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Ernst Wilhelm " Wim " Wenders ( German: [ˈvɪm ˈvɛndɐs]; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker and playwright, who is a major figure in New German Cinema. [1] Among the honors he has received are prizes from the Cannes, Venice, and Berlin film festivals.
Since the mid-1990s, Wenders has distinguished himself as a non-fiction filmmaker, directing several highly acclaimed documentaries, most notably Buena Vista Social Club (1999) and Pina (2011), both of which brought him Oscar nominations.
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Dec 10, 2023 · Wim Wenders’s Cinema of Sincerity. The auteur behind “Anselm” and “Perfect Days” on his complicated relationship to his native Germany, a new project he’s been nursing for years, and the beauty...
Feb 10, 2024 · NPR's Scott Simon talks to the German film director Wim Wenders about his new, Oscar-nominated film. "Perfect Days" is a story about a cultured Japanese toilet cleaner in Tokyo.
Mar 1, 2024 · The German director discusses his latest Oscar-nominated film and adopting the philosophy of a Tokyo toilet cleaner. It’s been four years since the world came to a halt and life, defined by quarantines and the fear of interaction, took a turn to isolation.
Wim Wenders is an Oscar-nominated German filmmaker who was born Ernst Wilhelm Wenders on August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf, which then was located in the British Occupation Zone of what became the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany, known colloquially as West Germany until reunification).
May 23, 2024 · Wim Wenders, German film director who was one of the principal members of the New German Cinema of the 1970s. He directed fictional films and documentaries. Some of Wenders’s best-known works included Wings of Desire (1987), Buena Vista Social Club (1999), and The Salt of the Earth (2014).
Jul 4, 2022 · “Every person is a universe”: Wim Wenders on Wings of Desire. Angels listen in on the thoughts of mortals in Wim Wenders’ modern classic Wings of Desire. On its return to cinemas, we asked Wenders to cast his mind back to its unusual production in a divided Berlin.
Mar 26, 2024 · In Perfect Days, German director Wim Wenders returns to Japan to follow the life of a Hirayama, as played by veteran Japanese actor Kōji Yakusho (Shall We Dance?).
