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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
English. German. Budget. $700,000 (estimated) 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.
- $700,000 (estimated)
- Ronee Blakley
- 11 September 1980
- Pierre Cottrell, Chris Sievernich [de], Wim Wenders
Related films. A collaboration between Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray to document Ray’s last days due to terminal cancer in 1979. The film is partially a homage to Ray who had a strong influence on Wenders’ work, and partially an investigation on life and death.
Wim Wenders launched Lightning Over Water to give his ailing mentor Nicholas Ray a last chance at making a movie—not only as a co-director, but as star and subject. The result is at once scrappy and tremendously moving, alternating between glorious 35mm shots of a vanished downtown Manhattan and all-too-raw video footage of the great auteur.
Oct 1, 1980 · Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for Lightning Over Water (1980) - Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray on AllMovie - Lightning Over Water is a penetrating documentary…
A collaboration between Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray to document Ray’s last days due to terminal cancer in 1979. The film is partially a homage to Ray who had a strong influence on Wenders’ work, and partially an investigation on life and death.
Lightning over Water is the strangest link in a long chain stretching through Bigger than Life (1956) and The Lusty Men, of films in which the elder generation clings to its dominion over the younger one. This generational conflict is as much the subject as the author of Lightning over Water. Whereas Wenders, on a limited break from his ...
