Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
And now there’s a T-shirt to prove it. Hiney shirts at CafePress Founs in H1N1: It’s Pronounced “Hiney” Wim Wenders closing speech – I’m talking about us, Europeans! from LabforCulture Blog Closing speech by Wim Wenders, President of the European Film Academy, during the European Culture Forum. The speech was read out by EFA director Ms Döring, and is available...
hamid & company (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The Trumpet: Directors: Chen Kaige , Werner Herzog , Victor Erice , Spike Lee , Jim Jarmusch , Wim Wenders , Aki Kaurismaki . Nicolas McClintock , on the genesis of the film: "I was reading Italo Calvino's collection of lectures, Six Memos For The Next Millenium, that quoted one old Sicilian folk-story-teller saying something that jumped out at me: "Time takes no time in a story." In...
Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Wim Wenders’ masterful creation gets the much-needed Criterion Collection.
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
This week's platinum picks: Disney/Pixar's Up, Major League Baseball's World Series Film Collection and Wim Wenders' greatest ...
Meltingpod (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Each November 9th since 1989 I remember the Wall’s fall in Berlin because this town is a kind of second hometown for me and I watch at the TV with some tears in the eyes the old movies which show all these people and families who at last reunited each other; this year a lot [...]
Popdose (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The extras-rich Criterion Collection version of Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire (1987) is perfectly timed to seize the moment. The subject of the film is dividing lines—between fallible humans and the guardian angels who look after them, the living and the dead, the past and the present, real locations and movie sets, and so on. [...]
High-Def Digest: Blu-ray Disc News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Amazon has a fantastic deal on another Criterion Blu-ray. The online retailer has just reduced the price of Wim Wenders' 'Wings of Desire' to $19.99 (50% off suggested list price). Click here to check...
High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Amazon has a fantastic deal on another Criterion Blu-ray. The online retailer has just reduced the price of Wim Wenders' 'Wings of Desire' to $19.99 (50% off suggested list price). Click here to check...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
I don't remember who made me sit down and watch Wim Wenders' Buena Vista Social Club , but the moment I did, I was enamored. It wasn't so much that I loved the cinema; frankly, I remember nothing about it, even if it did earn itself an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary. I was smitten with the history and subject. Watching the film is a multi-layered experience. There's the setting -- the...
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight — Beaming and leaning Last Year at Marienbad [Alain Resnais, 1961] # I could watch this movie a million times. A lot funnier than I remembered, though I remembered it being funny, I think. Another reason to own a Blu-ray player, no doubt. I wrote a smarter, funnier response over here . City of Sadness [Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989] Not quite the emotional experience I'd expected,...
Wooster Collective (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
In commemoration of the Berlin Wall coming down on Nov 9 1989 we thought we'd share this story about John Fekner. In 1986, Fekner spent time in Berlin as part of an invitation group exhibition featuring collaborations by New York and German artists. He visited East Germany entering through Checkpoint Charlie; the visit left a strong impression on Fekner, and subsequently, the work he created while...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
While the impact of such contemporaries as Nelson Mandela on the events of the 20th century is firmly established in the public mind, the crucial role played the architect of glasnost is in danger of being overlooked At the Brandenburg Gate tomorrow evening in Berlin, one of the defining figures of the last century's history will sit down to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In celebration of Criterion's deluxe double-DVD and Blu-ray treatment of Wings of Desire , my Benten Films partner-in-crime Andrew Grant and I rewatched Wim Wenders ' 1987 masterpiece (and pored over the bonus features) to discuss the film's elusive magic and why a work so specific to East-West German tensions has aged so gracefully. Andrew reminisces about spending time in Berlin around the time...
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
On December 13, 1975, forty-two people departed for a crocodile hunt on the island of Java. Twenty-eight men, fourteen women. They rented two boats and, loaded with provisions, proceeded along a river. After reaching the place, a pool of water at the foot of a towering and sinister cliff, the crocodiles overturned their boats and they [...]
Smart Money (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
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Cat Bauer | 09/08/2008
(VENICE, ITALY) By now, you probably know that The Wrestler won the Golden Lion at La Biennele di Venezia 65. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica, otherwise known as the 65th International Venice Film Festival. If you were to translate that word by word, it would look more like The Biennial of Venice 65 Exhibit International of the Art Cinematography. To add to the confusion, La Biennale,...
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