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Paris, Texas

film by Wenders [1984]

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contribution by Cooder

In Ry Cooder
…greatest impact in Wim Wenders’s Paris, Texas (1984), the vast panoramas of which provided the perfect visual counterpoint to Cooder’s moody, reverberating slide guitar.
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In Wim Wenders
…1984 with the release of Paris, Texas, which was cowritten by Sam Shepard. The lyrical drama about a man in the American Southwest who is physically and spiritually lost won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival. Three years later Wenders received the best-director award at Cannes for the…
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