DEAD MAN

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.

“A fairytale oat opera that howls in the moonlight, Jim Jarmusch’s most uncompromising feature picks up where Kafka’s ‘Amerika’ leaves off, with the innocent young hero – a Cleveland accountant named William Blake – hurtling into the mysterious, limitless west. Set in the 1870s and filled with creepy period details, DEAD MAN equally suggests an imaginary, post-apocalyptic 1970s, the wilderness populated by degenerate hippies and acid-ripped loners.” –J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE

[We regret to announce that we will not be able to screen DEAD MAN on 35mm, as we hoped - the screening will instead be from DCP.]

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