Dead Man
Part of BAMcinemaFEST
Thu, Jul 2 at 6:30pm
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
With Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Gabriel Byrne, Crispin Glover, Robert Mitchum
1995, 121 min
A BAMcinématek audience favorite that screened to full houses in both our Jim Jarmusch and Johnny Depp retrospectives, Jarmusch's enigmatic Western stars Depp as William Blake, an accountant who travels West from Cleveland in hopes of landing a job. Hauntingly photographed in black and white and featuring a plaintive score by Neil Young, Dead Man inverts a familiar genre, reconfiguring the desolate Western landscape as a backdrop for existential exploration.