Some days I think this is the most beautiful song on the planet. Stunningly beautiful, poignant, strangely serene, almost too moving to bear, deeply sad in an oddly healing way. It speaks from the heart of a remarkable movie tale, and from the heart of this country's most underrated actor (the Kentuckian with a Mexican soul), and from the heart of the beautiful Mixtecan people of Oaxaca. And it does all of that all at once.
Absolutely the greatest actor of his generation. And maybe beyond that. Part of his greatness is that this extraordinary man had at first glance the persona of the most ordinary of men.
This film has stuck in my head for decades. I don’t give a shit about Hollywood bullshit or crap. I just know how this film made ME feel. Thank you Harry Dean Stanton. And all the actors and behind the scene staff who realised this production. A masterpiece. It couldn’t be produced in todays throwaway shit world of rubbish, so-called entertainment, values .
Ry Cooder and Wim Wenders reached all the way to the Mixtecan culture of southern Mexico to find a song of loss poignant and beautiful enough to capture the emotions of this epic story. Harry Dean Stanton, who sings Cancion Mixteca here, loved to sing Mexican music, and he loved Mexican culture -- so much so that he has rightly been called the Kentuckian with a Mexican soul. HDS is also the greatest American actor never to receive a Hollywood award. That is a loss too.
39 years ago I watched the film, Paris Texas. Today the song sung by Harry Dean Stanton unexpectedly burst out of my memory and is sitting in my mind, centre stage and nothing will shift it. All I want to do is keep listening to it over and over. That is some powerful ju ju... Thank you for this Harry.
The Mixtec song/ canción mixteca, from Oaxaca State, in southern Mexico. The lyrics of this song describe the feeling of nostalgia that Mexican people feel when being far from their homeland. The lyrics of this song are usually sung in Spanish or Mixtec language.
Best movie ever. Thanks for this beautiful super 8 part of "Paris, Texas"! Harry Dean singing is so seeming - we miss his great character on cinema screen!
Speaking of the Mixtecan people and Mexico, today there are two young champions of both Oaxacan and Mixtecan music culture.. They happen to be of Mixtecan heritage, and they have also performed this same beautiful song, which belongs to their people. Their names are Sheyla and Emily Rosas, they live in San Marcos CA, and they perform as "Dueto Dos Rosas". Their soaring harmonies in scores of posted songs have had millions of views on TH-cam, Spotify, etc. Their mission is to preserve the cultural heritage of their Oaxacan and Mixtecan forebears. They decided as young teens to teach themselves requinto guitar and dozens of campirana songs. They are cultural heroes, and have been honored in Oaxaca for that. They are IMO the best young music duo in North America. Please look them up and support them.
@@JohnOlimb Thank you for your comment. We should all work to assure that Sheyla and Emily Rosas get the recognition, support and honor they deserve. They are supremely talented as well as on a mission not just to keep an entire music culture alive but also to support Latino people generally, immigrants, minorities, people of color, women of color. They performed at the site of one of America’s shameful mass shootings to support the Mexican community who had been targeted. They are young heroes of our time.
Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido! Inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento Al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento ¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte Ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor Y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento ¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte Ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor Al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento
My brother introduced me to this movie back in the 90s. I totally love it all, the acoustic pickin' by Ry Cooder, the story line and, of course, the lovely Natasha. The recurring theme song, Cancion Mixteca, is a classic with renown line, "Quisiera morir de sentimiento," or "Would that I would die of loneliness." I used to travel I-10 weekly in my eighteen wheeler days and I made many of the same stops as Walt and Travis.
Exactamente lo que es esta cancion, NOSTALGIA ! Escritor cuando en refugio en España la escribio añorando su tierra. Casi no vive para poder tener cancion ! (Al regresar, lo aprendieron y casi fusilan ! )
Paris, Texas is a masterpiece. The filmmaking, the music, the acting and the dialogue, which includes one of the most devastating monologues in history. A slow-moving two and a half hour movie that never fails to keep my eyes glued to the screen... no matter how many times I watch it.
i saw it when it came out in paris where I was living, 35 years ago. it only grows in its beauty and depth. all of it. an apex for every single person involved, in my opinion.
