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.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- New Q&A in which Jarmusch responds to questions sent in by fans
- Rarely seen footage of Neil Young composing and performing the film’s score
- New interview with actor Gary Farmer
- New readings of William Blake poems by members of the cast, including Mili Avital, Alfred Molina, and Iggy Pop
- New selected-scene audio commentary by production designer Bob Ziembicki and sound mixer Drew Kunin
- Deleted scenes
- Jarmusch’s location scouting photos
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Essays by film critic Amy Taubin and music journalist Ben Ratliff
New cover by Nessim Higson
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- New Q&A in which Jarmusch responds to questions sent in by fans
- Rarely seen footage of Neil Young composing and performing the film’s score
- New interview with actor Gary Farmer
- New readings of William Blake poems by members of the cast, including Mili Avital, Alfred Molina, and Iggy Pop
- New selected-scene audio commentary by production designer Bob Ziembicki and sound mixer Drew Kunin
- Deleted scenes
- Jarmusch’s location scouting photos
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Essays by film critic Amy Taubin and music journalist Ben Ratliff
New cover by Nessim Higson
Cast
- Johnny Depp
- William Blake
- Gary Farmer
- Nobody
- Lance Henriksen
- Cole Wilson
- Michael Wincott
- Conway Twill
- Mili Avital
- Thel Russell
- Iggy Pop
- Salvatore “Sally” Jenko
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Big George Drakoulious
- Jared Harris
- Benmont Tench
- Crispin Glover
- Train fireman
- Eugene Byrd
- Johnny “The Kid” Pickett
- Michelle Thrush
- Nobody’s girlfriend
- Jimmie Ray Weeks
- Marvin (older marshal)
- Mark Bringelson
- Lee (younger marshal)
- Gabriel Byrne
- Charlie Dickinson
- John Hurt
- John Scholfield
- Alfred Molina
- Trading-post missionary
- Robert Mitchum
- John Dickinson
Credits
- Director
- Jim Jarmusch
- Written by
- Jim Jarmusch
- Producer
- Demetra J. MacBride
- Director of photography
- Robby Müller
- Edited by
- Jay Rabinowitz
- Music composed and performed by
- Neil Young
- Production designer
- Robert Ziembicki
- Costume designer
- Marit Allen
- Coproducer
- Karen Koch
- Casting by
- Ellen Lewis
- Casting by
- Laura Rosenthal
A scene from Dead Man
