Which Scottish group took its name from the lead character in the film Paris, Texas?
Paris, Texas (film) 1987 film "Wings of Desire". The Irish rock group U2 cited "Paris, Texas" as an inspiration for their album "The Joshua Tree". The Scottish bands Travis and Texas both took their names from this film. Musicians Kurt Cobain and Elliott Smith said this was their favorite film of all time. The film has also influenced later directors, with David Robert Mitchell, who made "It Follows" (2014), saying the aesthetics in its framing and composition were instructive. Wes Anderson was also inspired by Wenders' home movie scene with the photographs of the dead wife in "The Royal Tenenbaums" (2001). In 1986,
Paris, Texas (film) the photography Wenders took on his location scout for "Paris, Texas" was exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France, under the title "Written in the West". In 2000, these were published in a book also titled "Written in the West", with additional material in "Written in the West, Revisited" in 2015. Paris, Texas (film) Paris, Texas is a 1984 road movie directed by Wim Wenders and starring Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski, and Hunter Carson. The screenplay was written by L.M. Kit Carson and playwright Sam Shepard, while the distinctive musical score was composed by Ry