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Paris, Texas [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Wim Wenders.

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The Criterion Collection, c2009.

Fathers and sons -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 501.

Video Difference legacy collection.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Director-approved special ed.

2 videodiscs (145 min.) : Dolby digital Surround sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet (42 p. ; col. ill. ; 19 cm.)

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1984.

Bonus features: Disc 1. Audio commentary featuring Wim Wenders ; Disc 2. "Wim Wenders" interview with Wenders by German journalist Roger Willemsen ; "The road to Paris, Texas" excerpts from th 1990 film "Motion and Emotion" featuring interviews with Wim Wenders, Robby Müller, Ry Cooder, Harry Dean Stanton, Peter Falk, Dennis Hopper, Hanns Zischler, Samuel Fuller, Patricia Highsmith and Kraft Wetzel conducted by director Paul Joyce ; "Claire Denis and Allison Anders" interviewed by Kent Jones ; "Cinéma cinémas" segment from the French television program featuring 'Wim Wenders Hollywood April '84' ; deleted scenes ; Super 8 footage ; galleries ; "Written in the West" gallery of Wenders' location-scouting photos from his book ; behind the scenes photos by Robin Holland ; plus, a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Nick Roddick, interviews with Stanton, writer Sam Shepard, and actors Nastassja Kinski and Dean Stockwell, and excerpts from Wenders’s book of photos Written in the West.

1.78:1 aspect ratio.

A West Germany/France/UK/USA co-production.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Disc 1. Feature film -- Disc 2. Bonus features.

Road Movies Produktion, Berlin and Argos Films, Paris present a German/French co-production ; a film by Wim Wenders ; music, Ry Cooder ; cinematography by Robby Müller ; adaptation by L.M. Kit Carson ; written by Sam Shepard ; produced by Don Guest ; directed by Wim Wenders.

Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément and Hunter Carson.

"New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard. Paris, Texas follows the mysterious, nearly mute drifter Travis (a magnificent Harry Dean Stanton, whose face is a landscape all its own) as he tries to reconnect with his young son, living with his brother (Dean Stockwell) in Los Angeles, and his missing wife (Nastassja Kinski). From this simple setup, Wenders and Shepard produce a powerful statement on codes of masculinity and the myth of the American family, as well as an exquisite visual exploration of a vast, crumbling world of canyons and neon."--Container.

Palm D'Or, Cannes Film Festival.

BAFTA: Best Direction (Wim Wenders), 1984.

Surrealist films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017

Stanton, Harry Dean, 1926-2017.

Kinski, Nastassja, 1960-

Stockwell, Dean, 1938-

Clément, Aurore, 1945-

Carson, Hunter, 1975-

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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