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DVD

Dead man

Call Number

  • DVD ACTION (CEN, WSQ)

Edition

Director-approved DVD special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Eugene Byrd, Mili Avital, Crispin Glover, Iggy Pop, Billy Bob Thornton, Jared Harris, Gabriel Byrne, John Hurt, Alfred Molina, Robert Mitchum.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2018]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (121 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

Audience

MPAA rating: R; for moments of strong violence, a graphic sex scene and some language.

Summary

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 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, 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.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1995.

Special features: New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch ; 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, accompanied by Jarmusch's location-scouting photos ; new selected-scene audio commentary by production designer Bobt Ziembicki and sound mixer Drew Kunin ; deleted scenes ; color photos from the film's production ; trailer.

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