"Paris, Texas" is one of those special films that can't be recreated or imitated. It is a very American film, but has the touches of a foreign filmmaker that can only result in originality. This is a very slow film, but maybe the most interesting slow film of the past 30 years. The film follows Harry Dean Stanton, a drifter who is wandering the desert and lost in life. Eventually a family member finds him and the pieces of his troubled past or unraveled in a poetic and sad way that any sort of synopsis could not describe."Paris, Texas" will forever be on many greatest films of all time list and it is deservingly so. It is extremely acclaimed, but for some reason has never seemed to make it past the cult following. Why this film didn't win, let alone be nominated for best picture in 1984 is beyond me. Roger Ebert once said something along the lines of any film starring Harry Dean Stanton is interesting, because if he is on the screen it is worth watching. I have to agree, he is one of the great character actors of our generation you may not know, but can recognize from many films. He has been involved in a lot of great movies such as "Alien", "Escape From New York", "Wild At Heart", but he was never the focus. I am glad he is the focus of this film and he puts together the performance of a lifetime. This is the kind of movie you must see before you die.
*4 Lance Approvals*
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