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The first weekend of the Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF, 17\u201327 October) will feature a unique screening \u2013 festival visitors will be among the first in the World to experience the recently digitally restored\u00a0<\/b>Paris, Texas<\/b><\/i><\/a>\u00a0(1984) by director Wim Wenders on the big screen. On 19 October, this gold standard of the road movie subgenre will inaugurate the section\u00a0<\/b>ZEITGEIST DEUTSCHLAND<\/b><\/a>, created in cooperation with the Goethe Institute in Riga. Tickets for the screening can be purchased on the festival\u2019s website (<\/b>rigaiff.lv<\/b><\/a>) and at Bi\u013ce\u0161u Serviss sales points.<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a different film today, even though nothing has changed. I see it differently now. I\u2019m happy with the film I see. But it\u2019s definitely different to the one I saw in 1984. We\u2019re closer than ever before to the film originally caught by the camera.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n That is how in an interview with the Wim Wenders Foundation the director describes the film\u00a0Paris, Texas<\/i>, which premiered in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984. Having received several prestigious awards, including the Palme d\u2019Or and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award, Paris, Texas is considered Wenders\u2019s best-known, most recognized, and most cited film. This spring, 40 years after its premiere, the quintessential road movie that has achieved cult status among moviegoers returned to Cannes in a new 4K digitally restored form.<\/p>\n\n