Dead Man The Big Sky

The wild West! See Johnny Depp get lost in the wilderness of Jarmusch's Dead Man, and then marvel at Howard Hawks's aptly titled The Big Sky, where landscapes take on a power of their own.

Rosenbaum has called Dead Man "the fulfillment of a cherished counterculture dream, the acid western." A visually haunting period piece set in the late 19th century, it stars Johnny Depp as a mild-mannered accountant who flees to the frontier after a false murder accusation. (1995; 120 mins.)

Kirk Douglas stars in The Big Sky, an action-packed adaptation of A. B. Guthrie's novel about an expedition up the untamed Missouri River. (1952; 122 mins.)