A still from Paris, Texas (1984)
The New York Times recently published an article about the great Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller, who has an upcoming retrospective at Eye film museum. Müller has given us some of the most transcendent images ever captured on-screen. Since beginning his career in the late sixties, he has lensed a wealth of indelible moments—from Harry Dean Stanton wandering alone through the vast Southwestern desert in Wim Wenders’s Paris, Texas (one of my favorite scenes in cinema history) to the jailbirds of Jim Jarmusch’s Down by Law on their odyssey through the Louisiana bayou.