Emotion Pictures

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