Emotion Pictures

In these essays on the cinema, the author documents the obsessions leading to "Paris, Texas" and beyond. He discusses rock'n'roll in the movies, avant-garde film, questions of German identity and the passion for the American West and the Western. Wim Wenders is an internationally famous film director who directed "Paris, Texas" for which he won the "Palme d'Or" at Cannes; he also won the Cannes Best Director prize for "Wings of Desire".