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7.0

♡ 1

Marcel Wehn Director

Wim Wenders as Self

Bruno Ganz as Self

Edda Köchl as Self

Rüdiger Vogler as Self

The early films of Wim Wenders are now regarded as landmarks of European film. Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move and Kings of the Road became foundations of the German New Wave and cemented the reputation of their director. In One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years Marcel Wehn explores the background to these films. Through personal recollection and rare home movie footage, it documents the director's early life, from experiments with his first camera, via his deviation from a career in medicine in favour of art and film, through to international recognition for the Road Trilogy. Central to these were themes that became cornerstones of all his work: national identity, the importance of personal relationships and the allure of the road. With contributions from the director and the many collaborators who helped define his vision, One Who Set Forth is a compelling account of Wim Wenders' life and work.

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

1972

6.5

♡ 4

Wim Wenders Director

Arthur Brauss as Bloch

Rüdiger Vogler as Idiot

Edda Köchl as Mädchen

Wim Wenders as Man Walking through Vienna Bus Station

Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is sent off after committing a foul during an away game. This causes him to lose his bearings, and he wanders aimlessly through the city streets and spends the night with the box-office attendant of a movie theatre.

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

1987

6.1

♡ 3

Mika Kaurismäki Director

Jim Jarmusch as Barkeeper #2

Samuel Fuller as Boss

Wim Wenders as Gas Station Attendant

Jean-Pierre Castaldi as Igor

Alex is a Finnish taxi driver in Berlin. One evening pits two men feel comfortable in his taxi with a briefcase full of money, but unfortunately for Alex's money stolen and a group of gangsters are at the nape of the two. Soon it comes to shooting, and when the two men being killed, is good advice costly for the beleaguered driver.

Robby Müller: Living the Light

2018

7.3

♡ 3

Claire Pijman Director

Wim Wenders as Self

Lars von Trier as Self

Robby Müller as Self

Steve McQueen as Self

For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijman had access to the thousands of Hi8 video diaries, pictures and Polaroids that Müller photographed while he was at work on one of the more than 70 features he shot throughout his career; often with long term collaborators such as Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier. The film intertwines these images with excerpts of his oeuvre, thus creating a fluid and cinematic continuum. In his score for Living the Light Jim Jarmusch gives this wide raging scale of life and art an additional musical voice.

Lightning Over Water

1980

6.6

♡ 4

67%

70%

Nicholas Ray Director

Wim Wenders as Self

Gerry Bamman as Self

Martin Schäfer as Self

Ronee Blakley as Self

Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.

Beyond the Bolex

2017

8.4

♡ 3

Biography

Alyssa Bolsey Director

Wim Wenders as Self

Peter Jackson as Self

Andy Warhol as Self

Gerard Malanga as Self

Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents that belonged to her great-grandfather Jacques Bolsey. Among the many boxes, she spots an old movie camera with the word "Bolex" embossed on its side and a dangling tag with the date, "1927." Entranced, she embarks on a journey to reveal how Jacques aimed to disrupt the early film industry with a motion picture camera for the masses.

The American Friend

1977

7.4

♡ 26

88%

80%

husband wife relationship

based on novel or book

Wim Wenders Director

Samuel Fuller as Der Amerikaner

Wim Wenders as Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance

Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann

Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley

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.

Alice in the Cities

1974

7.8

♡ 24

100%

amsterdam, netherlands

Drama

man

man woman relationship

new york city

Wim Wenders Director

Edda Köchl as Angela - Friend in New York

Lisa Kreuzer as Lisa van Damm

Wim Wenders as Man by Jukebox in American Cafe

Rüdiger Vogler as Philip Winter

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.

Kings of the Road

1976

7.6

♡ 6

100%

87%

german democratic republic

Drama

Wim Wenders Director

Rüdiger Vogler as Bruno Winter

Lisa Kreuzer as Pauline - Cashier

Hanns Zischler as Robert Lander

Wim Wenders as Spectator at Pauline's Theater

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.

High Maintenance

7.3

portrait of an artist

sculpture

spanish sculptor

tribute

Barak Heymann Director

Wim Wenders as Self

Yehuda Bauer as Self

Dani Karavan as Self

Konstanty Gebert as Self

A fascinating journey through the life of Israeli artist Dani Karavan, an irreverent and charismatic creator, recognized worldwide for radically transforming public space with his monumental environmental installations.

Chambre 666

1982

6.6

♡ 6