apart from the movies with wenders, müller contributed to both mainstream us productions and independent films. his other work included the hazy, yellow-tinted cinematography of william friedkin's "to live and die in la" (1985), sally potter's "the tango lesson" (1997), dom rotheroe's "my brother tom" (2001), lars von trier's starkly shot films "breaking the waves" (1996) and "dancer in the dark" (2000), and jim jarmusch's gritty-looking films "down by law" (1986), "mystery train" (1989), "dead man" (1995) and "" (1999).