In the The Sight and Sound Top Ten Poll 2002, Jarmusch was asked to compile a list of the ten best films of all time. He turned in this list ("not necessarily in this order"):
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray)
Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Sunrise (F W Murnau)
The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick)
Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
Broken Blossoms (D W Griffith)
Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
The results from the poll can be found here.
In the poll, Dead Man received one vote (by critic Daniil Dondurei), as did Stranger than Paradise (by filmmaker Roy Andersson).