Paris texas

In memory of playwright and screenwriter Sam Shepard, we look at the award-winning, Wim Wenders-directed cult movie that Shepard wrote the screenplay for

"Paris, Texas" movie still, 1984. Harry Dean Stanton as Travis Henderson.

New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard. Paris, Texas follows the mysterious, nearly mute drifter Travis (a magnificent Harry Dean Stanton, whose face is a landscape all its own) as he tries to reconnect with his young son, living with his brother (Dean Stockwell) in Los Angeles, and his missing wife (Nastassja Kinski). From…