Totally agree but for my part I can't watch it even a second time so far. When I think about it, it's haunt me like some part of my own past, even if I can't relate my situation to any character. It just gives me such a strong feelings of extinction and nostalgia that I'm equally smitten and reluctant to confront it.
Thank you, Ry Cooder. Thank you, Wim Wenders. Thank you, Harry Dean Stanton. Thank you, Nastassia Kinski. This is as good as film making gets. This is as good as storytelling gets.
I had this on an old cassette, worn the thing out, loved it so much Rt Cooder is a genius . The film with Harry Dean Stanton is a masterpiece of cinema, the soundtrack is perfect in every way
There are at least three other transcendent things about this song besides HDS’s singing so poignantly. First, someone is singing great harmony with him. Second, the piano accompanist is brilliant. Third, Ry Cooder can make a guitar weep. This song and this performance are immortal.
I am 70 years and not in my entire life has any work of art, music, poetry or prose had such an effect on me as this. I am so grateful for Mr. Staton and that this was made.
A magnificent marriage of different people’s visions of heartbreak and yearning condensed into a few bars of traditional music. Who needs a wall to barricade oneself from this?
So sweet, so melancholic, so light, yet so intense I can hardly hold back tears. Now, take Ry Cooder's alchemy and add it to one my favourite movies ever, and there you have this kind of side effect on me. Love from Italy.
¡Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido! Inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento Al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento ¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte Ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor Y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento ¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte Ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor Al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento
I saw this film as a kid blew me away, a perfect film in every way , a man trying to right the wrongs , he had done and reunite his ex wife with her son, and finally realising he had to walk away and leave them , he could not hurt them anymore, incredible .
Paris, Texas is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I have thought about watching it again, but in a way it is too painful, too reminiscent of a relationship I once had myself. If you ever find someone you love, treat them right and enjoy every moment together.
COODER has a way to slow down the hurt and await till one tear rolls down the cheek before the next note is strunmed. Specially this song, its haunted and the movie tells it. Movie and specially this song DO tell the story of TRAVIS's ( Harry Dean Stanton) travels, AND the internal pain...(in the movie) 👍
The header notes need to say two more things: That the stunning singing in this song is by underappreciated American actor Harry Deah Stanton, and that this is an old Mixtecan folk song from Oaxaca. HDS sang this song publicly until he was 91 years old.
My dad and I cried heavy tears through this film several times. I also cried through it in particular this very scene when I lived in LA and in one of my Primal Therapy sessions with Leslie where we watched this film and I thought about my Great Dane Alto who had died. Right now I'm crying again missing my dog Dave who died in December. The theme is remembering good moments. We live for good moments in life because they are so elusive.
it is mad to see that this song, I may have listened to 1,000 times still bring tears. It stirs so many memories of a beloved past. But we now all seem to be condemned to walk eternally in the desert
Know what? I'm 53 and this movie revealed my entire life when I was 18. I am Travis, I'm the music, I'm the desert, and I will be till I'm dead. Sometimes art is not your background, your culture, it's your bones. You don't know who shot at first, the film or your destiny.
I keep coming back to this most beautiful singing and playing of this most beautiful of songs. Viva Oaxaca and the Mixtecan people! RIP one of our most legendary actors.
Harry Dean Stanton's performance in this movie is a masterpiece. He used to play only supporting roles unfortunately, but he was far more talented than the so-callled stars. So glad I can pay tribute to his acting
Just thinking about this film and listening to this lovely tune shatters my heart into pieces and sends shivers throughout my whole body. Absolutely impeccable works of art and relentless beauty. I wish I could personally thank everyone involved in the creation of these masterfully crafted pieces of art.
Mixteca Song How far am I from the land Where I was born Immense homesickness Invades my thought. And seeing myself so alone and sad Like a leaf in the wind I want to cry I want to die Of grief. Oh! Land of sun I sigh to see you Now so far away I live without light, without love. And seeing myself so alone and sad Like a leaf in the wind I want to cry I want to die Of grief.
I spend my decades as a movie fan and after seeing thousands of movies, there are only 2 or 3 movies that cause me the same deep sensations as paris texas sadness, melancholy, and seeing the ephemeral of our existence. watching at paris texas is like looking at an old photo of ourselves where we are with people who are not in this world anymore.
