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Paris, Texas / Road Movies Produktion, Berlin and Argos Films, Paris ; present a German/French co-production ; a film by Wim Wenders ; written by Sam Shepard ; adapted by L.M. Kit Carson ; produced by Don Guest ; directed by Wim Wenders.
LIBRA DVD 009 920 discs 1-2 + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 501.
- The Criterion Collection ; 501
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017--Film adaptations.
- Shepard, Sam.
- Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017.
- Dysfunctional families--United States--Drama.
- Dysfunctional families.
- Mute persons--Drama.
- Mute persons.
- Social conditions.
- Texas--Social conditions--Drama.
- Texas.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions--Drama.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- United States.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Road films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Motion pictures, German.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Director-approved special edition ; widescreen.
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2009]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, region 1; Dobly digital surround.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- After four years' absence, a social dropout reappears in L.A. to claim his abandoned son and then heads to Texas to reunite the boy with his mother.
- Contents:
- disc 1. Feature film
- Disc 2. Bonus features.
- Participant:
- Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clement, Hunter Carson
- Credits:
- Music, Ry Cooder ; editor, Peter Przygoda ; director of photography, Robby Muller.
- Notes:
- Aspect ratio 1.78:1.
- Based on the book "Paris, Texas" by Sam Shepard.
- DVD release of the 1984 motion picture.
- Bonus features: audio commentary featuring Wenders; interview with Wenders by German journalist Roger Willemsen; excerpts from th 1990 film "Motion and Emotion" featuring interviews with Wenders, Robby Müller (cinematographer), Ry Cooder (composer), Harry Dean Stanton, Dennis Hopper, Peter Falk, Hanns Zischler, novelist Patricia Highsmith and director Samuel Fuller; New interviews with filmmakers Allison Anders and Claire Denis; "Cinéma cinémas: Wim Wenders Hollywood April '84" with Wenders and Coder working on the score; deleted scenes and Super 8 home movies; Gallery of Wenders' location-scouting photos from his books Written in the West; Behind the scenes photos by Robin Holland; theatrical trailer.
- Booklet includes essay by films critic Nick Roddick and interviews with Stanton, Sam Shepard, Nastassja Kinski and Dean Stockwell.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1604652284
- 9781604652284
- OCLC:
- 472353204
- Publisher Number:
- 715515052214
- CC1860D Criterion Collection
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