Poster by Jim Jarmusch for the 2023 New York Film Festival.
Jarmusch's films have been selected by NYFF seven times in the past, with
Down by Law opening the 24th edition of the festival in 1986.
As a poster artist for NYFF, Jarmusch joins the ranks of Andy Warhol, Richard Avedon, David Hockney, Diane Arbus, Martin Scorsese, Julian Schnabel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Almodóvar, and John Waters. Jarmusch said in an official statement that "since arriving in New York City decades ago, attending the NYFF has been my version of going to church." He explains this choice as found after sorting through "several thousand useless" photographs taken since I was a teenager," useless meaning not intended for any practdical use. This one chosen is from the seventies, an "incidental portrait of a friend, hiding her face with a Japanese album cover from the 1960s. Its image is of film star Yûzô Kayama (
The Sword of Doom, Red Beard, Sanjuro, etc.) and rock musician (!)—an LP of his psychedelic surf band, The Launchers.”
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