@@Javier-qk1cr "Schindler's list", "Forrest Gump", "Leon The Professional", "Falling Down", "Life is beautiful". Honestly, these are for sure moving movies. But "Paris, Texas" just gave me complex emotions, I guess, only "Blade Runner 2049" gave me the same. Masterpieces.
A pretty darn good movie. I still remember it after almost 40 years. I will recommend 'The Claim'. A very good movie , but not in the same league as 'Paris, Texas'. However it does have a still beautiful Natasha Kinski.
Late night at Dan Tana's (LA) in the early 90's wound up drinking with Harry Dean, Joe Pesci, Dabney Coleman and Danny Aiello....they locked the doors at 2am and let us stay till 4am...Stories to die for!! I couldn't drive (duh!) and Harry Dean gave me a ride home to NoHo in his limo...He was so cool and really nice. A great classic film! Thanks for posting...Ry rocks..always!
This is the he'll of a good movie. Both Harry Dean Stanton and sam shepard died last year. Stanton was 91 and shepard was 73. I am glad that they had made this movie possible in the 80s.
Sere la única persona que no a visto esa película.... Tengo que verla la simple canción del soundtrack me indica que es toda una joya un deleite para todos nuestros sentidos
Having lived in southern Arizona in the mid 60’s to early 70’s it’s reminiscent and lovely. I recall a television show called “Mexican Theater” I think....that I recall was on Sundays where it was all music of Mexican origin, I would watch as a kid, and where I fell in love with this genre...☀️🌵
It is mesmerising music, I just remembered I played it years ago all the time when I purchased the CD 'Pari'... I just put it on replay and although I do not know the words I was singing in another language. I just live this track. the work of Ry Cooder is brilliant. Very pure .
For me - This is one of the most heartbreaking songs ever! The movie it's taken from is also outstanding! The very words of the song are Heartbreaking!!!
I love the part when his sister in law , June, I think was her name, awakes when Travis is singing" Las mañanitas" in perfect spanish makes me the shivers !
I just love this piece of music; it speaks to my heart. I've lived out in this city in Mexico since '08 and when the troubadours do their rounds of the cantinas and find me staring into the bottom of my glass and miles away in my mind, you can guarantee they'll recognise me and play Canción Mixteca.
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Only my opinion but Paris Texas is to this day the greatest film ever made. I can relate to this movie more than any other. His pain sadness, loss and sorrow knows no bounds. No one to blame does not matter as love lost is rain and pain in the heart. Self reflection helps mend but that damaged soul never really heals. Melancholy is sometimes needed but don't stay there my friend as the sun will rise tomorrow and new hope comes with it.
Let's remember, especially since Oct. 10 will be Indigenous People's Day for many, that this uncannily beautiful song comes from the Mixtecan people of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. They are the source of the extraordinary beauty and emotion of this most beautiful of the world's songs. Let us honor them too when we listen.
It just might be the most poignant song ever written, and maybe this is the most poignant rendering of that song ever. By a guy from Kentucky who somehow had a Mexican soul.
I would love to know how Wenders found or landed on this emotionally perfect, poignant piece of music as the theme for the movie. A stroke of supreme genius, or maybe synchronicity.
it's a good metaphor, even for those of us who have never been to Oaxaca the nostalgia could be for a time, situation, relationship, place - great song
Speaking of Ry Cooder, he creates one of the most beautiful guitar sounds in the world. Just listen to his masterful "Talking Timbuktu" with the late Ali Farka Toure' from Mali as another He also was behind one of the greatest documentary films ever made, "The Buena Vista Social Club'. IThe film resulted from his interest in Afro-Cuban music.
It's Funny, yesterday I was thinking about Listening to Ry Cooder and The film Buena vista social club. I came to know him because of the film Paris, Texas but this time I am going to search for other que Ry Cooder albums.
Incredible actor, but I never knew of his vocal talent until I bought a Ry Cooder CD about 20 years ago that had this hauntingly beautiful tune on it, and even then at first, I don't think I knew it was him singing. I saw his name in the credits and thought maybe he was playing an instrument on it. Sadly, my year of Spanish class in junior high school didn't equip me with the ability to understand the lyrics of this song, but I feel each and every syllable every time I hear it, which is another testament of the man's talent. Rest In Peace, Mr. Stanton
album: Paris, Texas [OST] (1984)
* footage from the film PARIS, TEXAS (1984) directed by Wim Wenders
I recall a disturbing scene from an otherwise good movie
What was disturbing to you?
love the video!
