Wim Wenders — Director (66)

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Cathedrals of Culture (2014)
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'If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?' Cathedrals of Culture offers six startling responses to this question. This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves, examining human life from the unblinking perspective of a manmade structure. Six acclaimed filmmakers bring their own visual style and artistic approach to the project. Buildings, they show us, are material manifestations of human thought and action: the Berlin Philharmonic, an icon of modernity; the National Library of Russia, a kingdom of thoughts; Halden Prison, the world’s most humane prison; the Salk Institute, a scientific monastery on the California coast; the Oslo Opera House, a futuristic symbiosis of art and life; and the Centre Pompidou, a modern culture machine. Cathedrals of Culture explores how each of these landmarks reflects our culture and guards our collective memory.

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A Trick of the Light (1995)
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★ 8.8 24 ratings
维姆·文德斯 actor: Henrick Heckmann / Wiebke Bayer …
other title: 光之幻影 / Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky …
A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema. The film tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers, the German-born duo responsible for inventing the "bioskop", an early version of the film projector.

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Submergence (2017)
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★ 5.8 25 ratings
other title: 淹没 / 爱情淹没(港) …
While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.

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The Wrong Movement (1975)
Falsche Bewegung
★ 7.6 46 ratings
维姆·文德斯 actor: 吕迪格·福格勒 / 娜塔莎·金斯基 …
other title: 错误的举动 / Falsche Bewegung …
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.

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The Miso Soup (2022)
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other title: 味噌汤 / 味增汤
該片由日本作家村上龍作品《味增湯里》改編而成。故事講述了精神分裂的美國遊客弗蘭克,在年輕的日本導遊健二的陪同下,“循著味增湯的神秘味道”,在燈紅酒綠的日本歌舞伎町犯下一系列殺人罪行。健二不但見證了殘忍血腥的連環命案,更被迫深入到弗蘭克的多重人格之中。

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The Soul of a Man (2003)
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★ 7.6 5 ratings
other title: 布鲁斯之魂 / 一个人的灵魂 …
Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of his favorite blues artists: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. Part history, part personal pilgrimage, the film tells the story of these lives in music through an extended fictional film sequence (recreations of '20s and '30s events - shot in silent-film, hand-crank style), rare archival footage, present-day documentary scenes and covers of their songs by contemporary musicians such as Shemekia Copeland, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Garland Jeffreys, Chris Thomas King, Cassandra Wilson, Nick Cave, Los Lobos, Eagle Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid, James "Blood" Ulmer, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt, Marc Ribot, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lucinda Williams and T-Bone Burnett.

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Lisbon Story (1995)
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★ 8.3 70 ratings
维姆·文德斯 actor: 吕迪格·福格勒 / 帕特里克·波查 …
other title: 里斯本的故事 / 리스본 스토리 …
Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.

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The American Friend (1977)
Der amerikanische Freund
★ 7.8 45 ratings
other title: 美国朋友 / Der amerikanische Freund …
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.

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Until the End of the World (1991)
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★ 8.4 51 ratings
维姆·文德斯 actor: 索尔维格·多马尔坦 / 奇克·奥尔特加 …
other title: 이 세상 끝까지 / 夢の果てまでも …
In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.

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Kings of the Road (1976)
Im Lauf der Zeit
★ 8.3 85 ratings
维姆·文德斯 actor: 吕迪格·福格勒 / 汉斯·齐施勒 …
other title: 시간이 흐르면 / Im Lauf der Zeit …
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.

TV

The Blues (2003)
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查尔斯·伯内特 / 克林特·伊斯特伍德 … actor: Nathaniel Lee Jr. / 埃里克·克莱普顿 …
美国公共电视台(PBS)为了庆祝“蓝调年”,以连续七天,每天将近两小时(含制作说明与相关纪录片)的大手笔,播出由导演马丁·斯科塞斯担任总监制的七部纪录片,统称为《布鲁斯——百年蓝调音乐之旅》。 Blues音乐是居住在美国的黑人在艰难困苦的生活中创造出的音乐风格。它发源于密西西比河的三角洲地带,起源于20世纪初,早期为人们劳作时的劳动号子。Blues最初主要是人声的叙述,后来才加上了乐器的伴奏,它对爵士乐、摇滚乐、乡村乐和西方音乐都有相当大的贡献。 Directed by Charles Burnett (episode "Warming by the Devil's Fire") Clint Eastwood (episode "Piano Blues") Mike Figgis (episode "Red, White and Blues") Marc Levin (episode "Godfathers and Sons") Richard Pearce (episode "The Road to Memphis") Martin Scorsese (episode "Feel Like Going Home") Wim Wenders (episode "The Soul of a Man")

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Paris, Texas (1984)
Paris, Texas
★ 8.3 631 ratings
维姆·文德斯 actor: 哈利·戴恩·斯坦通 / 萨姆·贝瑞 …
other title: 파리, 텍사스 / パリ、テキサス …
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

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Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
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★ 8.8 165 ratings
维姆·文德斯 actor: 孔拜·塞贡多 / 埃利亚季斯·奥乔亚 …
other title: 부에나 비스타 소셜 클럽 / ブエナ・ビスタ・ソシアル・クラブ …
In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group's gigs in Amsterdam and New York City's famed Carnegie Hall, with director Wim Wenders capturing not only the music -- but also the musicians' life stories.

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Pina (2011)
Pina
★ 8.7 169 ratings
Wim Wenders actor: 雷吉娜·阿德文托 / 玛洛·艾劳多 …
other title: 皮娜 / 翩娜(港) …
Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009.

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Room 666 (1982)
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★ 7.3 9 ratings
维姆·文德斯 actor: 香特尔·阿克曼 / 米开朗基罗·安东尼奥尼 …
other title: 룸 666 / Chambre 666 …
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?"