Dead Man - The Criterion Collection

With Dead Man, his first period piece, Jim Jarmusch imagined the nineteenth-century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country's legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death. Accountant William Blake (Johnny Depp) has hardly arrived in the godforsaken outpost of Machine before he's caught in the middle of a fatal lovers' quarrel. Wounded and on the lam, Blake falls under the watch of the outcast Nobody (Gary Farmer), who guides his companion on a spiritual journey, teaching him to dispense poetic justice along the way. Featuring austerely beautiful black-and-white photography by Robby Müller and a live-wire score by Neil Young, Dead Man is a profound and unique revision of the western genre.

Special Features

Bonus Footage, Commentary: Selected-scene commentary by Bob Ziembicki (production designer) and Drew Kunin (sound mixer), Deleted Scenes, Interviews: Gary Farmer (actor), Q&A with Jim Jarmusch (writer/director); Footage of Neil Young composing and performing the film's score; Readings of William Blake poems by members of the cast, including Mili Avital, Alfred Molina and Iggy Pop, accompanied by Jarmusch's location-scouting photos; Colour photos from the film's production; Essays by Amy Taubin (film critic) and Ben Ratliff (music journalist); Cover by Nessim Higson, Trailers

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Lance Henriksen, Eugene Byrd, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Gabriel Byrne, Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Wincott, Crispin Glover, Iggy Pop, Jared Harris, Gary Farmer, John Hurt, Mili Avital

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 121 minutes

Number of Discs: 2

Subtitle Languages: English

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