This interview with actor-composer John Lurie was shot for French television during the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
The following outtakes were assembled by Jay Rabinowitz, apprentice editor on DOWN BY LAW, who went on to edit many of Jim Jarmusch’s subsequent films.
Tom Waits recorded the Cole Porter classic “It’s All Right with Me” for the 1990 AIDS benefit album “Red Hot + Blue.” This music video for the song was directed by Jim Jarmusch in Los Angeles in 1989.