Waterloo - Cinematheque Waterloo is pleased to announce the first of its three-part series of films by independent American filmmaker, Jim Jarmusch. Mystery Train will be shown at the Original Princess Cinema for two days only: Sunday, May 10 at 2:30 pm, and Tuesday, May 12 at 7:00 pm. Patrick Faubert, a Ph.D. student of Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, will introduce each screening with a brief talk.

Since winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes in 1984, Jim Jarmusch has gained fame for his films’ quirky plots and deadpan humour. Mystery Train, described by Vincent Canby of the New York Times as “buoyantly funny from start to finish,” tells three stories set on the same night in the same hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. Their common denominator? Elvis, whose presence infuses the tourist experience of a teenage couple visiting from Yokohama; whose ghost visits the room of an Italian woman on her way to Italy with her late-husband’s ashes; and who provides a namesake for a British criminal holed up in the hotel following a botched liquor store robbery.

As with all Jarmusch’s films, Mystery Train is peopled with a cast of counterculture anti-heros and cult favourites. Steve Buscemi gives a brilliant performance in his recount of the TV show, Lost in Space; Screamin’ Jay Hawkins plays the hotel night clerk; Joe Stummer, of The Clash, plays the British criminal; Tom Waits makes a voice-only appearance, reprising his role of the DJ from Jarmusch’s Down By Law; and New York avant-garde musician, John Lurie, provides the soundtrack.

Join Cinematheque Waterloo for a rare presentation of this stylish, quirky film on the big screen.