Artist John Lurie invited filmmaker Jim Jarmusch on a shark fishing expedition off the coast of Montauk, Long Island. There, Lurie demonstrated a peculiar method for attracting sharks—using a chunk of cheese and a pistol.

The artist John Lurie once brought Tom Waits out to Jamaica for a snapper fishing trip. Waits succumbed to seasickness aboard the aged tugboat they’d chartered, but eventually managed to surprise Lurie with an unexpected gesture: placing a …

Filmmaker John Lurie invited actor Matt Dillon on a fishing expedition to Costa Rica, an adventure that led them to encounter a local village elder, who shared with them the traditional Fish Dance, and a guide asserting the extraordinary ab…

John Lurie brings actor Willem Dafoe on an ice-fishing trip to remote northern Maine. Having built a makeshift shelter and painstakingly drilled through the thick ice, their precarious situation takes a turn for the worse when Dafoe exhaust…

Driven by an unusual quest, John Lurie brought film actor Dennis Hopper to Thailand, intent on finding the legendary giant squid. Their initial search along the southern coastline proved fruitless, so they journeyed northward aboard a trawl…

John Lurie and actor Dennis Hopper pressed on with their quest to locate the legendary giant squid inhabiting the Thai coastline. Having taken a vessel from the order of squid monks, they quickly succumbed to an unsettling paralysis, ensnar…