NYFF: Paterson and The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
Here’s Manuel reporting from the New York Film Festival with two projects on unassuming artists.
Paterson
In Paterson, Adam Driver plays a bus driver named Paterson. He lives in the New Jersey town by the same name and, living up to the town's poetic tradition (it was home to both Allen Ginsberg and William Carlos Williams), jots down verses in between bus shifts.
Jim Jarmusch's latest is just as precious as that description makes it sound and that's before I tell you that it's structured around a week in the life of Paterson, with every day marked by the same routine...