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Wiry and weathered Harry Dean Stanton had long been a cult character actor in Hollywood when Wenders had the vision to put him at the center of a movie: a modern retelling of The Searchers on the highways of the Southwest, with Harry Dean as the relentless, rueful wanderer and Nastassja Kinski as the woman he’s looking for. Scored by Ry Cooder, written by Sam Shepard and L.M. Kit Carson, and beautifully lensed by Müller who, per a Variety reviewer, “gives the story a surface polish that hints of Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keeffe paintings.”