Book Review: Dead Man (1995)

[Katie-Ellen]

Title: Dead Man

Tagline: No one can survive becoming a legend.

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Western

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Cast: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Eugene Byrd, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne, Jared Harris, Mili Avital, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Mark Bringelson, John North, Alfred Molina, Billy Bob Thornton, Michelle Thrush, Steve Buscemi, Gibby Haynes

Release: 1995-12-23

Runtime: 121

Plot: On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.



It's a Western but not as you know it. Highly individual, unusual, violent, shockingly so...there's even cannibalism.... yet it somehow manages to be funny. Beautifully shot in black and white, it's as quirky and poetic as the hero's namesake, William Blake.
Fantastic score from Neil Young.

 

[Marc Joan]

Yup. One of my all time favourites. Great film.

 

[AgentPete]

Hello @Katie-Ellen,

We are changing the status of this ticket to closed as we have not heard back from you in 7 days.