1984

Director:
Wim Wenders

Screenplay:
Sam Shepard

Director of Photography:
Robby Müller

Editor:
Peter Przygodda

Music:
Ry Cooder

Cast:
Harry Dean Stanton Nastassja Kinski
Dean Stockwell
Aurore Clement
Hunter Carson

Production Design:
Kate Altman

Producers:
Chris Sievernich Wim Wenders

Production:
Road Movies Filmproduktion/Berlin Argos Films/Paris

Festivals/Awards:
1984 Cannes, Golden Palm (Best Film)
1984 British Academy Award
1984 French Film Critic's Prize
1984 German Film Prize in Silver (Production)


Length:
148 min.

Format:
35mm Color

Original Language: English

Paris, Texas is probably Wim Wenders' most well known, critically acclaimed, and successful movie, winning a number of international prizes including the Cannes Palme D'Or for Best Film in 1984.

This unusual road movie, with screenplay by acclaimed playwright Sam Shepard, tells the tale of Travis, a man lost in his own private hell. Presumed dead for four years, he reappears from the desert on the Mexico border, world-weary and an amnesiac.
He traces his brother Walt who is bringing up Hunter, his seven-year-old son, his ex-wife Jane having abandoned him at Walt's door several years before.

As virtual strangers, Hunter and Travis begin to build a wary friendship and conspire to find Jane and bring her back to be a real family.

With extraordinary performances from Harry Dean Stanton as Travis and Natassja Kinski as Jane, the film also boasts a soundtrack by Ry Cooder, ideally suited to the film's sun-bleached landscapes and melancholy undertones.

(1) DESERT LANDSCAPE    EXTERIOR, DAY

A fissured, empty, almost lunar landscape- seen from a bird's-eye view. The camera hovers over it. In the distance, a lone man appears; he is crossing this desert.

A hawk lands on a boulder.
The man stops, looks at the bird.
Then he drinks the last drops of water from a large plastic bottle. He is wearing a cheap Mexican suit, a red baseball cap
and sandals with bandages wrapped around them. His clothes are covered with dust and soaked with sweat. He has been walking for a long time.

This is Travis.

Travis throws away the empty plastic bottle,and continues on his way across the bleak, hot plains that lie before him.

(2) A LONELY GAS STATION EXTERIOR, DAY

Travis comes up to a gas station on a remote country road. He.................