On film / Wim Wenders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wenders, Wim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wenders, Wim, 1945-.

Wenders, Wim.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture producers and directors--Germany--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Germany.

Local Subjects:

Wenders, Wim, 1945-.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 493 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Wim Wenders, on film

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Faber and Faber, 2001.

Summary:

Wim Wenders' body of work is among the most formidable in modern cinema: Alice in the Cities; Kings of the Road; The American Friend; Paris, Texas; Wings of Desire; Far Away So Close! ... And Wenders has always written about film with the same passion that he has invested in his own productions.

This volume collects three previously published books of Wenders' essays, interviews and ruminations: Emotion Pictures, The Logic of Images and The Act of Seeing. The writings range from the late sixties to the mid-nineties. Therein, Wenders discusses his development as a film-maker, from the moment he first picked up a camera aged twelve, through a searching self-analysis of the creative process behind each of his major films.

He also offers a broader analysis of his guiding passions -- rock'n'roll and avant-garde cinema, architecture and fashion, questions of German identity, and the influence of America, whose open roads have long inspired him. As always, images -- their fascination, and the danger inherent in this fascination -- are his central concern. A cinephile who has embraced new video technology, Wenders is acutely conscious of the latest debates about what images can mean in a cultural saturated with visual stimuli.

Contents:

Emotion Pictures: Reflections on the Cinema

No 'exprmnts': filming in one shot only

thoughts on 'Exprmntl 4' 5

PanAm makes the big flight 8

Repertoire: showing and seeing, places and people, showdowns... 9

Silly asses, irritations 12

One Plus One 14

Lydia 19

Terror of the outlaws 22

I'm movin' on (BMI 2:50) 24

Three rivals: The Tall Men 25

From dream to nightmare: the terrifying Western Once Upon a Time in the West 28

Easy Rider: a film like its title 30

Critical calendar 37

Despising what you sell 41

Red Sun: on Rudolf Thome's film Rote Sonne 43

Tired of waiting 45

Reunion

blanche neige: Francois Truffaut's La Sirene du Mississippi 46

Re: Bad Day at Black Rock 48

The 10th Kinks LP-the 51st Alfred Hitchcock film-the 4th Creedence Clearwater Revival LP-the 3rd Harvey Mandel LP 51

Hitchcock in the cutting-room 53

Emotion pictures: slowly rockin' on 55

Van Morrison 58

L'Enfant sauvage 61

Monterey Pop 68

A non-existent genre 70

New hat, same old scars: Eddie Constantine 75

The Big TNT Show 83

On television: Furchtlosen Flieger (The Fearless Fliers) 85

Nashville: a film that teaches you to see and hear 88

That's entertainment: Hitler 99

Crazy about films: the work of the projectionist Ladwig 107

Death is no solution: the German film director Fritz Lang 111

The men in the rodeo arena: Lusty 116

The American Dream 123

The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations

Why do you make films? 159

Time sequences, continuity of movement: Summer in the City and The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty 161

The Scarlet Letter 165

The heroes are the others: False Movement 167

Kings of the Road 171

The American Friend 176

Reverse angle: New York City, March 1982 179

Chambre 666 182

Film thieves 191

Goodbye to the booming voice of the old cinema: The State of Things 197

Impossible stories 210

Tokyo-Ga 219

Like flying blind without instruments: on the turning point in Paris, Texas 225

The growth of a small dependency 227

An attempted description of an indescribable film: from the first treatment for Wings of Desire 232

For (not about) Ingmar Bergman 243

A history of imaginary films 245

Le Souffle de l'Ange 248

The Act of Seeing: Essays and Conversations

To the End of the World: very first treatment for a film project 281

Travelling in time 285

The act of seeing 297

Perceiving movement 307

The truth of images 324

The dubious revolution 350

High definition 355

Notebook on Clothes and Cities: English commentary 363

The urban landscape from the point of view of images 375

Find myself a city to live in 384

He paints his socks off 405

Winter Marchen 408

Eye colours 411

A step ahead of the times 413

For the city that dreams 425

Not alone in a big house 427

On the future of European cinema 430

Talk about Germany 434

On painters, montage and dustbins 447

'I'm at home nowhere' 454

King of Comedy 457

Christ, Rainer 460

On making it up as you go along 465

Writing a screenplay is the worst 473

On walls and spaces 482.

ISBN:

0571207189

OCLC:

45828344