Desert Trips

Desert Trips

4 Episodes

The vast, arid landscapes of the American Southwest become hallucinatory expanses of existential reckoning in these sun-blasted journeys into a harsh, unforgiving no-man’s land. From the counterculture disillusionment of Michelangelo Antonioni’s ZABRISKIE POINT to the aching desolation of Wim Wenders’s PARIS, TEXAS to the feverish romanticism of David Lynch’s WILD AT HEART, these films turn scorched highways and otherworldly terrain into unforgettable projections of their characters’ inner worlds.

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Desert Trips

4 Episodes

  • Zabriskie Point
    1:53:47
    Zabriskie Point
    Episode 1

    Zabriskie Point

    Episode 1

    Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1970 • United States
    Starring Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor

    Italian art-cinema titan Michelangelo Antonioni delivered a jolt of jarring modernist abstraction to Hollywood with this startling journey into the 1960s counterculture, one of the most d...

  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    1:58:38
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    Episode 2

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    Episode 2

    Directed by Terry Gilliam • 1998 • United States
    Starring Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Ellen Barkin

    It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels toward Las Vegas—accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo—to cover a motorcycle race. What shoul...

  • Wild at Heart
    2:05:17
    Wild at Heart
    Episode 3

    Wild at Heart

    Episode 3

    Directed by David Lynch • 1990 • United States
    Starring Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe

    David Lynch throws pulp melodrama, THE WIZARD OF OZ, surreal-kinky violence, and Elvis into a cauldron and brews this nightmarish soap opera in which outlaw lovers Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura...

  • Paris, Texas
    2:26:51
    Paris, Texas
    Episode 4

    Paris, Texas

    Episode 4

    Directed by Wim Wenders • 1984 • France, West Germany
    Starring Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski

    New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (WINGS OF DESIRE) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in PARIS, TEXAS, a profoundly moving character study written by ...

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