Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. Read More »
Tag Archives: Wim Wenders
Perfect Days (2023) Wim Wenders, Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano
Hirayama works as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. He seems content with his simple life. Read More »
Hammett (1982) Wim Wenders, Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner
The novel writer Dashiell Hammett is involved in the investigation of the mysterious Read More »
Until the End of the World AKA Bis ans Ende der Welt (1991) Wim Wenders, William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Pietro Falcone
Set in 1999, a woman (Dommartin) has a car accident with some bank robbers Read More »
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1972) Wim Wenders, Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar
After letting in an easy goal, the experienced German goalkeeper, Josef Bloch, believing it is offside Read More »
Beyond the Clouds (1995) Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders, Fanny Ardant, Chiara Caselli, Irène Jacob
Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Read More »
The Scarlet Letter (1973) Wim Wenders, Senta Berger, Lou Castel, Yelena Samarina, Drama, History
In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. Read More »
Land of Plenty (2004) Wim Wenders, Michelle Williams, John Diehl, Wendell Pierce, Drama, War
The American daughter of missionaries Lana returns to Los Angeles from Palestine to work in a mission helping homeless people. Read More »
Der Himmel über Berlin / Wings of Desire (1987) Wim Wenders, Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Visible only to those like them and to human children, Damiel and Cassiel are two angels, who have existed even before humankind. Along with several other angels, they currently wander around West Berlin, generally on their own, observing and preserving life, sometimes trying to provide comfort to the troubled, although those efforts are not always successful. Among those they are currently observing are: the cast and crew of a movie – a detective story set in WWII Nazi Germany – which include a sensitive and perceptive Peter Falk; an elderly man named Homer looking for eternal peace; and the troupe of a financially failing circus, which has closed early for the season because of those financial problems. One day, Damiel tells Cassiel that he wants to become human, to feel not only the sensory aspects of physical beings, but also emotional aspects. He embarks on this thought with the full realization that there is no turning back if he decides to do so. His thoughts are largely …
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In weiter Ferne, so nah! / Faraway, So Close! (1993) Wim Wenders, Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
In Faraway, So Close! angels watch over the people of Berlin. The world weighs heavily upon these men and women. Their attachment to things diminishes their desire for the invisible. As one angel laments, “It’s so exhausting to love people who run away from us.”
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