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Just below the surface of Wim Wender’s film Paris, Texas, is a metaphor for America’s alienation from its own landscape. The film’s storyline follows Harry Dean Stanton as Travis Henderson on his journey back from insanity.
The Conqueror, 1956, directed by Dick Powell.
THE CONQUEROR I am haunted by a vision of John Wayne as the Mongolian warrior, Temujin, conquering his enemies, finding (kidnapping, actually) the love of Susan Hayward, then being proclaimed as “Genghis Kahn”; all this in the desert outside St. George, Utah .
SUBSURFACE 2008