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Dead Man is a 1995 American Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton, Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Michael Wincott, Lance Henriksen, and Robert Mitchum (in his final role). The film, dubbed a "Psychedelic Western" by its director, includes twisted elements of the Western genre. The film is shot entirely in black-and-white. Neil Young composed the guitar seeped soundtrack with portions he improvised while watching the movie footage. Some consider it the ultimate postmodern Western, and related to postmodern literature such as Cormac McCarthy's novel, Blood Meridian.
William Blake (Johnny Depp), an accountant from Cleveland, Ohio, rides by train to the frontier company town of Machine to assume a promised job as a bookkeeper in the town's Dickinson metal works. During the trip, a Fireman (Crispin Glover) warns Blake against the enterprise while passengers shoot buffalo from the train windows. Arriving in town, Blake discovers that his position has already been filled, and is driven from the workplace at gunpoint by John Dickinson (Robert Mitchum), the ferocious owner of the company. Jobless and without money or prospects, Blake meets Thel Russell (Mili Avital), a former prostitute who sells paper flowers. He lets her take him home. Thel's ex-boyfriend Charlie (Gabriel Byrne) surprises them in bed and shoots Blake, accidentally killing Thel when she tries to shield Blake with her body. A wounded Blake shoots and kills Charlie with Thel's gun before climbing dazedly out the window and fleeing Machine on a stolen pinto. Company-owner Dickinson, the father of Charlie, hires three legendary frontier killers, Cole Wilson (Lance Henriksen), Conway Twill (Michael Wincott), and Johnny "The Kid" Pickett (Eugene Byrd) to hunt down Blake as the murderer of his son and Thel, although he seems to care most about recovering the stolen horse.
Actors: Mike MacRae (miscellaneous crew), Tom Malloy (producer), Lesli Lytle (miscellaneous crew), Andrea Monier (actress), Nancy McCrumb (actress), Brittany Risner (miscellaneous crew), Andrei Konst (writer), Bobby Christian (actor), Dora Rosas (editor), Fulsad Shyrai (writer), Fulsad Shyrai (director), Fulsad Shyrai (producer), Rishi Chitkara (miscellaneous crew), David Gielan (composer), Michael Badawi (actor),
Genres: Drama, Music, Romance, Short,Actors: Jennifer Scott (actress), Jennifer Scott (producer), Adam Shalzi (actor), Scott Lynch-Giddings (actor), Adrian DiGiovanni (actor), Timothy Zwica (editor), Timothy Zwica (producer), Timothy Zwica (writer), Timothy Zwica (director), Timothy Zwica (producer), Jamie Newell (actress), Molly Bina (actress), Kevin Barry (actor),
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Short, Thriller,Actors: Ahmed Khalil (writer), Hanaa Saleh Alfassi (director), Hanaa Saleh Alfassi (writer), Zuahair Basrawi (composer), Shaimaa Laalioui (editor), Souhail Aboulhoul (actor), Summer Rambo (miscellaneous crew), Malika Frikouk (producer), Khallaf M. Khallaf (writer),
Plot: In one of the tomb chambers, a dead man is being buried under the ground and when they close the door on him , he suddenly comes to life and try to escape before the tomb's door is fully closed but now it's too late .. Is he going to surrender ?
Genres: Fantasy, Short,Actors: Matthew J. Wallner (producer), Matthew J. Wallner (actor), Matthew J. Wallner (director), Matthew J. Wallner (editor), Matthew J. Wallner (composer), Matthew J. Wallner (writer), Emily Gleason (actress), Brian M. Lambert (actor), Brian M. Lambert (writer), Benjamin Alff (actor), Kate Phillips (actress), Meghan Kay (producer), Kevin Tassini (actor), Keith Bandelin (writer), Sasha Aliener (actor),
Genres: Short, Thriller,Actors: Lance J. Holt (actor), Ari Joffe (miscellaneous crew), Kevin Flood (actor), Laura Dominguez (miscellaneous crew), Chet Baker (actor), J.P. Brennan (actor), Casey Couser (editor), Priscilla Cordoba (producer), Scott Casillas (actor), Rachel Parkin (costume designer), Cooper Madison (composer), Kris Mercer (miscellaneous crew), Mary Prosser (actress), Sandija Zarina (actress), David H. Parkin (writer),
Plot: The Naked City is a fictional mid-1930's story about Archer; a disillusioned male protagonist who struggles with his own self worth after his wife leaves him. As an ex-Detective, he is forced to take on petty private eye assignments. He investigates an 'artist' who photographs the crude aftermath of violent crimes, and exploits them by exhibiting this collection at a high society art gallery. Archer is forced to enter the gaudy world he despises and in the process, comes face to face with the source of his aggression.
