Wim Wenders

arsenallegend

Recently i've started to watch his films, and these were my favourites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXGv6-GmDuM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItXjA031zs0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic_s0DDNoB8

I also loved Wrong Move, Wings of Desire and Until the end of the world. He was probably one of the best filmmakers to come out of Germany along with Herzog and Lang. His career has gone downhill sine the 90's but nearly everything he did from the 70's and 80's were great.

savina10

Wings of Desire top of my all time list. The mooood i ness !!! I even believe in THAT hand on the shoulder. Ich liebe also Peter Faulk.

arsenallegend

savina10 wrote: »

Wings of Desire top of my all time list. The mooood i ness !!! I even believe in THAT hand on the shoulder. Ich liebe also Peter Faulk.

Peter Faulk as a former angel. Nick Cave and a brillant performance from Bruno granz whats not too like .

savina10

I'm going to find the DVD right now and watch it under the super size moon. Bound to fetch a lunar/ angelic vibe....with a glass of west coast cooler. The best idea I had all day as it happens. Isn't boards great:)

Up-n-atom!

arsenallegend wrote: »

Peter Faulk as a former angel. Nick Cave and a brillant performance from Bruno granz whats not too like .

Ah, I'd forgotten all about Nick Cave in this! His sexy snake hips! And of course the amazing Bruno Ganz. Been ages since I seen this - seen Paris, Texas too but need to watch a few more of Wenders ouvre. Really want to see The American Friend with the legendary Dennis Hopper, and The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (just coz I love the name).

The Pontiac

He also made the wonderful Buena Vista Social Club concert/docu

Nolanger

Why isn't this thread a 'director debate'?

duckworth

Nolanger wrote: »

Why isn't this thread a 'director debate'?

Let's turn it into one!!


Wim Wenders is potentially my favourite director ever - Paris Texas, Kings of the Road and Wings of Desire are some of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

Kings of The Road especially just breaks my heart - it's one of those films where you know absolutely what you're seeing is great, yet you can't even explain it.

There's just something about the open road, the friendship, the music, all melding together to create something profound and perfect.

The American Friend is very good also - an early take on the Ripley novels starring the always-mental Dennis Hopper.

He also made two of my favourite documentaries ever - Buena Vista Social Club and The Soul of a Man (best film about the blues ever probably).

If he hadn't done so much work with Bono, he'd be absolutely perfect!

Nolanger

duckworth wrote: »

Let's turn it into one!!

OK then, his first film Goalie's fear of the penalty kick was one of his best. Also, Alice in the cities is very impressive. But what I don't like about Wenders is that he's too 'American' with his later films. Think some of his stuff from the last 20 years is overrated.

arsenallegend

Nolanger wrote: »

OK then, his first film Goalie's fear of the penalty kick was one of his best. Also, Alice in the cities is very impressive. But what I don't like about Wenders is that he's too 'American' with his later films. Think some of his stuff from the last 20 years is overrated.

For me after Wings of desire he went dowhill although Until The end of the World and Faraway So close have their moments both tad to go on and on. The less said about Million Dollar Hotel the better.

Nolanger

Another one I have on DVD is State of things. Really strange film about a missing film producer. He had an 'outsider' view of America which makes his stuff a bit different.