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Paris, Texas (1984)
MOMA Retrospective - Wim Wenders
The Museum of Modern Art celebrates Wim Wenders (b. 1945), one of postwar Germany’s most accomplished and influential filmmakers, with a major career retrospective. This exhibition represents a collaboration with the Berlin International Film Festival, which dedicates its 2015 Homage to Wenders, presenting him with an Honorary Golden Bear award for lifetime achievement; and with Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum for Film und Fernsehen.
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I used to make long speeches to you after you left. I used to talk to you all the time, even though I was alone. I walked around for months talking to you. Now I don’t know what to say. It was easier when I just imagined you.
Paris, Texas (1984)
Spend a ‘Weekend at the Beach’ With Jean-Luc Godard and Wim Wenders
If you’ve ever wondered what your heroes’ preferred beachwear looks like, this is certainly the video for you. Hell, if you’ve ever wondered just what it looks like when Jean-Luc Godard, Heiner Müller, Wim Wenders and a handful of other notable creative geniuses get together for a relaxing weekend in the sun, this is just the best thing ever.
Looking Back on Our Favorite Palme d’Or Winners of Years Past
And what makes the film so emotionally and cinematically rich is the juxtaposition between Shepard and Wenders—the German with a fantastical pastiche obsession with Americana and the rough-tongued “rock and roll Jesus with a cowboy mouth” himself, whose words are engrained in the sprawling western landscape. The two have collaborated many times since, but this holds as by far their best work—creating something that speaks to the human condition so effortlessly in a way that few films have been able to. No one does melancholic American isolation like a misanthropic German.
Nastassja Kinski - Paris,Texas 1984 by Wim Wenders
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“When you travel a lot, and when you love to just wander around and get lost, you can end up in the strangest spots. […] I don’t know, it must be some sort of built-in radar that often directs me to places that are strangely quiet, or quietly strange.”
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