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WD_373/ 2007
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Works on paper: Drawings 4 | | Medium: | oilstick on paper | | Size (inches): | 31.1 x 21.4 | | Size (mm): | 790 x 544 | | Catalog #: | WD_0373 | | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
Paris, where?
Paris, France
Paris (second-order administrative division), Île-de-France, France
Paris, Ontario, Canada (closest location: Brantford, CAN)
Paris, Illinois
Paris, Kentucky
Paris, Ohio
Paris, Tennessee
Paris, Texas
Paris, Idaho
Paris, Gabon (closest location: Lambaréné, GAB)
Paris, Yukon Territory, Canada (closest location: Dawson, CAN)
Paris, Arkansas
Paris, Los Angeles, California, United States (closest location: Acton, CA)
Paris, Jennings, Indiana, United States (closest location: Paris Crossing, IN)
Paris, Davis, Iowa, United States (closest location: West Grove, IA)
-weather.msn.com/search.aspx?weasearchstr=paris
Paris, Texas (film) -
Directed by Wim Wenders
Produced by Chris Sievernich, Don Guest, Pascale Dauman, Anatole Dauman
Written by L.M. Kit Carson, Sam Shepard
Starring Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Hunter Carson
Music by Ry Cooder
Cinematography Robby Müller
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) Flag of France 19 May 1984 (Cannes premiere)
Running time 147 min.
Language English
Paris, Texas is a 1984 film directed by Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by L.M. Kit Carson and Sam Shepard, and the distinctive musical score was composed by Ry Cooder. The cinematography is by Robby Muller.
The film stars Harry Dean Stanton as Travis, an amnesiac who has been lost for four years and is taken in by his brother (played by Dean Stockwell). He later tries to put his life back together and understand what happened between him, his wife Jane (Nastassja Kinski), and his son Hunter (Hunter Carson).
The film was a co-production between companies in France and West Germany, but was filmed in the United States.
Title:
The film is named after the Texas town of Paris, but no footage was shot there. Instead, Paris is referred to as the location of a vacant lot owned by Travis that is seen in a photograph.
The photograph shows a desert landscape, but in fact the real Paris rests on the edge of the forests of East Texas, far from any desert.
Style:
Paris, Texas is notable for its stunning images of the Texan landscape. The first shot is a bird's eye-view of the desert, a bleak, dry, alien landscape. A hawk lands on a boulder. A man walking alone in the desert stops and looks. He is wearing a cheap Mexican suit, a red baseball cap, has several days of stubble, and his ankles are bandaged. He staggers, lost and alone. His clothes are covered in dust and damp with sweat. Shots follow of old advertisement billboards, placards, graffiti, rusty iron carcasses, old railway lines, neon signs, motels, seemingly never-ending roads, and Los Angeles, finally culminating in some famous scenes shot outside a drive-through bank in down-town Houston. The cinematography is typical of Robby Muller's work, a long-time collaborator of Wim Wenders.
The film is accompanied by a haunting slide-guitar score by Ry Cooder, based on Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground."
Themes:
A central theme in the film is social alienation in America.[citation needed] The Texan scenery (both the vastness of the landscape on the road and the architecture in the then booming Houston) reflects this theme. Another recurring theme is parents who use their child as a pretext to be able to stay with their partner.
Responses:
The film won the 1984 Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival.
-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Texas_(film)
About City of Paris,Texas -
Located in the Heart of Red River Valley, Paris was founded in 1839 and became the Lamar County seat in 1844. Paris became incorporated in 1845 and has grown to play a major role in Texas economy within Northeast Texas.
Paris received recognition in 1998 for being named "Best Small Town in Texas" by Kevin Heubusch in his book "The New Rating Guide to Life in America's Small Cities."
Paris is home to numerous beautiful parks to include Bywaters Park, Wade Park, Record Park and Lake Gibbons. Rich in culture and recreation, Paris is also home to Lake Crook and Sam Bell Maxey State Historic Structure and the renowned 'Tour de Paris' bike race held every summer. The Paris Municipal Band, formed in 1923, is the oldest municipal band in Texas. Summer concerts are located in the historic district at Bywaters Park, across from the Paris Public Library.
Paris, Texas is home to the "Second Largest Eiffel Tower in the Second Largest Paris" located at the corner of Jefferson Road and South Collegiate Drive, adjacent to Love Civic Center.
-www.ci.paris.tx.us/city_website_2000/
aboutparis/AboutParis.htm
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