Keywords: neo-noir, photographerActors: Glenn Conroy (actor), Martin Sage (editor), Gareth Edwards (director), Gareth Edwards (writer), Douglas Moxon (editor), Steven Gomez (actor), Deborah Cadbury (producer), David Riley (actor), Gavin Skinner (composer), Zoe Elliott (actress), Shirley Pereira (miscellaneous crew), Ruth Drewett (producer), Simon Winchcombe (producer), Yvonne Edwards (actress), Alun Taylor (actor),
Genres: Drama, Thriller,Actors: Taketoshi Naitô (actor), Kei Tani (actor), Susumu Terajima (actor), Kazuko Shirakawa (actress), Miyako Yamaguchi (actress), Takashi Naitô (actor), Kyôko Kagawa (actress), Sadao Abe (actor), Tôru Yuri (actor), Hirokazu Koreeda (director), Hirokazu Koreeda (editor), Tae Kimura (actress), Hirokazu Koreeda (writer), Reila Aphrodite (actress), Arata Iura (actor),
Plot: After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory to the staff who work with a crew to film it and screen it at week's end; eternity follows. 22 dead arrive that week, assigned to three counselors and a trainee. One old man cannot find a memory, so he watches videotape of his life. Others pick their memory quickly, and the film crew gets right to work. The trainee, 18-year-old Shiori, helps a teenage girl choose a memory other than Disneyland. The youthful staff have a secret and feelings, too, which play out, especially Shiori's affection for her mentor, Mochizuki
Keywords: adultery, afterlife, aging, airplane, american-soldier, baby, bamboo, banana, band, bathActors: Richard Driscoll (editor), Richard Driscoll (director), Richard Driscoll (producer), Richard Driscoll (writer), Vass Anderson (actor), Bob Flag (actor), Steve Munroe (actor), Simon Davies (actor), Gary Twomey (actor), Bernard Plant (actor), Kim Store (actress), Nicki Wheelen (miscellaneous crew), Joy Lale (actress), Nicki Wheelen (actress), Eddie Dudzik (actor),
Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi,Actors: Johnny Carpenter (actor), Conrad Brooks (actor), Edward D. Wood Jr. (producer), Bud Osborne (actor), Edward D. Wood Jr. (editor), Edward D. Wood Jr. (writer), Edward D. Wood Jr. (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Edward D. Wood Jr. (director), Tor Johnson (actor), Anthony Cardoza (actor), Anthony Cardoza (producer), Harvey B. Dunn (actor), Paul Marco (producer), Paul Marco (actor),
Plot: Follow-up to Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space" about the walking dead, It opens in a cemetery. Criswell, the "real" medium, rises from his coffin to tell us of "monsters to be despised." Dr. Acula (Kenne Duncan) is a phony medium aided by Valda Hansen, a bogus ghost, and big Tor Johnson, wearing rags and horrible scar makeup as Lobo. The doctor swindles people by pretending to contact dead relatives, but then accidentally succeeds in reviving a bunch of corpses that bury him alive! Sat unreleased for 23 years because Wood couldn't pay the lab bill! Followed by "Sinister Urge" in 1961 (Wood's last film).
Keywords: 1950s, based-on-novel, car-accident, cemetery, charlatan, coffin, con-artist, con-man, cult-film, detourActors: Johnny Carpenter (actor), Conrad Brooks (actor), Edward D. Wood Jr. (producer), Bud Osborne (actor), Edward D. Wood Jr. (editor), Edward D. Wood Jr. (writer), Edward D. Wood Jr. (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Edward D. Wood Jr. (director), Tor Johnson (actor), Anthony Cardoza (actor), Anthony Cardoza (producer), Harvey B. Dunn (actor), Paul Marco (producer), Paul Marco (actor),
Plot: Follow-up to Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space" about the walking dead, It opens in a cemetery. Criswell, the "real" medium, rises from his coffin to tell us of "monsters to be despised." Dr. Acula (Kenne Duncan) is a phony medium aided by Valda Hansen, a bogus ghost, and big Tor Johnson, wearing rags and horrible scar makeup as Lobo. The doctor swindles people by pretending to contact dead relatives, but then accidentally succeeds in reviving a bunch of corpses that bury him alive! Sat unreleased for 23 years because Wood couldn't pay the lab bill! Followed by "Sinister Urge" in 1961 (Wood's last film).
Keywords: 1950s, based-on-novel, car-accident, cemetery, charlatan, coffin, con-artist, con-man, cult-film, detour