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Exiting the Comma: On Liminality and Redemption in Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas

Exiting the Comma: On Liminality and Redemption in Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas

In Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas, Travis is adrift, caught in the comma between the liminal ‘Paris’ and the redemptive ‘Texas’, between lost futures and the impermeable present. 

The 20 Best DVDs of 2023

The 20 Best DVDs of 2023

In our Best DVDs of 2023 list, along with some classic television, we have selected known treasures and unconventional films to satisfy the discerning cinephile.

BFI London Film Festival 2023: Critics’ Chat

BFI London Film Festival 2023: Critics’ Chat

BFI London Film Festival’s most impressionable films of the year, industry strikes, awards season, and the shoe-leather journalism of a film festival critic.

How We Made ‘Buena Vista Social Club’: Interview with Eliades Ochoa and Nick Gold

How We Made ‘Buena Vista Social Club’: Interview with Eliades Ochoa and Nick Gold

When the Buena Vista Social Club album came out in 1997, it had an indelible effect on the international community's perception of Cuba.

Wim Wenders’ Road Movies as Journeys of Disaffection

Wim Wenders’ Road Movies as Journeys of Disaffection

With his “Road Trilogy”, Wim Wenders suggests that to find our place, we must be displaced.

Compelling Sociopaths and ‘The American Friend’

Compelling Sociopaths and ‘The American Friend’

Dennis Hopper brings out the sociopathic characteristics of Tom Ripley in Wim Wenders' The American Friend.

A Paean to the Pictures: ‘The Story of Film: An Odyssey’

OSCARWATCH 2012: Documentary Features

‘Pina’ Sneak Preview at Stranger Than Fiction 12 December at 8pm

Dance, Dance, Otherwise We Are Lost: ‘Pina’: Wim Wenders’ 3D Tribute

The ‘Ruins’ at the ‘End of the World’: Atmospheric Ambience and Dream Space

The 100 Essential Directors Part 10: Josef Von Sternberg to Zhang Yimou