Wings of Desire
1987
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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.
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.
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...
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).
Jan 20, 2024 · From documentaries like Buena Vista Social Club to ambitious epics like Until the End of the World, these are the best movies directed by Wim Wenders.
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.
One of the more successful and prolific filmmakers to emerge from the New German Cinema movement, iconoclastic director Wim Wenders continually walked the line between art house aesthetic and...
