Recommended reading - Dead Man

Dead Man

by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Published by British Film Institute.
Published 2000.
 
ISBN-10: 0851708064
ISBN-13: 9780851708065
 
Description:

“The book follows the narrative and picks out some of the stand-out cameos as well as some of the choice of dialogue, music, style and violence within. Just another good choice from the BFI/Palgrave on another solid film with heavy content.” – Filmwerk.

When it was released in 1995, Dead Man puzzled many audiences and critics. Jim Jarmusch's reputation was for directing slick, hip contemporary films. And Dead Man was a black-and-white Western. As time has passed, though, the number of its admirers has grown rapidly. Indeed, Dead Man, with its dark and unconventional treatment of violence, racism and capitalism, may be Jarmusch's finest work to date.

This is Jonathan Rosenbaum's view. For him, Dead Man is both a quantum leap and a logical next step in Jarmusch's career. Starring Johnny Depp as the uprooted accountant William Blake and Gary Farmer as his enigmatic Native American companion, Nobody, and with startling cameos from Robert Mitchum, John Hurt and Iggy Pop, Dead Man is by turns shocking, comic and deeply moving. This book explores and celebrates a masterpiece of 1990s American cinema.

Born on this day – Dashiell Hammett:

Dashiell Hammett

Writer

May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961

Credits:

Books:

A Man Called Spade (1944); Books to Die For (2012); Breakdown and Other Thrillers (1968); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989); Creeping Siamese and Other Stories (1950); Creeps by Night (2020); Dashiell Hammett: A Retrospective Anthology (2004); Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories and Other Writings (2001); Dead Yellow Woman (1947); Great Tales of Crime and Detection (1992); Hammett Homicides (1946); Lost Stories (2005); Murder Plus (1992); Nightmare Town and Other Stories (1950); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); Red Brain and Other Thrillers (1961); Red Harvest (1929); Return of the Thin Man (2012); San Francisco Noir 2 (2009); Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960 (2002); Tales of Mystery (1986); The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories (1944); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Big Knockover (1966); The Continental Op (1974); The Crime Wave (2007); The Dain Curse (1929); The Glass Key (1931); The Hunter (2013); The Hunter and Other Stories (2013); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Maltese Falcon (1930); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000); The Thin Man (1934); They Can Only Hang You Once (1944); Vintage Hammett (2005); Woman In The Dark (1933).

Movies and television:

Monsieur Spade (2024); Cineficción Radio (2021); No Good Deed (2002); Fallen Angels (1995); Miller's Crossing (1990); Sam Spade jagt den Malteser Falken (1986); Bande (1986); When the Raven Flies (1984); The Wizard of Malta (1981); La ciudad maldita (1978); The Dain Curse (1978); The Last Round (1976); The Black Bird (1975); The Wide World of Mystery (1975); Maltézský sokol (1968); Der Steckbrief (1967); The Thin Man (1957–1959); Teledrama (1956–1959); The Fat Man (1951); Studio One (1949); Song of the Thin Man (1947); Secret Agent X-9 (1945); The Thin Man Goes Home (1944); Watch on the Rhine (1943); The Glass Key (1942); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); The Maltese Falcon (1941); Another Thin Man (1939); Have You Got Any Castles? (1938); Secret Agent X-9 (1937); After the Thin Man (1936); Satan Met a Lady (1936); The Glass Key (1935); Mister Dynamite (1935); Woman in the Dark (1934); The Thin Man (1934); The Maltese Falcon (1931); City Streets (1931); Roadhouse Nights (1930).

Born on this day – Lee Garmes:

 

Lee Garmes

Cinematographer

May 27, 1898 – August 31, 1978

Born on this day – Jacqueline Delubac:

 

Jacqueline Delubac

Actress

May 27, 1907 – October 14, 1997

Born on this day – Frank Nugent:

 

Frank Nugent

Writer

May 27, 1908 – December 29, 1965

Born on this day – Linden Travers:

Linden Travers

Actress

May 27, 1913 – October 23, 2001

Born on this day – Herman Wouk:

 

Herman Wouk

Writer

May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019

Credits:
 
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952, for The Caine Mutiny.
 
Books:
 

A Hole in Texas (2004); Agnon in Jerusalem (1998); Aurora Dawn (1947); Don't Stop the Carnival (1965); Inside, Outside (1985); Marjorie Morningstar (1955); Modern Primitive (1951); Natures Way (1958); Rough Water (1998); Sailor and Fiddler (2016); Slattery's Hurricane (1956); The Ballad of Wake Island (1941); The Caine Mutiny (1951); The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1953); The City Boy (1951); The Glory (1994); The Hope (1993); The Language God Talks (2010); The Lawgiver (2012); The Lomokome Papers (1968); The Man in the Trench Coat (1941); The Traitor (1949); The Will to Live on (2000); The Winds of War (1971); This Is My God (1959); War and Remembrance (1978); Winds of War / War and Remembrance (1985); Youngblood Hawke (1962).

 

Movies and television:
 

60 Minutes / Segment: Jimmy Buffett (1997); Au théâtre ce soir (1973); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1958); Confidentially Connie (1953); Der Verräter (1956 / 1959); Die Caine war ihr Schicksal (1959); Estudio 1 (1974); Ford Star Jubilee (1955); Her First Romance (1951); Marjorie Morningstar (1958); Master of Dark Shadows (2019); Meuterei auf der Caine (1954); Muiterij op de Caine (1957 / 1968); Myteriet på Caine (1960); Mytteriet på Caine (1964); Ouragan sur le Caine (1967); Remembering 2019: In Memoriam (2019); Slattery's Hurricane (1949); The Caine Mutiny (1954); The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (1959 / 1988 / 2023); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950); The Winds of War (1983); The Winds of War: Making 'The Winds of War' (2004); War and Remembrance / TV Mini Series (1988–1989); What's My Line? (1955–1956); Youngblood Hawke (1964).