<i> Noteworthy films, with mini-reviews by Times critics.</i>

Paris, Texas: Mysterious and magnificent, Wim Wenders’ deeply affecting 1984 film is about family, separation, loss and a man’s last act of repentance. Even if it breaks its audience’s rapport in its last 20 minutes, the film’s beautiful parable about rootlessness has gone deep into our unconscious, where the image of Harry Dean Stanton (left), barbed-wire bearded and largely silent, desperately trying to pull his family together again, had lodged permanently. Written by Sam Shepard and adapted by L. M. Kit Carson. With Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clement and Hunter Carson. (Cinemax Friday at 1:50 a.m.)