Canción con muxo amor passion y sentimiento
Zorba, it could of just bin the word, does that make it an oxymoron?
Some days I think this is the most beautiful song on the planet. Stunningly beautiful, poignant, strangely serene, almost too moving to bear, deeply sad in an oddly healing way. It speaks from the heart of a remarkable movie tale, and from the heart of this country's most underrated actor (the Kentuckian with a Mexican soul), and from the heart of the beautiful Mixtecan people of Oaxaca. And it does all of that all at once.
@Richard Logan Well said.
The greatest actor of his generation was never nominated for a single major award. Makes you realize how worthless Oscars and Emmys are.
Absolutely the greatest actor of his generation. And maybe beyond that. Part of his greatness is that this extraordinary man had at first glance the persona of the most ordinary of men.
How often do the real heroes go unhonored?
Dean Stockwell didn’t win an Oscar? Are you sure?
Fuck Hollywood, just like rappers it's all independent now, ✌🏽
This film has stuck in my head for decades. I don’t give a shit about Hollywood bullshit or crap. I just know how this film made ME feel. Thank you Harry Dean Stanton. And all the actors and behind the scene staff who realised this production.
A masterpiece. It couldn’t be produced in todays throwaway shit world of rubbish, so-called entertainment, values .
Una de las mejores películas que he visto, y esta escena y canción contribuyen en gran medida a esa consideración.
💯
Ry Cooder and Wim Wenders reached all the way to the Mixtecan culture of southern Mexico to find a song of loss poignant and beautiful enough to capture the emotions of this epic story. Harry Dean Stanton, who sings Cancion Mixteca here, loved to sing Mexican music, and he loved Mexican culture -- so much so that he has rightly been called the Kentuckian with a Mexican soul. HDS is also the greatest American actor never to receive a Hollywood award. That is a loss too.
No sólo Stanton y Kinsky, también Stockwell y Clement actuaron impecablemente. Magnifico film
The most underrated movie ever.
Such a masterpiece.
There'll never be a movie like this one.
Underrated?
The first and only film that made me cry convulsingly at the end, the first time I watched it years ago.
A masterpiece in every sense.
It was my third after Lonely Are the Brave, when I was about 13, and Atonement.
39 years ago I watched the film, Paris Texas. Today the song sung by Harry Dean Stanton unexpectedly burst out of my memory and is sitting in my mind, centre stage and nothing will shift it. All I want to do is keep listening to it over and over. That is some powerful ju ju... Thank you for this Harry.
The Mixtec song/ canción mixteca, from Oaxaca State, in southern Mexico. The lyrics of this song describe the feeling of nostalgia that Mexican people feel when being far from their homeland. The lyrics of this song are usually sung in Spanish or Mixtec language.
Harry always stays in our minds and hearts. Who wants Oscars or Emys when you have the greatest soul?
Como Oaxaqueño se siente bonito poder ver trascender nuestra música
Best movie ever. Thanks for this beautiful super 8 part of "Paris, Texas"! Harry Dean singing is so seeming - we miss his great character on cinema screen!
God Bless Harry Deans Legacy.
I can imagine just getting in the car and taking the scenic route for hours listening to this kind of music. Just thinking about life.
It will forever be one of my favorites 🖤. Paris, Texas, a masterpiece ✨️
Speaking of the Mixtecan people and Mexico, today there are two young champions of both Oaxacan and Mixtecan music culture.. They happen to be of Mixtecan heritage, and they have also performed this same beautiful song, which belongs to their people. Their names are Sheyla and Emily Rosas, they live in San Marcos CA, and they perform as "Dueto Dos Rosas". Their soaring harmonies in scores of posted songs have had millions of views on TH-cam, Spotify, etc. Their mission is to preserve the cultural heritage of their Oaxacan and Mixtecan forebears. They decided as young teens to teach themselves requinto guitar and dozens of campirana songs. They are cultural heroes, and have been honored in Oaxaca for that. They are IMO the best young music duo in North America. Please look them up and support them.
