The Untamed Territory of Jim Jarmusch’s “Dead Man”

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Scout Tafoya is a filmmaker, critic and video essayist from Doylestown, PA. He is the creator of the long running series The Unloved at RogerEbert.com, and is a regular contributor to The Los Angeles Review of Books, Consequence of Sound, and Nylon Magazine.

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The Untamed Territory of Jim Jarmusch’s “Dead Man”

Jim Jarmusch's black and white punk Western is both his most beautiful & most baffling film.

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