Texas films in the criteria collection before SXSW – The Daily Texan

In honor of its 40th anniversary, the criteria collection comes in the form of an 18-foot delivery car after Austin-one mobile replica of the famous film cabinet. The collection includes more than 1,500 films – with some sets, filmed or rooted in Texas. The Daily Texaner put together a list of Texas films in the collection in honor of the criterion that came to SXSW.

“Paris Texas”
A 1984 film by the German filmmaker Wim Wenders and the award -winning award winner Sam Shepard, “Paris, Texas”, follows Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) when he tries to connect with his little son through his brother (Dean Stockwell) again. After Henderson's brother found him in Texas, the two went in search of his missing wife (Nastassja Kinski). The locations include marathon, Nordheim, Terlingua and two highways in Houston.

“Dazed and confused”
The film follows a group of high schools on the last day of school in Austin in 1976. The line -up is full of names that later became stars – Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Adam Goldberg and Renée Zellweger, to name just a few. Director Richard Linklater filmed in and around Austin “Dazed and Confused” with locations such as the Top -Notch restaurant on Burnet Road, West Enfield Park and the Toney Burger Activity Center.

“Childhood”
Linklater filmed and shot “Boyhood” over a period of 12 years in Texas. The 2014 film tells a coming-of-age story of a boy named Mason (Ellar Coltrane), his parents (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette) and his older sister (Lorelei Linklater)-Linklater's own daughter. Linklater pursued the same line -up over 12 years, so that the audience watches when the characters grow and change in one of the other unsurpassed film over time.

“Bottle rocket”
“Bottle rocket” in Hillsboro and Dallas filmed Wes Anderson's first feature film. Owen Wilson, Anderson's roommate at UT, has the film with her to see a cast of her friends. A dispute between Wilson, Anderson and their negligent landlord inspired “bottle rocket”. The first demonstrations of the film flopped, but from him came the second film “Rushmore”, which brought him to success.

“True stories”
“True Stories”, front man David Byrne's only feature film “True Stories”, follows Byrne, who tells the strange story of the fictional city of Northern Texas Virgil. Byrne presents the viewer of the city during the preparations for his celebration of the peculiarity, the 150th anniversary celebration of the state of Texas. The filming occurred in seven counties of North Texas, including areas in all, Dallas, Mesquite, Red Oak, Hewitt, McKinney and Irving.