Thank you for you enligthened point of view, I will certainly look into this further. Greetings from Goteborg, Sweden, in a grim era of our history.
@@JohnOlimb Thank you for your comment. We should all work to assure that Sheyla and Emily Rosas get the recognition, support and honor they deserve. They are supremely talented as well as on a mission not just to keep an entire music culture alive but also to support Latino people generally, immigrants, minorities, people of color, women of color. They performed at the site of one of America’s shameful mass shootings to support the Mexican community who had been targeted. They are young heroes of our time.
Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido!
Inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento
Al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento
Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento
¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte
Ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor
Y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento
Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento
¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte
Ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor
Al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento
Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento
Great film, great actor, singer, and human being, harry dean Stanton, and the wonderful music of ry cooper, what more can a person want.
My brother introduced me to this movie back in the 90s. I totally love it all, the acoustic pickin' by Ry Cooder, the story line and, of course, the lovely Natasha. The recurring theme song, Cancion Mixteca, is a classic with renown line, "Quisiera morir de sentimiento," or "Would that I would die of loneliness." I used to travel I-10 weekly in my eighteen wheeler days and I made many of the same stops as Walt and Travis.
what's the name of the movie??
Paris, Texas
Nunca he escuchado esta canción ni película pero me recuerda de mi niñez en México y la juventud de mis papás :)
Exactamente lo que es esta cancion, NOSTALGIA !
Escritor cuando en refugio en España la escribio añorando su tierra.
Casi no vive para poder tener cancion !
(Al regresar, lo aprendieron y casi fusilan ! )
Had this playing in the car driving through some lonely county roads in East Texas.
Paris, Texas is a masterpiece. The filmmaking, the music, the acting and the dialogue, which includes one of the most devastating monologues in history. A slow-moving two and a half hour movie that never fails to keep my eyes glued to the screen... no matter how many times I watch it.
#Commiseration
i saw it when it came out in paris where I was living, 35 years ago. it only grows in its beauty and depth. all of it. an apex for every single person involved, in my opinion.
Ronald H After so many years, still my all time favorite movie. Music, camera, acting, screenplay, just everything about it.
Totally agree but for my part I can't watch it even a second time so far. When I think about it, it's haunt me like some part of my own past, even if I can't relate my situation to any character. It just gives me such a strong feelings of extinction and nostalgia that I'm equally smitten and reluctant to confront it.
@@macfly693 - those feelings are totally understandable. It seems so quiet a movie yet has the impact of a sledgehammer.
Thank you, Ry Cooder.
Thank you, Wim Wenders.
Thank you, Harry Dean Stanton.
Thank you, Nastassia Kinski.
This is as good as film making gets.
This is as good as storytelling gets.
Joseph you're right!!!
Sam Shepard wrote the screenplay.
Thank you, Sam Shepard
Thank you, Robby Müller
And Dean Stockwell
Amen !
I had this on an old cassette, worn the thing out, loved it so much Rt Cooder is a genius . The film with Harry Dean Stanton is a masterpiece of cinema, the soundtrack is perfect in every way
I have to watch this about every 3 months.
Q honor q cantes una canción mexicana. Gracias
There are at least three other transcendent things about this song besides HDS’s singing so poignantly. First, someone is singing great harmony with him. Second, the piano accompanist is brilliant. Third, Ry Cooder can make a guitar weep. This song and this performance are immortal.
Nunca la he podido escuchar sin lágrimas visibles o invisibles
I discovered this song because I hung out with Harry Dean Stanton years ago...his fave
Reunión de maestros, Wim Wenders, Ry Cooder, el Harry Dean Steanton, la bella Nastassia Kinski....🙏💙🇦🇷
Totalmente de acuerdo, es la transmutación de imágenes en arte ❤
Now Dean Stockwell is also gone, Rest In Peace, Dean
😢
Hermosa canción le encantaba a mi padre y esta versión me saco las lágrimas.
That super 8 footage is beautifully created. Makes you longing for memories that wasn't there. That swirling by Nastasjja is very smooth.
I am 70 years and not in my entire life has any work of art, music, poetry or prose had such an effect on me as this. I am so grateful for Mr. Staton and that this was made.
