Volker Schlöndorff
Search results
- Jeremy Urquhart
- Feature Writer/Senior List Writer
- 'Until the End of the World' (1991) Starring: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Sam Neill. Wim Wenders made a large-scale and ambitious road movie with Kings of the Road, but that one pales in comparison - when it comes to scope and ambition - to 1991’s Until the End of the World.
- 'Perfect Days' (2023) Starring: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano. As mentioned before, Wim Wenders has remained active as a filmmaker into the 2020s, with Perfect Days arguably being up there with some of the best releases of the decade so far.
- 'Paris, Texas' (1984) Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell. Another slow-paced yet absorbing movie about travel (perhaps enough to be labeled as another Wim Wenders road movie), Paris, Texas is one of the most beloved films by the director (and a favorite of director Akira Kurosawa).
- 'Wings of Desire' (1987) Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander. Wings of Desire is a fantastic fantasy film, and also one that has a good deal of bittersweet romance throughout.
His other notable films include The American Friend (1977), Faraway, So Close! (1993), and Perfect Days (2023). [2] [3] Wenders has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), Pina (2011), and The Salt of the Earth (2014).
- Lightning Over Water
- Land of Plenty
- Tokyo-Ga
- The Wrong Move
- Until The End of The World
- Pina
- Wings of Desire
- Kings of The Road
- Alice in The Cities
- Paris, Texas
Nicholas Ray was a cinematic outlaw: a rule-breaker and transgressive thinker who brought a defiantly unconventional touch to genres such as the American Western (Johnny Guitar), the noir (the gritty and underrated They Live By Night), and the youth-gone-wrong melodrama (Rebel Without A Cause, of course). Wenders was tremendously fond of Ray (the I...
Wim plays the lonely man’s post-9/11 blues in the jittery and despairing Land Of Plenty, a tone poem of regret and loss that stars the great Michelle Williams as a grown daughter of American missionaries who ends up tracking down her uncle (John Diehl), a paranoid military veteran who drives around in a self-styled surveillance van, consumed with s...
Wim Wenders and prolific and legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu have more than a bit in common as storytellers: both are humanists, and both search for sincere spiritual inquiry in the lives of everyday human beings. Tokyo-Ga is a cinephile’s delight: Wenders’ characteristically intimate and impressionistic ode to a fellow searcher. Wenders ...
Few movies about the life of a writer are as unflinchingly honest in their anomie as Wenders’ The Wrong Move, the transfixing second chapter in the director's Road Movie Trilogy. More than most artists, Wenders understands that the journey is the destination, and The Wrong Move is 103 minutes spent in pursuit of affirming that notion. German film a...
A grandiose, messy, unabashedly romantic reverie that washes over the viewer like a sun-kissed psychedelic daydream, Until The End Of The World is one of Wim’s biggest swings: a dystopian vision of the ultimate road journey where the director’s cut clocks in at just under five hours. Featuring some of the most magnificent and otherworldly visual co...
Pina, the explosive dance documentary that Wenders directed about fearless and groundbreaking dance choreographer Pina Bausch, is a rush of pure cinematic sensation. It is a film whose hallucinatory visuals and barnstorming musical arrangements act as spectacles that the viewer simply surrenders to – as such, it is a work that resists pedantic acad...
If you were only ever able to see one Wim Wenders film in your lifetime – and we here at Collider truly hope that’s not the case for you, our reader – thenWings of Desire would be as solid a pick as any film on this list. This is the stark, unapologetically fantastical tale of two angels who dwell upon the towers and building tops over Berlin, and ...
In spite of being an epic film in terms of length, the soul-baring Kings of the Road feels at once like the Final Boss of Wenders’ Road Movie Trilogy, and also one of the most unvarnished and stripped-down things he’s ever made. There is an almost Bressonian simplicity in the events that the film presents to us: a repairman on the road, a suicide a...
Last year’s Mike Mills-directed C’mon C’mon took more than a bit of inspiration from this wistful and endlessly charming masterpiece, the first official film in the Road Movie Trilogy and a high watermark of Wenders’ career to date. Alice doesn’t have a tidy, three-act story structure so much as the film unfolds organically in front of you: a write...
One of the most painful major films to ever see a release in America, Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas is a moral consideration of the limits of forgiveness. Harry Dean Stanton gives the performance of his career as Travis, one of Wenders’ most hopeless and tragic nomads: a haunted old man meandering without apparent purpose through the blighted badlands ...
May 18, 2021 · Wim Wenders is one of the most celebrated filmmakers today and perhaps best known for his movie, Wings of Desire. IMDb ranks his 10 best films here.
- Staff Writer
Possibly my favorite director, Wim Wenders has made about three dozen movies over the past 45+ years, and most of them are wonderful. He's the master of road movies, but he's also great in other genres and documentaries.
The dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of director Wim Wenders's favorite blues artists.
1. Paris, Texas. 1984 2h 25m R. 8.1 (120K) Rate. 81 Metascore. Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family. Director Wim Wenders Stars Harry Dean Stanton Nastassja Kinski Dean Stockwell. 2. Wings of Desire. 1987 2h 8m PG-13.
People also ask
What are the best movies directed by Wim Wenders?
Who is Wim Wenders?
Did Wim Wenders make a dance documentary?
Why did Wim Wenders abandon a film?
Who was Wim Wenders' Muse?
Does Wim Wenders still make 'perfect days'?
Related searches
Searches related to wim wenders films
best wim wenders films wim wenders films list wim wenders films ranked wim wenders films full movie
