Dead Man

Dead Man is likely Jim Jarmusch’s most stunning achievement.

The mordant, deadpan humor that streaks through Dead Man is echt Jarmusch, but it's in the service of his most mysterious and deeply felt movie, a meditation on death and transfiguration that, by the end, has thrown off the protective veil of irony. [03 Jun 1996, Pg.75]

It's a tale that subtly reinterprets the genre and delivers Jarmusch's most accomplished, if not necessarily his most accessible film to date.

Like his previous efforts, Jarmusch's sidelong take on Western conventions relies upon quirky tone, hipsterish performances and a highly refined visual style to put it over.

It's not a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination, just one that grabs your attention and then lets it go, time and time again.

After a promising beginning and an amusing middle, the movie gets stuck in limbo.

Particularly because unlike so many other boring movies one sees, Jarmusch films require many more words to explain the boringness than less certifiably artistic films would.

One of the most essential movies Jarmusch has made, belongs in the hall of fame of American film. Loving the intertextuality of the film (if you like William Blake's poems, you will enjoy this film), and Neil Young's original score is one of the best I've heard. If you have a short attention-span, you might find the film tiring though - you need the right kind of mood and mental state for watching it, be aware of that, but dont let it put you off.

With all that relaxed, unhurried tone, what makes this western attractive is how Jim Jarmusch gave it its own identity, with the story of a man sentenced from the first minute, to die.

It is a mystical western movie made in 1995. The movie was shot in black and white. It tells the story of a man who came to the place where he found a job by spending all his money from a far place and becomes a wanted murderer reluctantly when he is not hired. In his fugitive days, he is accompanied by an Indian named Nobody. The lead role belongs to Johnny Deep, who has always taken it upon himself to portray interesting characters. But the real acting lesson is given by Gary Farmer, who plays the role of the Indian. The guitar solo in the movie is perfect. There are some sexually explicit scenes in the movie.

a long movie with some nice scenes, but somehow the movie is weird and difficult to understand. The guitar music was annyoing.

Accountant travels from Cleveland to a remote town to take a new job, job has gone when he gets there, kills someone, has a bounty put on him, goes on the run. Not one of JD's better films despite having some very good cameos throughout. Lance Henriksen & Crispin Glover are excellent but the Indian (Nobody) annoyed the hell out of me. Also felt that the story was too disjointed in parts and, as much as I like Neil Young, thought the soundtrack was a bit cheesy too.