Jim Jarmusch Retrospective / Night Owl Cinema
DEAD MAN
Friday, September 13th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
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. (USA, 1995, 121 mins,
English | Dir. Jim Jarmusch)

