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Wenders halts movie after subject's death -
5 July 2009
-Moviemaker Wim Wenders has halted work on new film Pina following the death of the movie's subject, Pina Bausch. -
-The legendary choreographer died on Tuesday (30Jun09) days after she was diagnosed with cancer. She was 68.-
- The Wenders film she was working on w
Wim Wenders - what members say
review by from Birmingham, England
Brilliantly evocative piece of cinema 8 December 2003
review by A customer from London
pretentious, moi ? 15 September 2004
review by from London
What Ripley should be 29 February 2004
Wim Wenders - filmography
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The Story of Film - An Odyssey
(2011)
Starring: Wim Wenders, Stanley Donen, Robert Towne
Director: Mark Cousins
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey, written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation.
Lovingly researched and five years in the making, The Story of Film: An Odyssey covers six continents and 12 decades, ..read more »
 
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Pina
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo, Ruth Amarante
Director: Wim Wenders
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Pina is a film for Pina Bausch. With the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, this feature-length dance film portrays the exhilarating and inimitable art of this great German choreographer who died in the summer of 2009. Inviting the viewer on a sensual, visually stunning journey of ..read more »
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from 743 members
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Michael Shannon, Loretta Devine, Chloe Sevigny
Director: Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders
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The first collaboration between legendary filmmakers David Lynch and Werner Herzog, MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE is loosely based on the true story of a San Diego man whose mystifying experiences lead him to commit a shocking act of matricide. Michael Shannon, Chloe Sevigny, and Willem Dafoe ..read more »
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Land of Plenty
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Michelle Williams, Burt Young, Gloria Stuart
Director: Wim Wenders
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Wim Wenders's emotional LAND OF PLENTY is a powerful exploration of post-9/11 America. John Diehl gives a strong performance as Paul, a Vietnam Vet who is haunted by the events of September 11 and drives the streets of Los Angeles searching for terrorists he is sure are going to strike again. ..read more »
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The Palermo Shooting
(2008)
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Dennis Hopper, Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Director: Wim Wenders
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A German photographer goes to Palermo to make a clean break from his past. While in the city he meets a young woman and comes across a totally different way of life.
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from 23 members
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Don't Come Knocking
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, Gabriel Mann
Director: Wim Wenders
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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. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child ..read more »
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The Soul Of A Man
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James
Director: Wim Wenders
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Produced by Martin Scorsese and helmed by seven major film directors (including Clint Eastwood, Wim Wenders, and Charles Burnett), this seven-part collection traces the history of the blues. Beginning by discovering the earliest recorded works of the blues from the 1920s, and ending with the ..read more »
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Million Dollar Hotel
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson
Director: Wim Wenders
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Wim Wender's THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL is a well-filmed movie set in a majestic, dilapidated hotel on the outskirts of Hollywood. The opener shows Tom Tom (Jeremy Davies), the eccentric, slightly retarded, skateboard-riding narrator, wandering in slow motion at daybreak on the roof of the hotel, as ..read more »
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from 1,476 member
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Buena Vista Social Club
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Luis Barzaga, Ry Cooder, Ibrahim Ferrer
Director: Wim Wenders
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No one can recall exactly where the Buena Vista Social Club once stood in pre- revolutionary Havana but Wim Wender's documentary of a dozen legendary musicians resurrects the magnificent music of the era. Guitarist Ry Cooder assembled the aging singers and musicians for a series of recording ..read more »
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A Trick of the Light
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Wim Wenders, Nadine Buettner, Lucie Hurtgen-Skladanowsky
Director: Wim Wenders
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Weaving together docu-drama, fictional re-enactment and experimental photography, the film is a powerful and beautifully crafted exploration into the early days of German cinema and tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers who invented the Bioskop, the forerunner of the film projector.
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from 101 members
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Lisbon Story
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Patrick Bauchau, Rüdiger Vogler, Manoel de Oliveira
Director: Wim Wenders
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When progress on his experimental silent movie comes to a screeching halt, filmmaker Friedrich Monroe (Patrick Bauchau) reaches out to his friend and soundman, Phillip Winter (Rüdiger Vogler), for help, hoping that his microphones can capture sounds that will awaken his imagery. Written and ..read more »
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A Notebook on Cities and Clothes
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Wim Wenders, Yohji Yamamoto, Nastassja Kiniski
Director: Wim Wenders
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Wenders meets renowned Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto to talk about their ideas on the creative process and to ponder on the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age.