It is a traditional Mexican song. This interpretation is great. I agree.
A magnificent marriage of different people’s visions of heartbreak and yearning condensed into a few bars of traditional music. Who needs a wall to barricade oneself from this?
52 and I feel the same. We miss Harry so much. And Wim Wenders too. A Mexican migrants song about nostalgia and "sentimiento". Fuck you Mr. Trump.
How about Ry?
Amen !
Himno de esa tierra de Oaxaca querida !!! y mi Mexico
So sweet, so melancholic, so light, yet so intense I can hardly hold back tears. Now, take Ry Cooder's alchemy and add it to one my favourite movies ever, and there you have this kind of side effect on me. Love from Italy.
An absolute masterpiece
Wim Wenders , Sam Shepard screenplay, Harry Dean Stanton Natasha Kinski
And Ry Cooder
Wow
I watched this film a week back. Got to be one of the best films I’ve ever seen. Something about it is enchanting.
1984獲獎無数／經典公路電影
SHE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND WE ALL MISS YOU HARRY DEAN
I have come to the conclusion that this is the best piece of music I have ever heard. It is hypnotic. It stirs emotions in me like no other.
more people will realise, eventually. live in hope. enjoy. xxx
Let's hope so. It's music that feeds the soul.
I can't argue that.
jamuga60 I agree!
jamuga60 yes I want it to go on forever...sadly nothing ever does..!!
¡Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido!
Inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento
Al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento
Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento
¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte
Ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor
Y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento
Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento
¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte
Ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor
Al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento
Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento
Bless you Harry Dean! The greatest unsung actor of his generation..and a beautiful singer ..
I saw this film as a kid blew me away, a perfect film in every way , a man trying to right the wrongs , he had done and reunite his ex wife with her son, and finally realising he had to walk away and leave them , he could not hurt them anymore, incredible .
I am crying already ,because I am that man, and I.haven't even watched the film.
So beautiful, it's painful.
My México 🖤 ....¡Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido!
Inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento!!...
Paris, Texas is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I have thought about watching it again, but in a way it is too painful, too reminiscent of a relationship I once had myself. If you ever find someone you love, treat them right and enjoy every moment together.
Excelente 👍💐 saludos cordiales desde Monterrey México 🇲🇽
The song it’s beautiful we have it in different versions but this one is just beautiful. The video it’s pure beauty
Ry Cooder forever!❤❤❤
Country music ain't got shit on the melancholy that Mexican music embodies! Como Mexico, no hay dos!
COODER has a way to slow down the hurt and await till one tear rolls down the cheek before the next note is strunmed.
Specially this song, its haunted and the movie tells it.
Movie and specially this song DO tell the story of TRAVIS's ( Harry Dean Stanton) travels, AND the internal pain...(in the movie)
👍
The header notes need to say two more things: That the stunning singing in this song is by underappreciated American actor Harry Deah Stanton, and that this is an old Mixtecan folk song from Oaxaca. HDS sang this song publicly until he was 91 years old.
Beautiful - guaranteed to bring tear to my eye this scene
My dad and I cried heavy tears through this film several times. I also cried through it in particular this very scene when I lived in LA and in one of my Primal Therapy sessions with Leslie where we watched this film and I thought about my Great Dane Alto who had died. Right now I'm crying again missing my dog Dave who died in December. The theme is remembering good moments. We live for good moments in life because they are so elusive.
it is mad to see that this song, I may have listened to 1,000 times still bring tears. It stirs so many memories of a beloved past. But we now all seem to be condemned to walk eternally in the desert
This song gets me in the feels every time. ❤
❤😢one of the love songs that still after all these years I still love it and still makes me cry 😢❤❤❤
It's not a love song
Know what? I'm 53 and this movie revealed my entire life when I was 18. I am Travis, I'm the music, I'm the desert, and I will be till I'm dead. Sometimes art is not your background, your culture, it's your bones. You don't know who shot at first, the film or your destiny.
Fatherhood: the art of quiet love. A prayer. thank you Wim
I keep coming back to this most beautiful singing and playing of this most beautiful of songs. Viva Oaxaca and the Mixtecan people! RIP one of our most legendary actors.
unforgettable movie, soundtrack and haunting musical echo's which stay deep in the soul!
