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“ Where does this music come from? From the heavens or from the ground? Now it’s stopped. ” --- A quote from Shakespeare’s The Tempest , used as the end quote for The Postman’s White Nights A ny serious Konchalovsky film viewer will recall that the end-quotes of his films, when used, are very important to put the tale one just viewed in its intended perspective.  He did use it with aplomb in Runaway Train (a quote from Shakespeare’s Richard III ) and Shy People (a quote from Revelations in the Bible ). What is the music he is referring to? It would be too simplistic to consider it to be the music of the film’s composer Eduard Artemev, the talented composer of Tarkovsky’s three monumental works— Solaris, Stalker and Mirror , and the important Russian sci-fi film Dr Ivan’s Silence. The music is most likely to be a metaphor for the waves of good and evil forces that an average Russian encounters in life and learns to live with over time. The real postman Aleksey Triyapitsyn "acts...

P aterson would appear to be a simple tale; but it is not. It is a film where Jim Jarmusch the original scriptwriter over-shadows Jim Jarmusch the director. Yet they are both the same individual in two roles. The script is trenchant; it is brilliant. The direction follows the script. A script on a week in the life of a bus driver who writes poetry. Bus driver Paterson (Adam Driver) at work Optimistic, poetic Paterson  lives in Paterson City, where commercial activity obviously is  in distress (see signage on the walls) W hy is this original script brilliant? Paterson, in the movie, refers to several things—it is the name of the lead character (the bus driver and amateur poet); it is the name of the city in New Jersey, USA, where the story takes place; it is the name of the volume of the collection of poems of Pulitzer Prize winning US poet William Carlos Williams who worked as a paediatrician in Paterson, New Jersey.  Scriptwriter Jarmusch’s lead character is a bus drive...