A man walks out of the Mojave Desert to reclaim a relationship with his son, Hunter, and the wife he abandoned.The fact that his son has been brought up by his childless brother and his wife only adds to the emotional drama. Such is the basic outline of Wim Wenders ‘Paris, Texas.’ This is my fifth viewing of the film since I first watched it in 1985. At that time, I was slightly underwhelmed,…

The recent demise of Harry Dean Stanton got me thinking about one of my favorite films, Paris Texas. It of course stars Stanton as a man who re-emerges from the desert like a latter-day Jesus and then slowly starts to connect with his family. His brother, his son and finally, the mother of his child are part of a slow, painful but beautiful rediscovery for Stanton’s character. All this is…