Dead Man. 1995. USA. Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. With Johnny Depp, Robert Mitchum, Gary Farmer. 120 min.
Johnny Depp stars in one of his first truly mature roles as William Blake, an accountant turned fugitive fleeing across the Valley of Death in Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, a visionary allegorical Western whose meditative rhythms recall Kenji Mizoguchi and the American Transcendentalists. Ellen Lewis enlisted Laura Rosenthal on the casting of the film, which also features Robert Mitchum in one of his last performances, together with a grizzled and wizened John Hurt, Jared Harris, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton…and Iggy Pop.