Editing Stranger Than Paradise (section)

==Legacy==
''Stranger Than Paradise'' broke many conventions of traditional [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] filmmaking<ref name="avclub" /> and became a landmark in modern independent film.<ref name="criterion" /> According to [[allmovie]], it is "one of the most influential movies of the 1980s", and cast "a wide shadow over the new generation of independent American filmmakers to come.<ref name=allmovieover/> It is cited for giving "an early example of the low-budget independent wave that would dominate the cinematic marketplace a decade later".<ref name=allmoviereview/> Its success accorded Jarmusch a certain iconic status within [[arthouse cinema]] as an idiosyncratic and uncompromising ''[[auteur]]'' exuding the aura of urban cool embodied by [[downtown Manhattan]].<ref name=indians/><ref name=rosenbaum/> In a 2005 profile of Jarmusch for ''[[The New York Times]]'', critic Lynn Hirschberg declared the film had "permanently upended the idea of independent film as an intrinsically inaccessible avant-garde form".<ref name="last" />

In 2002, ''Stranger Than Paradise'' was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It was included in [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]]'s Alternate 100, a response to the [[American Film Institute]]'s [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies|100 Years...100 Movies]] list.<ref name=reader/> In 2003, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' ranked it #26 on their list of "The Top 50 Cult Films".<ref name="cultofentertainment" /> ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' ranked it #14 on its list of 50 Greatest Independent Films of All Time.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.empireonline.com/features/50greatestindependent/14_13.asp#50independent |title=Empire Features<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2020-04-28 |archive-date=2015-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924051931/http://www.empireonline.com/features/50greatestindependent/14_13.asp#50independent |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Japanese filmmaker [[Akira Kurosawa]] cited ''Stranger Than Paradise'' as one of his favorite films.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/akira-kurosawa-100-favourite-films-list/ | title=Akira Kurosawa listed his 100 favourite films of all time | date=12 January 2021 | access-date=5 May 2022 | archive-date=10 June 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610003407/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/akira-kurosawa-100-favourite-films-list/ | url-status=live }}</ref>