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Nov 23, 1984 · Lightning Over Water: Directed by Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders. With Gerry Bamman, Ronee Blakley, Pierre Cottrell, Stefan Czapsky. Wim Wenders abandons the shoot of one of his own films in order to help his friend and fellow director Nicholas Ray create his swan song before he dies.
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- Documentary
- Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders
- 1984-11-23
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Lightning Over Water, also known as Nick's Film, is a 1980 West German-Swedish documentary-drama film written, directed by and starring Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray. It centers on the last days of Ray's own life, who was already known worldwide for his 1955 classic film Rebel Without a Cause .
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Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.
