Wim Wenders

...let's keep that a dirty secret that I won't share with the others. But seriously, before someone less forgiving finds that out, watch Wim Wenders' masterpiece. Criterion's transfer is perfect and as usual they load the disc all the way up.

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...and even, then one constantly finds his or herself at a loss for the appropriate adjectives. The brainchild of German auteur Wim Wenders, 1987's Wings Of Desire takes us to a different plane of existence - one that is inhabited by angels.

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...in a house lifted by balloons. This week's platinum picks: Disney/Pixar's Up, Major League Baseball's World Series Film Collection and Wim Wenders' greatest film, Wings of Desire. * * *1/2 out of four, 2009, Disney/Pixar, PG, $30/$40...

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...auteurs whose films might not have been seen in the United States without his advocacy: Bergman, Fellini, Kurosawa, Schlondorff, Truffaut, Wenders? Or The Intruder, The Wild Angels and The Trip -- three films that took on tough, important,...

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...native Germany. In the early ’80s, other young directors at the renowned University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) looked to Wim Wenders or Rainer Werner Fassbinder for inspiration. Emmerich, who started out as a production...

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...in the perceived alienation of modern Germany, exemplified by Kraftwerk's industrial dance rhythms and the existential road movies of Wim Wenders. From David Bowie to suburban teenagers, a generation of British youth longed to pose beside the...

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...historical romance with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh; Costa-Gavras' "Z," a thriller of political assassination in Greece; and Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire," an incandescent fantasy of angels, love and philosophy. All are essential to a...

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...that marks Darwin's 200th birthday and the publication of his seminal treatise on evolution in 1859. There's also a new edition of Wim Wenders' lyrical tale of a modern-day angel, an exploration of daily life among ancient pyramid...

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...new addiction quite ably. "Wings Of Desire" This is the other big title for me today, Criterion's BluRay release of this haunting Wim Wenders fable about an angel who wants to experience life as a human. These days, the arthouse and the...

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...swears he didn't Scott-ify the sets. "The MTA control room [really] looks like NASA. '' ( Finally, a scholarly presentation for Wim Wenders's lyrical, spiritual look at heavenly empathy, the incessant worries of man, and the yearning of angel...

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