Movie Night June 25, 2008

Project Basho will be showing photography-related movies on a bi-monthly basis. These titles include both documentary and fiction where photography plays an important role. Movie Night is a free event and is open to anyone.

“Paris, Texas” (1984)

This unusual road movie, with screenplay by acclaimed playwright Sam Shepard, tells the tale of Travis, a man lost in his own private hell. Presumed dead for four years, he reappears from the desert on the Mexico border, world-weary and an amnesiac. He traces his brother Walt who is bringing up Hunter, his seven-year-old son, his ex-wife Jane having abandoned him at Walt's door several years before. As virtual strangers, Hunter and Travis begin to build a wary friendship and conspire to find Jane and bring her back to be a real family.

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