Fuuuck! This bluray has been cut down to 16:9?
Well, that’s weird, but it’s not 16:9 in any case.
Boo!
Criterion! What the actual fuck!
Greatest actor ever.
Oh yeah… he wrote a number of things around this time that were all pretty spiffy, if I remember correctly? Or I might be.
I was pretty sure that I saw this at the time, but nothing here seems familiar… weird…
Heh heh. So meta.
Look at those colours. That lighting.
Just look at this.
This movie made a million European film nerds want to visit Texas.
Everything here looks just amazing — you can almost see the nine assistants standing just off camera with reflectors and stuff just to get this perfect light for this tiny shot. No modern movie looks like, what with the desaturation and digital cameras and GET OFF MY LAWN
Claire Denis worked on this, and I wonder how much input she had. Because some of these shots look quite Denis-ey.
I hope the Texas Tourist Board chipped in.
Bizarre.
Only Europeans make the US look this good.
That’s John Lurie!!!
That’s Nastassja Kinski!!!
Oh my god. Movies were so much prettier before digital colour grading.
This is such a gorgeous movie. And it’s kinda perfect until the final bits? But when we get to the monologue in the booth, it starts to feel as it’s flailing a bit?
But still. It’s a great movie.
Paris, Texas. Wim Wenders. 1984. ⚅
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