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Paris, Texas

Criterion / Year: 1984

DVD Widescreen More Info Region Code: 1 UPC: 715515052214 Catalog #: DL1141303 Languages: English (Primary)	Usually ships in 5-10 days	$35.99 (10% off) List Price: $39.99
Blu-ray More Info Region Code: 1 Catalog #: DB1141304 Languages: English (Primary)	Usually ships in 5-10 days	$35.99 (10% off) List Price: $39.99

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Synopsis

German New Wave 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 efforts of the mysterious, nearly mute drifter Travis (a magnificent Harry Dean Stanton, whose face is a landscape of its own) 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.

3 Reasons To buy this film

This is a new, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Wim Wenders, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition.
Criterion has packed this DVD with special features both old and new.
Next to Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas is, arguably, Wim Wenders' greatest piece of work.

Review

Wenders' understated exploration of human loneliness and vulnerability features Stanton as a near-catatonic wanderer who is somewhat snapped out of his stupor by his brother (Stockwell). Upon reuniting with his young son, he and the boy set off in search of their long-lost wife and mother, Kinski. Sam Shepard's screenplay and Robby Müller's camera keenly map out the desert of the human soul as set against the bleak Texas landscape; Ry Cooder's haunting slide guitar finishes off the effect.

Product Format Information

DVD Widescreen: $35.99

Availability: Usually ships in
5-10 days
Region Code: 1
UPC: 715515052214
Catalog #: DL1141303

Studio : Criterion

Languages: English (Primary)
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen, 1.66
Extras: Trailers, Deleted Scenes
Features:
Restored high-definition digital transfer
Audio commentary: by director Wim Wenders
Interview(s): with Wenders by German journalist Roger Willemsen
Documentaries: Excerpts from the 1990 film Motion and Emotion: The Road to Paris, Texas, featuring interviews with Wenders, actors Harry Dean Stanton, Hanns Zischler, Dennis Hopper, and Peter Falk, composer Ry Cooder, cinematographer Robby Müller, novelist Patricia Highsmith, and filmmaker Samuel Fuller
Interview(s): with filmmakers Allison Anders and Claire Denis
Documentaries: Cinéma cinémas: Wim Wenders Hollywood April ’84, with Wenders and composer Ry Cooder
Super 8 home movies
Photo gallery: Wenders' location-scouting photos, from his book Written in the West
Photo gallery: Behind-the-scenes photos by Robin Holland
Booklet: featuring an essay by film critic Nick Roddick and interviews with Stanton, writer Sam Shepard, and actors Nastassja Kinski and Dean Stockwell
Original theatrical trailer

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Blu-ray : $35.99

Availability: Usually ships in
5-10 days
Region Code: 1
Catalog #: DB1141304

Studio : Criterion

Languages: English DTS-HD 5.1 (Primary)
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen, 1.66
Extras: Trailers, Deleted Scenes
Features:
Restored high-definition digital transfer
Audio commentary: featuring Wim Wenders
Interview(s): with Wenders by German journalist Roger Willemsen
Documentaries: Excerpts from the 1990 film Motion and Emotion: The Road to Paris, Texas, featuring interviews with Wenders, actors Harry Dean Stanton, Hanns Zischler, Dennis Hopper, and Peter Falk, composer Ry Cooder, cinematographer Robby Müller, novelist Patricia Highsmith, and filmmaker Samuel Fuller
Interview(s): with filmmakers Allison Anders and Claire Denis
Documentaries: Cinéma cinémas: Wim Wenders Hollywood April ’84, with Wenders and composer Ry Cooder
Super 8 home movies
Photo gallery: Wim Wenders’s location-scouting photos, from his book Written in the West
Photo gallery: Behind-the-scenes photos by Robin Holland
Booklet: Featuring an essay by film critic Nick Roddick and interviews with Stanton, writer Sam Shepard, and actors Nastassja Kinski and Dean Stockwell
Original theatrical trailer