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German Love Triangle Squares off at Venice Film Festival (Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:22:00 GMT

A tragic story of love, money and death that is set in the poor, north-eastern part of Germany, "Jerichow" shines with brilliant acting, especially by Nina Hoss, who has worked with Petzold before. How will the Venice jury, led by German filmmaker Wim Wenders, receive this intimate study of calculation, passion and longing? The film opens as Thomas (Benno Fuermann), an angular, laconic ex-soldier...

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Hollywood glamour opens 65th Venice Film Festival (Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:00:00 GMT

... Petzold is the first German movie to be screened in Venice since 2004. Veteran German director Wim Wenders is the president of the jury.

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Drunkblogging the Convention (Fables of the reconstruction)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:10:51 GMT

... Patrick didn't make much of an impression. Brian Schweitzer looks like a used car salesman in a Wim Wenders movie. Or a preacher in a Coen brothers movie. Can't decide.

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George Clooney - Celebs Arrive For Venice Film Festival (Contactmusic Ltd)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:25:09 GMT

... Winger, and French actress Juliette Binoche. The seven-member jury is headed by German filmmaker Wim Wenders.

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Faraway, So Close! (Moon in the Gutter)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:47:00 GMT

The final post in my look at Faraway, So Close! at Nostalgia Kinky . Wim Wenders’ follow-up feature to his legendary Wings of Desire is simultaneously one of his most flawed productions and most resonate. Gone is the moody perfection that inhabited so much of his early career, and in its place in Faraway, So Close! is a sprawling over-ambitiousness that is as beautiful as it is frustrating and...

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Faraway, So Close! (1993) (Nostalgia Kinky)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:23:00 GMT

Wim Wenders’ follow-up feature to his legendary Wings of Desire is simultaneously one of his most flawed productions and most resonate. Gone is the moody perfection that inhabited so much of his early career, and in its place in Faraway, So Close! is a sprawling over-ambitiousness that is as beautiful as it is frustrating and as poignant as it is flawed. Of the three films Nastassja Kinski made...

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Italian cinema flexes its muscles in Venice (The Telegraph)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:12:39 GMT

... suggests it could hold its own at the Biennale's art exhibition on Venice's mainland. Director Wim Wenders chairs the film jury, which includes British visual artist Douglas Gordon and Italian actress Valeria Golino. Significantly, the festival's lifetime achievement award this year goes to an Italian, director Ermanno Olmi.Here are some of the likely highlights:1 Burn After ReadingThe opening...

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Sheryl Crow, Matt Damon, Golshifteh Farahani (International Herald Tribune)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:30:45 GMT

... movie on poverty called "8," made of eight segments by directors including Jane Campion and Wim Wenders will make its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival this year, organizers have announced. Gael García Bernal, Gus Van Sant, Mira Nair, Jan Kounen, Abderrahmane Sissako and Gaspar Noé are also among the movie's directors. The festival's third edition, running Oct. 22-31, will also present...

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UN-backed film to premiere at Rome film fest (KansasCity.com)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:54:00 GMT

A U.N.-backed movie on poverty made of eight segments by directors including Jane Campion and Wim Wenders will make its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival later this year, organizers said Wednesday.

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UN-backed film to premiere at Rome film fest (Miami Herald)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:52:30 GMT

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Stay as You Are Screenshots Project Part 3 (Nostalgia Kinky)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:12:00 GMT

CELEBRATING THE CAREER OF NASTASSJA KINSKIAbout Me Jeremy Richey Listen To Some Songs From Nastassja's SoundtracksMY OTHER PAGESMy Friday Screentest at DVD PanacheCURRENT FILM: FARAWAY SO CLOSE What Are Your Favorite Nastassja Kinski Films (1975-1980)?What Are Your Favorite Nastassja Films (1980-1984)MY PERSONAL NASTASSJA KINSKI TOP TEN 1. PARIS, TEXASDirected By Wim Wenders 2. MOON IN THE GUTTERDirected...

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Brad Silberling takes Capone on a little trip to the LAND OF THE LOST!! (Ain't it Cool News)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:46:18 GMT

... of CASPER with Christina Ricci, and followed that up with CITY OF ANGELS, a risky remake of Wim Wenders' beloved (especially by me) WINGS OF DEISRE, considered by many to be one of the most beautiful and literate love stories of all time. And you know what? CITY OF ANGELS isn't too bad.Silberling followed that up with his deeply personal MOONLIGHT MILE, which he also wrote, inspired by the...

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Grinderman, Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Portishead, Will Oldham, Wim Wenders: Lou Reed, Portishead, Will Oldham all feature in new Wim Wenders film (prefixmag.com)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:16:19 GMT

When a new Wim Wenders film surfaces there’s usually a guarantee that he’ll have rounded up some maverick musical talents ...

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Filmfest Hamburg Announces First Films (openPR.com Newsfeed)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:41:00 GMT

... and Michael Moore, arthouse filmmakers such as Aki Kaurismäki, Jim Jarmusch, Peter Greenaway and Wim Wenders, Dogma-founder Lars von Trier and German directors such as Fatih Akin, Ayse Polat and Oliver Hirschbiegel represent the festival’s entire – and often controversial – artistic plenitude.In 2008, Filmfest Hamburg will launch the following sections: Agenda 08, Nordlichter (‘Northern...

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films you have seen not so recently and would request help in identifying (Dissensus)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:23:11 GMT

we watched wim wenders wings of desire last night. good stuff. but i thought it was going to be something else. there's a film set mostly in heaven. at the end our two protagonists are allowed to return to earth. one of the returnees has been a famous actor and in the very last scene the...

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List Of Top 25 Documentaries (Idle Musings)

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:10:51 GMT

... and Zana Briski 19. Titicut Follies (1967), Frederick Wiseman 20. Buena Vista Social Club (1999), Wim Wenders 21. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), Michael Moore 22. Winged Migration (2002), Jacques Perrin 23. Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog 24. Night and Fog (1955), Alain Resnais 25. Woodstock (1970), Michael Wadleigh [Found via Kottke ]

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Directors Focus: RW Fassbinder, Bristol (The Guardian)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:00:41 GMT

Talk of German New Wave Cinema tends to turn rather quickly to the work of its better known alumni, Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders. But, as shown in this insightful season, the most prolific, creatively dangerous and provocative was Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Influenced by Brecht and Godard, Fassbinder was also the product of absent parents and a tragic childhood lived in the aftermath of the...

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Locarno Film Festival honorees (Variety.com)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:24:50 GMT

... Bertolucci, Joe Dante, Daniel Schmid, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi, Terry Gilliam, Abbas Kiarostami, Wim Wenders, Alexander Sokurov and, in 2007, Hou Hsiao Hsien.The Raimondo Rezzonico Prize: Christine VachonChristine Vachon -- whose name is practically synonymous with independent film -- is slated for the producer award, the Raimondo Rezzonico Prize. Her banner Killer Films has backed several...

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NEW LOOK AT BLIND DATE (New York Post)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:37:48 GMT

Those strange vistas are photographed in creamy black and white by Robert Murphy, who finds enough dilapidated wonder to fill three Wim Wenders films as the pair quietly graze downtown's minimal offerings. Their chosen transportation, the uncrowded LA subway, is appropriately cavernous, demonstrating the woebegone difficulty of making a personal connection in a city that keeps everyone...

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Paris, Texas (Channel 4)

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:54:50 GMT

Harry Dean Stanton is the traumatised wanderer in Wim Wenders' melancholic, Palme d'Or-winning masterpiece. Read our review Rating:5

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