Dead Man (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R
No one can survive becoming a legend.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: April 24, 2018
- Originally Released: 1995
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton, Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Michael Wincott, Lance Henriksen, Gabriel Byrne, Mili Avital & Robert Mitchum | |
Performer: | Alfred Molina, Eugene Byrd, Michelle Thrush & Jared Harris | |
Directed by | Jim Jarmusch | |
Edited by | Jay Rabinowitz | |
Screenwriting by | Jim Jarmusch | |
Composition by | Neil Young | |
Produced by | Demetra J. MacBride | |
Director of Photography: | Robby Müller |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
Dead Man is surprisingly bland. And it becomes more dull -- and more grotesque -- as it moves along.
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Rating: 4/10 --
In this movie, Jarmusch displays an uncanny knack of having absolutely nothing happening on the screen for long periods of time, fading to black, and then coming back with still more nothing.
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Laramie Movie Scope
...DEAD MAN looks beautiful....Neil Young's soundtrack has many moments of great beauty...
Sight and Sound
I don't mean to dismiss Dead Man as worthless, or meaningless. Jarmusch just happens to express himself in a deadpan manner that just happens to have no appeal for me whatsoever. Of course, I only say this because he is an "artist."
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San Francisco Examiner
...Hilarious, silly, facetious, violent, mystical....DEAD MAN is finally a poignant lament for the cursed coming of the white man to the West...
Los Angeles Times
[It's a] bizarre, funny, almost mystical take on the Western
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Time Out
The film's pleasures are simply too elusive and mild to make up for a lack of narrative propulsion.
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Variety
Product Description:
In bringing his distinct vision to the Western genre, writer-director Jim Jarmusch has created a quasi-mystical avant-garde drama that remains a deeply spiritual viewing experience. After losing his parents and fiancée, a Cleveland accountant named William Blake (a remarkable Johnny Depp) spends all his money and takes a train to the frontier town of Machine in order to work at a factory. Upon arriving in Machine, he is denied his expected job and finds himself a fugitive after murdering a man in self-defense. Wounded and helpless, Blake is befriended by Nobody (Gary Farmer), a wandering Native American who considers him to be a ghostly manifestation of the famous poet. Nobody aids Blake in his flight from three bumbling bounty hunters, preparing him for his final journey--a return to the world of the spirits.
Jarmusch once again employs the beautifully contrasted black-and-white photography of Robby Müller, which sets a poetic, dreamy mood. He also fades in and out of scenes in order to better reflect Blake's dazed, weak mental state. Adding an even greater depth to the film is Neil Young's haunting score, which completes the overall effect. DEAD MAN stands firmly as a timeless work of art whose impact only increases upon subsequent viewings.
Jarmusch once again employs the beautifully contrasted black-and-white photography of Robby Müller, which sets a poetic, dreamy mood. He also fades in and out of scenes in order to better reflect Blake's dazed, weak mental state. Adding an even greater depth to the film is Neil Young's haunting score, which completes the overall effect. DEAD MAN stands firmly as a timeless work of art whose impact only increases upon subsequent viewings.
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