- Actors: Johnny Depp, Lance Henriksen, Gary Wincott
- Directors: Jim Jarmusch
- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Universal Pictures UK
- DVD Release Date: 3 Oct 2005
- Run Time: 116 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000MZDV8G
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,574 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This disappointment from Jim Jarmusch stars Johnny Depp in a mystery-Western about a 19th-century accountant named William Blake, who spends nearly all his money getting to a hellish mud town in the old West and ends up penniless and doomstruck in the wilderness. A benevolent if goofy Native American (Gary Farmer) takes an interest in guiding Blake on a quest for identity in his earthly journey, but the film is really just a string of endless shtick about inbred woodsmen, dumb lawmen, and a trio of irritable killers. With Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne, Alfred Molina, and a noodling soundtrack by Neil Young. --Tom Keogh
Product Description
Dead man is the story of a young man's journey both physically and spiritually into the extreme Western frontiers of America sometime in the second half of the 19th Century
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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I simply cannot understand the published Amazon review of this movie by Tom Keogh. He describes the soundtrack as 'noodling' and the theme as 'endless shtick'-What is such a bonehead doing reviewing films? Has he been born to endless night?
Let me be clear; this is one of the most beautiful westerns I have ever seen with a brilliant rasping guitar soundtrack by Neil Young that captures the film's essence entirely. The black and white photography and camera placement and eye for natural beauty laced with desperate ugliness reminds me of the clarity of the Japanese cinema of Mizoguchi, and particularly the waving bamboo leaves in Shindo's 'Onibaba'.
In addition to the brilliant direction and a cracking script from Jim Jarmusch and the photographic genius of Robby Muller we have a cast that includes Johnny Depp (hey, just think how hard it is to die over an entire film!). The great Robert Mitchum, John Hurt and even a comic Shakepearean cameo with Billy Bob Thornton and Iggy Pop, as well as the beautiful Mili Avital as Thel Russell-the ultimate femme fatale with the paper roses!
Equally the three doomed killers provide lots of bizarre comic moments.
The arrival of William Blake (Johnny Depp) into town and the scene leading to his meeting with Dickinson (Robert Mitchum) is one of the best depictions of the dystopia of the alleged Wild West I have ever seen as well as one of the few insights into the horrors of the American Industrial Revolution. I highly recommend this film if you enjoy watching literate, subtle, well crafted and intelligent films.
Let me be clear; this is one of the most beautiful westerns I have ever seen with a brilliant rasping guitar soundtrack by Neil Young that captures the film's essence entirely. The black and white photography and camera placement and eye for natural beauty laced with desperate ugliness reminds me of the clarity of the Japanese cinema of Mizoguchi, and particularly the waving bamboo leaves in Shindo's 'Onibaba'.
In addition to the brilliant direction and a cracking script from Jim Jarmusch and the photographic genius of Robby Muller we have a cast that includes Johnny Depp (hey, just think how hard it is to die over an entire film!). The great Robert Mitchum, John Hurt and even a comic Shakepearean cameo with Billy Bob Thornton and Iggy Pop, as well as the beautiful Mili Avital as Thel Russell-the ultimate femme fatale with the paper roses!
Equally the three doomed killers provide lots of bizarre comic moments.
The arrival of William Blake (Johnny Depp) into town and the scene leading to his meeting with Dickinson (Robert Mitchum) is one of the best depictions of the dystopia of the alleged Wild West I have ever seen as well as one of the few insights into the horrors of the American Industrial Revolution. I highly recommend this film if you enjoy watching literate, subtle, well crafted and intelligent films.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Who is this Tom Keogh (the Amazon reviewer)? Whoever he is, he has completely missed the point. It is not an "earthly journey". It is a journey through the Bardo. He fails to mention William Blake completely! I loved this film. It is one of the most interesting and memorable films I have seen in many years. It works on a number of different levels -- you don't need to know anything about the Bardo or William Blake to appreciate the film (but it helps to know a bit).
28 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film is incredible, a truly outstanding piece of film making (ignore the crazy French women who thinks its 'TOO weird'). Its a beautifully shot western (of sorts) filmed in Monochrome adding to the dark air of the whole movie.
