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91 minutes. Introduction by cinematographer Ed Lachman. Enjoy a special 2-for-1 double feature of Lightning Over Water and The Lusty Men on February 2! Present your Lighting Over Water ticket at the box office on Feb. 2 to redeem a free ticket for The Lusty Men. Subject to availability, no refunds for previously-purchased tickets.
Summary. The film is a collaboration between Wenders and Ray to document Ray's last days due to terminal cancer in 1979. The film is partially an homage to Ray who had a strong influence on Wenders' work, and partially an investigation on life and death.
- $700,000 (estimated)
- Ronee Blakley
- 11 September 1980
- Pierre Cottrell, Chris Sievernich [de], Wim Wenders
Synopsis. Director ‘Nicholas Ray’ is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. 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 ...
- (1.5K)
- Basis-Film-Verleih Gmbh
- Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray
Sep 10, 2012 · Wenders, at an interim impasse on the protracted production of Hammett, constantly doubting his own methods and motives, unsettled by his own gestures of tribute. Two exiles trying to help each ...
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.
