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Paris, Texas (1984) is a movie directed by Wim Wenders and is probably his most well-known and critically acclaimed work (in the English speaking world, at least). Sam Shepard wrote the screenplay; the distinctive musical score was composed by Ry Cooder; cinematography was by Robby Muller. Image File history File links Paris_Texas. ...
Wilhelm Ernst (Wim) Wenders (born August 14, 1945) is a German-born film director, author and producer. ...
Anatole Dauman is a French film producer who has produced films by Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Wim Wenders, Nagisa Oshima, Andrei Tarkovsky, Volker Schlöndorff and Alain Resnais. ...
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Harry Dean Stanton (born July 14, 1926 in West Irvine, Kentucky, USA) is an American actor. ...
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Ryland Ry Cooder (March 15, 1947—) is a guitarist especially well known for his slide guitar work. ...
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1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Palais des Festivals (2000) The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival international du film de Cannes or simply le Festival de Cannes) is a film festival held in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France. ...
1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Wilhelm Ernst (Wim) Wenders (born August 14, 1945) is a German-born film director, author and producer. ...
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Ryland Ry Cooder (March 15, 1947—) is a guitarist especially well known for his slide guitar work. ...
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The film stars Harry Dean Stanton as Travis, an amnesiac who has been lost for four years and is taken in by his brother (played by Dean Stockwell). He later tries to put his life back together and understand what happened between him and his wife Jane (Nastassja Kinski) and son Hunter (Hunter Carson). Harry Dean Stanton (born July 14, 1926 in West Irvine, Kentucky, USA) is an American actor. ...
Amnesia (or amnaesia in Commonwealth English) is a condition in which memory is disturbed. ...
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Nastassja Kinski on the cover of Playboy, May 1983. ...
The film is named after the Texan town of Paris, although no footage is shot there. Paris, Texas is notable for stunning cinematography of the Texan landscape. The first shot is a bird's eye-view of the desert, a bleak, dry, alien landscape. A hawk lands on a boulder. A man walking alone in the desert stops and looks. He is wearing a cheap Mexican suit, a red baseball cap and has several days of stubble, his ankles are bandaged. He staggers, lost and alone. His clothes are covered in dust and damp with sweat. The scenery swims by - old advertisement billboards, placards, graffitis, rusty iron carcasses, old railway lines, neon signs, motels, roads seemingly never-ending, LA, finally culminating with some famous scenes shot outside a drive-through bank in down-town Houston. The cinematography is typical of Robby Muller's work, a long-time collaborator of Wim Wenders. Official language(s) None. ...
Paris is a city located 98 miles (158 km) northeast of Dallas in Lamar County, Texas situated in East Texas, specifically Northeast Texas, at the western edge of the Piney Woods. ...
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Wilhelm Ernst (Wim) Wenders (born August 14, 1945) is a German-born film director, author and producer. ...
A central theme is social alienation, particularly in an American context. The Texan scenery, both the vastness of the landscape on the road, and the architecture in the then booming Houston stimulates this atmosphere. The haunting slide-guitar sound-track by Ry Cooder, based on Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground," echoes the scenery and the mood. For the mostly European audience, this film set a cultural reference point in many people's subconscious of what America should look and feel like. Blind Willie Johnson Blind Willie Johnson (c. ...
The film has a critical and cult following and it won the 1984 Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival. The Palme dOr (Golden Palm) is the name of the highest prize given to a film at the Cannes Film Festival. ...
The Palais des Festivals (2000) The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival international du film de Cannes or simply le Festival de Cannes) is a film festival held in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France. ...
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Two modern Scottish pop-rock groups have derived their names from Paris, Texas: Texas and Travis. Sharleen Spiteri on the album cover for Red Book Texas is a pop music band from Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. ...
Travis are a British alternative rock band from Scotland, named after the main character in the movie Paris, Texas, directed by Wim Wenders. ...
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