Quick -- what's the best film ever shot in my hometown of Houston, Texas? Sorry Terms Of Endearment fans, it's Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas. In fairness, however, it's one of the best films shot largely in Texas as it also features locations in deep West Texas.
Wenders recently received a stellar Criterion treatment for his other masterpiece Wings Of Desire, and now Paris, Texas arrives in the Collection with a similarly definitive DVD and Blu-ray treatment.
Criterion's Current blog has an excerpt from the book The Logic of Images where, for the record, Wenders declares: "Houston is one of my favorite cities in America."
Which probably makes him the first German film director to ever utter those words.
Rave reviews for Criterion's Paris, Texas below:
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