Summer Rewind: 1995
Dead Man
June 4 & 8: Casino June 5: The Celluloid Closet (Queer West Film Fest)
June 6 - 8: Safe
June 7: Babe
June 11 & 15: Heat
June 13 - 15: Welcome to the Dollhouse
June 14: Batman Forever
June 17: La Haine (Cinema Abroad)
June 18 & 22: Seven
June 19: Devil in a Blue Dress (Essential Cinema)June 20 - 22: To Die For
June 21: Jumanji
June 24: Ghost in the Shell (Persistence of Vision: Animated Masterworks)
June 25 & 29: 12 Monkeys June 26: GoldenEye (Knockout Cinema)
June 27 - 29: Dead Man
June 28: Tommy Boy
Dead Man: With Dead Man, his first period piece, Jim Jarmusch imagined the nineteenth-century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country’s legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death. Accountant William Blake (Johnny Depp) has hardly arrived in the godforsaken outpost of Machine before he’s caught in the middle of a fatal lovers’ quarrel. Wounded and on the lam, Blake falls under the watch of the outcast Nobody (Gary Farmer), who guides his companion on a spiritual journey, teaching him to dispense poetic justice along the way. Featuring austerely beautiful black-and-white photography by Robby Müller and a live-wire score by Neil Young, Dead Man is a profound and unique revision of the western genre.