Dead Man18

Directed by Jim Jarmusch | USA | 1995 | 2h | Starring Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Henriksen, Alfred Molina

Accountant William Blake has hardly arrived in a godforsaken outpost of the American West before he’s caught in a fatal lovers’ quarrel. Wounded and on the run, he falls under the watch of an outcast named Nobody, who guides him on a spiritual odyssey. Jim Jarmusch imagines the nineteenth-century American West as an existential wasteland, reckoning with industrialisation, America’s legacy of violence, and the natural cycle of life and death. 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 take on the western genre.

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Reviews

‘Jim Jarmusch’s most stunning achievement.’
★★★★★
|Zach Campbell, Slant Magazine

‘A quantum leap by American independent Jim Jarmusch–a hypnotic and beautiful black-and-white western.’
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

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Dead Man 18
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William Blake barely arrives in the lawless American West before violence forces him into hiding, guided by an outcast named Nobody on a spiritual odyssey. Jim Jarmusch's existential western features a stacked cast of collaborators and a live-wire Neil Young score.

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The Odyssey 15
2h 52m
Odysseus, King of Ithaca, journeys home after the Trojan War, confronting vengeful gods and monstrous trials along the way. Christopher Nolan adapts Homer's epic, starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, alongside Tom Holland, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson.

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13:30

Daughters of the Dust 12A
1h 52m
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At the dawn of the 20th century, a Gullah family on South Carolina's Sea Islands faces a difficult choice between preserving their cultural heritage and embracing an uncertain future. Julie Dash's groundbreaking film is a visually stunning, deeply moving landmark of American cinema.

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The Odyssey 15
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2h 52m
Odysseus, King of Ithaca, journeys home after the Trojan War, confronting vengeful gods and monstrous trials along the way. Christopher Nolan adapts Homer's epic, starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, alongside Tom Holland, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson.

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The Summer Book PG
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Eight-year-old Sophia spends the summer with her father and grandmother on their family island in Finland's Gulf, all three grieving her mother's recent death. Directed by Charlie McDowell and starring Glenn Close, this quiet drama adapts Tove Jansson's novel.

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