| Fishing With John - Criterion Collection |  | Director: John Lurie
Actors: Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Dennis Hopper, Jim Jarmusch, Tom Waits
Studio: Criterion
Category: DVD
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 24,823
Format: Color, DVD, Special Edition, NTSC
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Running Time: 152 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: PMIDFIS060D
ISBN: 0780022076
UPC: 037429136621
EAN: 9780780022072
ASIN: 0780022076
Theatrical Release Date: 1992
Release Date: March 30, 1999
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 A Wonderful Film August 4, 2010
Brent (Anacortes, WA USA)
This is a great stire of the weekend fishing shows that used to play on the television. John Lurie knows nothing about the sport, but goes about each segment with a determination to follow through to the bitter end to get his prize. Wonderfully shot and the music is great as well. Even the narration is tops!
 Pure garbage March 20, 2010
T. Clutter (Clarkston, WA USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
It never ceases to amaze me how idiots can enjoy crappy film making like this, and rate it as excellent, filled with humor, etc., etc. Lurie is an idiot, who brings out the same in his guests. If that passes for humor today, then so be it. Lurie laughed all the way to the bank. I'm ever so glad that I previewed it on YouTube and did not pay for it. Unbelievable, pure garbage and a waste of time, spent with people who are full of themselves for no good reason.
Hard to Describe January 30, 2010
A. H. Carrigan (Lansing, MI USA)
These shows are strange, funny, and genre-defying. In a way they foreshadow the current trend of "reality television", but they also feel quite personal, both in their homespun production qualities and by giving the viewer the sense of being let in on an inside joke. Very enjoyable.
 Go Fish! January 7, 2010
Dan Allen (Denver, CO USA)
Fishing with John is in the John Lurie/Tom Waits/Jim Jaramusch realm. It showed on IFC. That's where I first saw it. There's not many "TV" related things that I like, but this is one. It contains stories, plain and simple. Deadpan humor. Also the director who wrote "Smoke" comes to mind, Wayne Wang?? I would add this to the list of good TV. And there aint' much... So cool to have it all on DVD instead of VHS. Fishing With John - Criterion Collection
It's no surprise that this really isn't about the fishing August 4, 2009
S. Taylor
John Lurie, best known as an actor in films such as Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law, and Permanent Vacation (all directed by Jim Jarmusch) and a founding member of the band The Lounge Lizards hosts this "fishing show" featuring a different friend and location for each episode. This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Fishing for shark in New York State with Jim Jarmusch? What do any of his guests know about fishing? Nothing. And that's why it works. It's about the awkward moments, furthered by the narration that at times is adding nothing to what is going on in the scene. Tom Waits is like a crazy drunken uncle that had a role based on him in "Apocalypse Now". I think this might be the best role Matt Dillon has ever had. I can only hope that John and his compatriots reminisce about this experience and do it again.
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