![movieposteroftheday:
French affiche for PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders, West Germany/USA, 1984)
Artist: Guy Peellaert (1934-2008) [see also]
Poster source: MoviePosterDB
PARIS, TEXAS unanimously won the Palme d’Or in 1984 and swept all three juried awards, including the FIPRESCI and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/bd02d007999ac6eadd3caf6bfa30c179/tumblr_mn4lwxim6G1r6ivyno1_500.jpg)
French affiche for PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders, West Germany/USA, 1984)
Artist: Guy Peellaert (1934-2008) [see also]
Poster source: MoviePosterDB
PARIS, TEXAS unanimously won the Palme d’Or in 1984 and swept all three juried awards, including the FIPRESCI and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.
“It was extremely realistic - not Jurassic Park realistic, but still.”
- My dad, recommending the movie Primer to me over voicemail
Speedboat by Renata Adler, Random House, 1976.
Trinity by Leon Uris, Doubleday, 1976.
Indignation by Philip Roth, Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
If this isn’t one of the saddest pop songs ever recorded then I just don’t know what. The almost shockingly chintzy music video - with Björn and Benny staring emotionlessly past the conspicuously tired, worn-down Agnetha and Anni-Frid - seems appropriate for a song about divorce and the sad inevitable grind of adulthood and adult relations as sung by a wronged woman. We’re a long way from the bouncy exuberance of “Waterloo” but there’s still something close to transcendence in those soaring eagle-cry vocals in the chorus, a sadder and more kind of measured kind of transcendence but transcendence nonetheless.
You are what you are
and you ain't what you ain't.
