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- Don't Come Knocking isn't supposed to be literal: it's a work of insinuation and abstraction, a story about the illusion of home told through the eyes of a man whose whole life has been based on illusion. What Wenders and Shepard are painting here is an Aristotelian void.
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Don't Come Knocking is a 2005 American western film directed by Wim Wenders, and written by Wenders and Sam Shepard. They had previously collaborated on the film Paris, Texas (1984). It was submitted at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
Apr 6, 2006 · "Don't Come Knocking" is a curious film about a movie cowboy who walks off the set, goes seeking his past, and finds something that looks a lot more like a movie than the one he was making. There are scenes that don't even pretend to work.
Aug 25, 2005 · Don't Come Knocking. An aging cowboy movie star deserts a film set and tries to reconnect with his mother, whom he hasn't seen in thirty years, only to learn that he has a child he never knew about.
- (7.9K)
- Drama, Music
- Wim Wenders
- 2005-08-25
Apr 24, 2006 · Initially Shepherd draws you into Howard's world in spectacular style as he flees a movie set on a galloping horse across the Utah desert.
Mar 17, 2006 · Overview. Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth.
In Don't Come Knocking, we follow the almost incomprehensible actions of a leading Hollywood actor (played by Sam Shepard) who absconds from a film set in the middle of the American desert. He is struggling to escape a lifelong persona based around drink, drugs and women, but doesn't know what he is looking for or why he feels life has passed ...
On the verge of a nervous breakdown, aging film star and legendary carouser Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) absconds from the desert set of his latest cowboy movie (still wearing a cowboy hat), and seeks refuge back home with the mother (Eva Marie Saint) he has not seen in three decades.
