We Love This Iggy Pop Western and So Should You - Pop Screen 165: Dead Man (1995)

It's one of the great films of the '90s, from one of the most Pop Screen-friendly directors of all time: Jim Jarmusch, a man who can't even make a little family drama without sticking Tom Waits in there. Here, he's making a Western starring Johnny Depp, Robert Mitchum, a lot of people who would go on to be very famous, and the former lead singer of the Stooges. In a dress and bonnet.

It's so good that we've redone the show's theme music in its honour this week. Join Graham and Rob as they discuss the light the film sheds on the Western genre, its place as the first of Jarmusch's offbeat genre exercises, and the film's other hidden punk rock cameo that will blow you away. Plus: the pre-wearing-wacky-hats-for-Disney-money years of Depp's career, Iggy Pop's advice to young musicians and more!

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