“If you are looking to take a road trip to the shooting locations of Paris, Texas, you will be making pitstops at a lot of Texas towns like Galveston and El Paso, but not the actual city of Paris, Texas itself. Although named after the tiny Texan city, the true location of Paris is actually a quaint little town on Highway-82, 90 miles northeast of Dallas and has a 45-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower paying homage to its French counterpart. However, the now-iconic feature film never actually shows its namesake or shoots in it. German director and film pioneer Wim Wenders’ avant-garde art house western swept the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984 with its visual enticement, subtle poetic emotional unveiling and existential solitude. The screenplay by Pulitzer Prize-winner Sam Shepard opens with Travis, a character famously played by the great Harry Dean Stanton, stumbling into the desert with no preamble and soon embarks on a road trip across the desolate albeit hauntingly picturesque landscape of west Texas. ...”
2010 April: New German Cinema, 2010 November: The American Friend (1977), 2012 March: Paris, Texas (1984), 2015 October: Places, Strange and Quiet
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