours of the night. Featuring a score by Tom Wait and also starring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Beatrice Dalle and Roberto Benigni. 

Dead Man is the story of a young man’s journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake (Johnny Depp) travels to the extreme western frontiers of America looking for work sometime in the latter half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded after becoming caught up in a murder, he encounters a very odd Native American outcast named Nobody (Gary Farmer), who believes Blake is actually the dead English poet of the same name and takes an interest in guiding him on a quest for identity. With Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne, Alfred Molina, John Hurt, Jared Harris, Billy Bob Thornton and a haunting soundtrack by Neil Young.