San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) If Samuel Fuller was an "authentic American primitive," as Andrew Sarris wrote, that may explain why he caught the eye of the French New Wave directors. Fuller was certainly not given to airs, onscreen or off - he had worked as a...
incomunidade (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
A Associação Extrapolar convida: Visturas Wim Wenders - Texas Drive 14 Dezembro 2009, 21h30m Ateneo R. Passos Manuel Porto (entrada livre)
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
German director Werner Herzog has been making movies for 40 years, and at this point in his career, the legend very nearly eclipses the man. Herzog eating his shoe on a bet with Errol Morris, rescuing Joaquin Phoenix from an overturned car, and continuing an on-air interview after getting shot with an air rifle (“It was not a significant bullet”)—these are just some of the real-life...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
DVD Video Review: Wim Wenders revisits Lisbon and meets Manoel de Oliviera in his 1995 film, a light and enteraining attempt to explore and define cinema. Noel Megahey reviews.
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The pair of angels in Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire have been here forever--before Berlin and before the living. They spend their days observing the people of the divided city, reading their thoughts and instilling a sense of optimism where need be. They behave as one would expect angels to (providing, of course, one believes): as a guardian who, with just his palm, can provide sanguinity in the...
Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
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) | 16/11/2009
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) | 13/11/2009
Wim Wenders’ masterful creation gets the much-needed Criterion Collection.
USA Today (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
This week's platinum picks: Disney/Pixar's Up, Major League Baseball's World Series Film Collection and Wim Wenders' greatest ...
Meltingpod (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
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) | 12/11/2009
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) | 09/11/2009
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) | 09/11/2009
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,...
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