Dead Man

“Dead Man thrills me. The films of Jim Jarmusch just really get my blood pumping. This one’s from 1995. It’s Johnny Depp as William Blake. But not that William Blake. His Sancho Panza, played by the great Indigenous actor Gary Farmer, he steals the show from one of the top movie stars of our day. To take in the filmmaking is just searingly good, it’s… it’s like reading The Brothers Karamazov, if Neil Young was standing next to you, like, ripping on his Old Black guitar.”

“This film is called Dead Man. It’s by Jim Jarmusch. I think it might be my favorite Jim Jarmusch film. It reminds me in some ways of a Cormac McCarthy story, in that this guy goes on a journey, he encounters people, he runs into a Native American community in the Northwest. Oh, the score is by Neil Young. Apparently, he did the score by going into a score-recording studio and just saying, “Play the movie and I’ll just improvise.” It’s a period movie, black and white.”

“That is where we found Jim Jarmusch. So let's get a Jarmusch film. Got to. All right, you want to talk about Dead Man? Go ahead. Our entire film Education initially came from the dollar bin at Dave's Video. The movies that people didn't watch, that included movies by Jim Jarmusch.”