Night on Earth

Opening the second episode in writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s five-part feature on taxi drivers and their rides, Giancarlo Esposito as Yoyo can’t get a ride, until Armin Mueller-Stahl, as Helmut, drives up, in Night On Earth, 1991.

Tom Waits’ bumpy original theme song from his soundtrack, director Jim Jarmusch’s quasi-animated opening, and landing on the first clock and city, Los Angeles, in the five-vignette feature Night On Earth, 1991, starring Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Roberto Benigni, and more.

From the Los Angeles story (from writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s five taxi-themed episodes), just-introduced movie exec Victoria (Gena Rowlands) meets foul-mouthed cabby Corky, early in Night On Earth, 1991.