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from 102 members
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Wings of Desire
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Nastassja Kiniski, Harry Dean Stanton, Dennis Hopper
Director: Wim Wenders
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Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are angels who watch over the city of Berlin. They don't have harps or wings (well, they usually don't have wings) and they prefer overcoats to gossamer gowns. But they can travel unseen through the city, listening to people's thoughts, watching their ..read more »
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from 6,037 members
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Wings of Desire - Blu-ray
(1987)
Starring: Nastassja Kiniski, Harry Dean Stanton, Dennis Hopper
Director: Wim Wenders
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The sky over Wenders' war-scarred Berlin is full of gentle, trenchcoated angels who listen to the tortured thoughts of mortals and try to comfort them. One of the angels wishes to become mortal after falling in love with a beautiful trapeze artist. Peter Falk, as himself, assists in the ..read more »
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Tokyo-Ga
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Werner Herzog, Yuuharu Atsuta
Director: Wim Wenders
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Having been moved by the work of acclaimed director Yasujiro Ozu, Wenders travels to Japan to search out the Tokyo he has seen in his films, discovering along the way how the country is losing its identity and culture to Americanisation.
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Paris, Texas
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Harry Dean Stanton
Director: Wim Wenders
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Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, Wim Wenders's PARIS, TEXAS tells the haunting story of an amnesiac (Harry Dean Stanton) and his struggle to rebuild his shattered life. Featuring a story by Sam Shepard and a renowned score by Ry Cooder, the film also stars Nastassja ..read more »
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Room 666
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Chantal Akerman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Maroun Bagdadi
Director: Wim Wenders
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During the Cannes Film Festival of 1982 Wenders persuades a number of film directors to lock themselves in a hotel room, switch on the camera and ponder on the question "What is the future of cinema?".
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The State of Things
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Alexandra Auder, Allen Garfield, Camila Mora-Scheihing
Director: Wim Wenders
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"The State of Things" is a 1982 road movie directed by Wim Wenders. It tells the story of a film director travelling from Portugal to Los Angeles in search of his missing producer. The soundtrack includes original music from Jim Jarmusch, Jürgen Knieper, as well as tracks from Joe Ely, X and The ..read more »
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Nick's Film - Lightning Over Water
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Wim Wenders, Gerry Bamman, Nicholas Ray
Director: Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray
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Director Nicholas Ray is diagnosed with cancer and is determined to complete his final film before his untimely demise. Wim Wenders follows his quest and in this moving film charts the death of a rare talent. The film features an outstanding soundtrack which adds to the impact.
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The American Friend
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Nicholas Ray
Director: Wim Wenders
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Wim Wenders' mines Dennis Hopper's real-life experience as a painter and collector in this existential take on the American gangster film based on a Patricia Highsmith novel featuring the notoriously sociopathic Tom Ripley. Hopper stars as the eponymous American, currently a middleman selling the ..read more »
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Kings of the Road aka In The Course of Time
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Rudiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Keuzer
Director: Wim Wenders
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A travelling projection-equipment mechanic travels in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out film-theatres meets up with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel together.
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Alice in the Cities
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Rudiger Volger, Yella Rottlander, Elisabeth Keuzer
Director: Wim Wenders
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German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer's block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost ..read more »
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Wim Wenders Collection
(10 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Nastassja Kiniski, Harry Dean Stanton, Dennis Hopper
Director: Wim Wenders
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Best known for such international hits as Wings Of Desire, Paris, Texas and the Oscar®-nominated Buena Vista Social Club, Wim Wenders remains one of the most unique and important directors in the world today. In these 10 acclaimed feature films and documentaries - including several available for ..read more »
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Wim Wenders facts
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...Wim Wenders as a European looking in on America captures the essence of it that captivates the imagination of so many foreigners; the landscape, the andering nature of the...
