Before Sundance and Soderbergh, STRANGER THAN PARADISE pretty much defined what was an independent film. Shot in beautiful Black and White, with long unedited takes, this movie seems like slow going at the outset, but if you stay with it, you'll get into it. You sort of have to adjust yourself OUT OF the rhythms of Hollywood movie-making. Not a masterpiece, but I love this movie anyways. At the time of its release, it was just so, so, so... different. And it still is almost 20 years later! And Screamin' Jay Hawkins is THE MAN!