"Dead Man"
About the event
The Facets Film Forum puts it best! "A hallucinatory Western drifting between life and death, *Dead Man* (1995) is Jim Jarmusch’s haunting meditation on violence, capitalism, and spiritual decay in the American frontier. [...] Shot in stark black-and-white by Robby Müller, *Dead Man* transforms the Western landscape into something spectral and dreamlike—an expanse where time loosens and identity dissolves. Neil Young’s improvised electric guitar score cuts through the film like a living presence, alternately mournful and volatile, echoing Blake’s gradual shedding of self. Both elegy and indictment, *Dead Man* dismantles the mythology of the American West while embracing its poetry. It is a journey inward as much as outward—an uncanny, drifting film about disappearance, language, and the fragile boundary between the living and the dead."
After the screening we'll head to the Warehouse on 1419 W. Fullerton to talk how this movie fits with Jarmusch's films, with other films in Depp's career, and with the Western genre in general. Tickets are $14, and it's recommended to pick them up in advance, which you can do from this link: https://facets.org/programs/dead-man/
