Directed by:
Jim JarmuschScreenplay:
Jim JarmuschCinematography:
Robby MüllerComposer:
Neil YoungCast:
Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Mili Avital, Crispin Glover, Gabriel Byrne, John Hurt, Alfred Molina, Eugene Byrd, Robert Mitchum (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
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. (Criterion)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Independent Spirit Awards
- 1997 - Demetra J. MacBride (Best Feature)
- 1997 - Gary Farmer (Best Supporting Male)
- 1997 - Jim Jarmusch (Best Screenplay)
- 1997 - Robby Müller (Best Cinematography)
European Film Awards
- 1996 - Jim Jarmusch (Screen International Award)
Cannes Film Festival
- 1995 - Jim Jarmusch (Golden Palm - Official Competition)