Conversation so far:
Can you tell me a little about the first features and rise to fame?
Permanent Vacation and Stranger than Paradise?
Jarmusch's final year university project was completed in 1980 as Permanent Vacation, his first feature film.
How did well did critics like this first feature film?
did not attract the sort of adulation from critics that greeted his later work.
What are some important aspects of this feature film?
The 75 minute quasi-autobiographical feature follows an adolescent drifter (Chris Parker) as he wanders around downtown Manhattan.
Did this film finally attract other critics?
The Washington Post staff writer Hal Hinson would disparagingly comment in an aside during a review of Jarmusch's Mystery Train (1989.
Did the autiobiographical later become successful?
Permanent Vacation is nevertheless one of the director's most personal films, and established many of the hallmarks he would exhibit in his later work.

Question: Did he finally rise to fame?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Jarmusch finally rise to fame?