Harry Dean Stanton's performance in this movie is a masterpiece. He used to play only supporting roles unfortunately, but he was far more talented than the so-callled stars. So glad I can pay tribute to his acting
Just thinking about this film and listening to this lovely tune shatters my heart into pieces and sends shivers throughout my whole body. Absolutely impeccable works of art and relentless beauty. I wish I could personally thank everyone involved in the creation of these masterfully crafted pieces of art.
One of the saddest movies ever...it hurt my heart to see Natasha break Harry Dean down to zero! Brilliant
Mixteca Song
How far am I from the land
Where I was born
Immense homesickness
Invades my thought.
And seeing myself so alone and sad
Like a leaf in the wind
I want to cry
I want to die
Of grief.
Oh! Land of sun
I sigh to see you
Now so far away
I live without light, without love.
And seeing myself so alone and sad
Like a leaf in the wind
I want to cry
I want to die
Of grief.
I spend my decades as a movie fan and after seeing thousands of movies, there are only 2 or 3 movies that cause me the same deep sensations as paris texas
sadness, melancholy, and seeing the ephemeral of our existence.
watching at paris texas is like looking at an old photo of ourselves where we are with people who are not in this world anymore.
i'm curious what the other 2 movies are?
Could not agree more! Thousands of movies afterwards, just this one and The Deer Hunter keep moving very deep feelings.
@@ghost__chips I would choose The Deer Hunter and Platoon
What do you suggest?
@@Javier-qk1cr "Schindler's list", "Forrest Gump", "Leon The Professional", "Falling Down", "Life is beautiful". Honestly, these are for sure moving movies. But "Paris, Texas" just gave me complex emotions, I guess, only "Blade Runner 2049" gave me the same. Masterpieces.
@@bladerunner9531 Agreed!
A pretty darn good movie. I still remember it after almost 40 years. I will recommend 'The Claim'. A very good movie , but not in the same league as 'Paris, Texas'. However it does have a still beautiful Natasha Kinski.
Late night at Dan Tana's (LA) in the early 90's wound up drinking with Harry Dean, Joe Pesci, Dabney Coleman and Danny Aiello....they locked the doors at 2am and let us stay till 4am...Stories to die for!! I couldn't drive (duh!) and Harry Dean gave me a ride home to NoHo in his limo...He was so cool and really nice. A great classic film! Thanks for posting...Ry rocks..always!
Wim Wenders. A favorite, dear memory of a time... 😔 .. we all never get back-- you can change the Now, you caint retrace the past. 🎉
This is the he'll of a good movie. Both Harry Dean Stanton and sam shepard died last year. Stanton was 91 and shepard was 73. I am glad that they had made this movie possible in the 80s.
zum verlieben - das Leben wird wieder lebenswert
Sere la única persona que no a visto esa película.... Tengo que verla la simple canción del soundtrack me indica que es toda una joya un deleite para todos nuestros sentidos
Ry Cooder is such a master. His CD with selections from the two dozen odd movies he has scored is just amazing.
See the movie. It’s a heartbreaker
And one of the best movies ever in my opinion!!!
I saw it for the first time soon after its release. It hasn't let go of me since. Once you see it, ...
I always cry watching this film.
i began to exist after i saw this film.
mon film préféré de tous les temps
si émouvant et humain!!!!
la musique de RYE COODER LE REND ENCORE PLUS BEAU....
One of the most beautiful movies I have ever since, a masterpiece of Wim Wenders!! and what a music!!!
Having lived in southern Arizona in the mid 60’s to early 70’s it’s reminiscent and lovely. I recall a television show called “Mexican Theater” I think....that I recall was on Sundays where it was all music of Mexican origin, I would watch as a kid, and where I fell in love with this genre...☀️🌵
It is mesmerising music, I just remembered I played it years ago all the time when I purchased the CD 'Pari'... I just put it on replay and although I do not know the words I was singing in another language. I just live this track. the work of Ry Cooder is brilliant. Very pure .
Amo es video subido a youtube.
La musica y las imagenes de la pelicula son de lo mas hermoso que vi en youtube en muchisimo tiempo .
a song that reaches very deep for all of us who have left our beautiful land and still long for it, my me mexico my land of the sun.
