Editing Jim Jarmusch (section)

=== 2000s ===
A five-year gap followed the release of ''Ghost Dog'', which the director has attributed to a creative crisis he experienced in the aftermath of the [[September 11 attacks]] in New York City.<ref name=hattenstone/> 2004 saw the eventual release of ''[[Coffee and Cigarettes]]'', a collection of eleven short films of characters sitting around drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes that had been filmed by Jarmusch over the course of the previous two decades. The first vignette, "Strange to Meet You", had been shot for and aired on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' in 1986, and paired Roberto Benigni with comedian [[Steven Wright]]. This had been followed three years later by "Twins", a segment featuring actors [[Steve Buscemi]] and [[Joie Lee|Joie]] and [[Cinqué Lee]], and then in 1993 with the [[Short Film Palme d'Or]]-winning "Somewhere in California", starring musicians Tom Waits and [[Iggy Pop]].<ref name=rush/>

He followed ''Coffee and Cigarettes'' in 2005 with ''[[Broken Flowers]]'', which starred [[Bill Murray]] as an early retiree who goes in search of the mother of his unknown son in attempt to overcome a midlife crisis. Following the release of ''Broken Flowers'', Jarmusch signed a deal with [[Fortissimo Films]], whereby the distributor would fund and have "first-look" rights to the director's future films,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dawtrey|first=Adam|date=2005-05-17|title=Jarmusch in bloom|url=https://variety.com/2005/film/news/jarmusch-in-bloom-1117922936/|access-date=2021-06-21|website=Variety|language=en-US}}</ref> and cover some of the overhead costs of his production company, Exoskeleton.<ref name=dawtrey/> The film premiered at the [[2005 Cannes Film Festival|58th Cannes Film Festival]] where it competed for the [[Palme d'Or]] and received the [[Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)|Grand Prix]]. Film critic [[Peter Bradshaw]] for ''[[The Guardian]]'' described the film as "Jarmusch's most enjoyable, accessible work for some time, perhaps his most emotionally generous film...a very attractive piece of film-making, bolstered by terrific performances from an all-star cast, spearheaded by endlessly droll, seductively sensitive Bill Murray."<ref>{{cite web| url= https://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/reviews/12373/ | title= Ex Marks the Spot|first=Peter |last=Bradshaw | author-link= Peter Bradshaw | date= 15 August 2005 | work= [[New York (magazine)|New York]]|access-date=2020-12-30}}</ref>

In 2009, Jarmusch released ''[[The Limits of Control]]'', a sparse, meditative crime film set in Spain, it starred [[Isaach de Bankolé]] as a lone assassin with a secretive mission.<ref name=tobias/> A behind-the-scenes documentary, ''Behind Jim Jarmusch'', was filmed over three days on the set of the film in [[Seville]] by director Léa Rinaldi.<ref name=rinaldi/> Also in 2009, Jarmusch appeared as himself in an episode of the HBO series ''[[Bored to Death]]'', and the following year, Jarmusch helped to curate the [[All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|All Tomorrow's Parties]] music festival in Monticello, New York.