Editing Jim Jarmusch (section)

=== 1990s ===
[[File:Johnny Depp Jim Jarmusch Cannes 1995.jpg|thumb|right|[[Johnny Depp]] (left) with Jarmusch at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] in 1995]]
In 1995, Jarmusch released ''[[Dead Man]]'', a period film set in the 19th century American West starring [[Johnny Depp]] and [[Gary Farmer]]. Produced at a cost of almost $9&nbsp;million with a high-profile cast including [[John Hurt]], [[Gabriel Byrne]] and, in his final role, [[Robert Mitchum]],<ref name=susman/> the film marked a significant departure for the director from his previous features.<ref name=yabroff/> Earnest in tone in comparison to its self-consciously hip and ironic predecessors, ''Dead Man'' was thematically expansive and of an often violent and progressively more surreal character.<ref name=allmovie/><ref name=yabroff/> The film was shot in black and white by Robby Müller, and features a score composed and performed by [[Neil Young]], for whom Jarmusch subsequently filmed the tour documentary ''[[Year of the Horse]]'', released to tepid reviews in 1997.
Though ill-received by mainstream American reviewers, ''Dead Man'' found much favor internationally and among critics, many of whom lauded it as a visionary masterpiece.<ref name=allmovie/> It has been hailed as one of the few films made by a Caucasian that presents an authentic Native American culture and character, and Jarmusch stands by it as such, though it has attracted both praise and castigation for its portrayal of the American West, violence, and especially Native Americans.<ref name=revisionism/>

Following artistic success and critical acclaim in the American independent film community, he achieved mainstream recognition with his far-East philosophical crime film ''[[Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai]]'' (1999), shot in Jersey City and starring [[Forest Whitaker]] as a young inner-city man who has found purpose for his life by unyieldingly conforming it to the ''[[Hagakure]]'', an 18th-century philosophy text and training manual for samurai, becoming, as directed, a terrifyingly deadly hit-man for a local mob boss to whom he may owe a debt, and who then betrays him. The soundtrack was supplied by [[RZA]] of the Wu-Tang Clan, which blends into the director's "aesthetics of sampling".<ref>Gonzalez, "[http://volume.revues.org/1973 Jim Jarmusch's Aesthetics of Sampling in Ghost Dog–The Way of the Samurai]", 2004.</ref> The film was unique among other things for the number of books important to and discussed by its characters, most of them listed bibliographically as part of the end credits. The film is also considered to be a homage to ''[[Le Samourai]]'', a 1967 French New Wave film by auteur [[Jean-Pierre Melville]], which starred renowned French actor [[Alain Delon]] in a strikingly similar role and narrative.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}