For me - This is one of the most heartbreaking songs ever! The movie it's taken from is also outstanding! The very words of the song are Heartbreaking!!!
I love the part when his sister in law , June, I think was her name, awakes when Travis is singing" Las mañanitas" in perfect spanish makes me the shivers !
I'm devastated to hear he has died today.A monster player who played with everyone for a long time.R.I.P.😢😢😢😢😢
He died today? wtf
Ry cooder is still alive
I just love this piece of music; it speaks to my heart. I've lived out in this city in Mexico since '08 and when the troubadours do their rounds of the cantinas and find me staring into the bottom of my glass and miles away in my mind, you can guarantee they'll recognise me and play Canción Mixteca.
Only my opinion but Paris Texas is to this day the greatest film ever made. I can relate to this movie more than any other. His pain sadness, loss and sorrow knows no bounds. No one to blame does not matter as love lost is rain and pain in the heart. Self reflection helps mend but that damaged soul never really heals. Melancholy is sometimes needed but don't stay there my friend as the sun will rise tomorrow and new hope comes with it.
Let's remember, especially since Oct. 10 will be Indigenous People's Day for many, that this uncannily beautiful song comes from the Mixtecan people of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. They are the source of the extraordinary beauty and emotion of this most beautiful of the world's songs. Let us honor them too when we listen.
And crime and drugs+alcoholism. Don't put races on a pedestal all have good and bad people
The piano is great in this song. It supports the guitar without overwhelming the melody. Well done. Great song.
Heartbreaking song!... Heartbreaking movie!
It just might be the most poignant song ever written, and maybe this is the most poignant rendering of that song ever. By a guy from Kentucky who somehow had a Mexican soul.
Que gran canción, siempre que la escucho me hace soñar.
Ry Cooder is a national treasure.
A World Treasure!
I would love to know how Wenders found or landed on this emotionally perfect, poignant piece of music as the theme for the movie. A stroke of supreme genius, or maybe synchronicity.
Maybe Ry Cooder suggested the song.
@@richardlogan1021
Maybe Harry did.
RIP Harry Dean Stanton. One of the greats.
Nostalgia de regresar y de revivir lo que se perdió. Una música excelente que lo plasma.
it's a good metaphor, even for those of us who have never been to Oaxaca
the nostalgia could be for a time, situation, relationship, place - great song
This mirrors a time in my life...and I play it often, it never fails to stir emotion..thanks Harry.
Speaking of Ry Cooder, he creates one of the most beautiful guitar sounds in the world. Just listen to his masterful "Talking Timbuktu" with the late Ali Farka Toure' from Mali as another He also was behind one of the greatest documentary films ever made, "The Buena Vista Social Club'. IThe film resulted from his interest in Afro-Cuban music.
It's Funny, yesterday I was thinking about Listening to Ry Cooder and The film Buena vista social club. I came to know him because of the film Paris, Texas but this time I am going to search for other que Ry Cooder albums.
@@CristinaTomas-xd6dk Look up Talking Timbuktu.
Incredible actor, but I never knew of his vocal talent until I bought a Ry Cooder CD about 20 years ago that had this hauntingly beautiful tune on it, and even then at first, I don't think I knew it was him singing. I saw his name in the credits and thought maybe he was playing an instrument on it. Sadly, my year of Spanish class in junior high school didn't equip me with the ability to understand the lyrics of this song, but I feel each and every syllable every time I hear it, which is another testament of the man's talent.
Rest In Peace, Mr. Stanton
He sings a little in "Cool Hand Luke" as well, if I recall. And picks a little guitar, as well.
The first season of "Big Love" he sings and plays ''big rock candy Mountain "
Rick M I had no idea either haha, what a voice
AMO ESTA CANCION MUCHISIMO
I'm 65 and the big 3 of movies for me are Rocky, Deer Hunter and Paris Texas.
Cancel Rocky, please...
@@alessandromarchesini9039 why though? It's an inspirational movie.
You are a cultured man.
Suits you...but I am 70 and would replace Rocky with The Night of the Hunter (C. Laughton) 😊
Agree except replace Rocky with Mississipee Burning