Its a simple story about a man (Johnny Depp/William Blake)who after travelling west across america, to the frontier for work, finds the job has been taken and he is alone in a strange land. After getting involved in murder he is on the run (wounded/dying)in the big expanse of the American Wild West.
He is befreinded by 'Nobody' a native American who will be his spirit guide from this world to the next! (Far out!) - from this point onwards the film just gets better and better. Its funny, Strange, well acted, has a stella cast including Iggy Pop, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum (yes - ROBERT MITCHUM!)and many others.
Its the perfect vehicle for Johnny Depp and Neil Young who is in charge of the soundtrack (I'm listening to it now!)its haunting, beautiful, angry and sparse. This film is a must see for anyone with a soul, who is sick of Hollywood big screen crap. This film is intelligent and moving. Though maybe i'm biased as I enjoy, westerns, johnny depp/jim jarmusch movies (most of them) and Neil Young - i'm in heaven. Go on try it... 'Some are born to sweet delight... some are born to endless night.'
Its a simple story about a man (Johnny Depp/William Blake)who after travelling west across america, to the frontier for work, finds the job has been taken and he is alone in a strange land. After getting involved in murder he is on the run (wounded/dying)in the big expanse of the American Wild West.
He is befreinded by 'Nobody' a native American who will be his spirit guide from this world to the next! (Far out!) - from this point onwards the film just gets better and better. Its funny, Strange, well acted, has a stella cast including Iggy Pop, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum (yes - ROBERT MITCHUM!)and many others.
Its the perfect vehicle for Johnny Depp and Neil Young who is in charge of the soundtrack (I'm listening to it now!)its haunting, beautiful, angry and sparse. This film is a must see for anyone with a soul, who is sick of Hollywood big screen crap. This film is intelligent and moving. Though maybe i'm biased as I enjoy, westerns, johnny depp/jim jarmusch movies (most of them) and Neil Young - i'm in heaven. Go on try it... 'Some are born to sweet delight... some are born to endless night.'
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Along with "Unforgiven", the best western around since the 60's
A fantastic homage to the western genre, Dead Man is most certainly Jim Jarmusch's best film and probably Johnny Depp's defining performance. Read more
Published 4 months ago by MaximumHeat
Dead Good
Jim Jarmusch has created a body of work that has attracted a variety of interesting people. His visions are unconventional, personal and are not always easily appreciated. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Merlin's Owl
Conradeske journey into darkness
This is a weird and bizarre masterpiece that someone like sam peckinpah would create ...it's the dark and morbid tale of a mortally wounded man in the final days of his life that's... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Colin Powis
Highly Poetic and Meditative Movie.
Dead Man...I saw this film when I was seventeen years old, attracted by its strong visual symbolism connected with poetry and spiritual journey of a dying man. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr. M. Storcel
not one of his best
i brought this because i like johnny depp but was diserpointed in this very slow looks like a very cheap b movie with a bad sound track that you are totaly sick of by the end. Read more
Published 11 months ago by mrs m
Dead Man
One of the best films ever made.
Shot in monochrome ( black & white.) with an amazing sound track from Neil Young ( acoustic & electric guitar. Read more
Shot in monochrome ( black & white.) with an amazing sound track from Neil Young ( acoustic & electric guitar. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Philip J. Dobson
Slow
This film is very slow with not much dialogue, I bought it for the music of Neil Young and saw the high profile cast and really looked forward to viewing it. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Baz
A Surreal, Dark, Treasure.
I have to agree with the other reviewers - Tom Keogh has missed a winner. I stumbled upon a DVD of this film a couple of years ago; I had never heard of it before and I've not... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Nick Braithwaite
Visual Poetry.
With a name like William Blake, the `Dead Man' has to be poetic, and it is. Add to that Neil Young's music, a double treat!
Published 21 months ago by Mindgarden
A lot better than that...if you want to see something different
The Amazon reviewer should stick to reviewing spiderman 6 and Harry Potter 14. Not a Hollywood blockbuster. Nor a breezy romcom. Or a sweeping epic. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Jim Fish
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