Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders at Cannes, 2002

Ernst Wilhelm ("Wim") Wenders (born August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf) is a German film director, photographer, author and producer. He received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984 for his movie Paris, Texas, and was awarded honorary doctorates at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1989 and at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium in 2005. He was awarded the Leopard of honour at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2005.

Much of the cinematography in his movies was as a result of a highly productive collaboration with cinematographer Robby Muller. He also worked with the famous writer Peter Handke, adapting his book The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty Kick for his first movie and then collaborating in one of his most famous movies: Wings of Desire.

Filmography

Year	Title	German title	Summary
1970	Summer in the City
1972	The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (USA) or The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (UK)	:de:Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter	Adaptation of a novella by Peter Handke.
1973	The Scarlett Letter	Der Scharlachrote Buchstabe	Adapted from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
1974	Alice in the Cities	Alice in den Städten	First part of Wenders' Road Movie Trilogy
1975	False Movement	Falsche Bewegung	Second part of Wenders' Road Movie Trilogy
1976	Kings of the Road	Im Lauf der Zeit	Third part of Wenders' Road Movie Trilogy
1977	The American Friend	Der Amerikanische Freund	Adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game.
1980	Lightning Over Water	Documentary about the last days of Nicholas Ray.
1982	Room 666	Chambre 666
1982	Reverse Angle	Documents his disputes with Coppola during Hammett.
1982	Hammett	Fictional story about Dashiell Hammett, American writer. Based on a novel by Joe Gores.
1982	The State of Things	Stand der Dinge
1984	Paris, Texas
1985	Tokyo-Ga
1987	Wings of Desire	Der Himmel über Berlin	Written with Peter Handke.
1989	Notebook on Cities and Clothes	Aufzeichnungen zu Kleidern und Städten
1990	Red Hot and Blue	Music video for Night and Day performed by U2.
1991	Until the End of the World	Bis ans Ende der Welt
1992	Arisha, the Bear and the Stone Ring	Arisha, der Bär und der steinerne Ring
1993	Faraway, So Close!	In weiter Ferne, so nah!	Partially a sequel to Wings of Desire.
1994	Lisbon Story	Partially a sequel to The State of Things.
1995	The Brothers Skladanowsky	Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky	Also known as A Trick of the Light
1997	The End of Violence
1998	Willie Nelson at the Teatro
1999	Buena Vista Social Club	Documentary about the Cuban musicians. Made with Ry Cooder.
2000	The Million Dollar Hotel
2002	Ode to Cologne: A Rock 'N' Roll Film	Viel passiert - Der BAP-Film
2002	Ten Minutes Older	Contributed segment "Twelve Miles to Trona."
2003	The Soul of a Man
2004	Land of Plenty
2005	Don't Come Knocking''

quote

* "Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins."
* "I consider Ozu my all time grand master"

External links

* Official Wim Wenders site
* Angels and the Modern City: Essay on Wenders' Film Wings of Desire
* Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
* filmportal.de including biography, filmography and photos
* Wenders Bibliography (via UC Berkeley)
* Wim Wenders: Image and Cultural Influence ToxicUniverse.com article by Tony Pellum
*In-depth interview about The End of Violence and the man in general
*Article about the imagery in Until the End of the World
*Naked Punch Review Interview with Wim Wenders.
*Drinks with Tony interview with Wim Wenders.

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