In Wim Wenders’ 1984 film, Paris, Texas, we find its theme of loneliness harboured in Travis Henderson, but very much so in the film’s imagery, eloquently captured by Dutch cinematographer, Robby Müller, “When I choose to work on a film, the most important thing to me is that it is about human feelings. I try to work with directors who want their films to touch the audience.” And his imagery does just that in Paris, Texas. Müller’s shots range from vast and spacious Texas deserts, to the quiet suburbs
Film Report: Wings of Desire (1987) Wings of Desire (1987), by Wim Wenders is a fantastical Franco-German romantic film that depicts the lives of those who populated Berlin during the time of Franco and the Berlin Wall that separated West and East Germany. In the film, reality is separated into two dimensions in which humans and angels are isolated from each other and exist on separate planes of existence. The angels gaze over the inhabitance of Berlin and attempt to comfort people in distress;
German Quarterly 64.1. (1991): 46-54. Web. 19 Mar 2012. JSTOR MacKay, L.A. "Antigone, Coriolanus and Hegel." Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 93 (1962): 166-174. Web. 19 Mar 2012. JSTOR Wings of Desire. Dir.Wim Wenders. Basis-Film-Verleih & Orion Classics. 1987. Film.
The Master vs. The Student: Antonioni and Coppola Michelangelo Antonioni initiated a shift in Italian film in the 1950s. He kept some aspects of Italian Neorealism but then moved away into the world of the art film. With Blow-up, which was made possible by a deal MGM for a series of films in English, he takes a meandering, odd storyline and places it in trendy, ?swinging? London (Thompson & Bordwell, 426-7). He further reinforces the distance between the diegetic world of the film and the
The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart The Dice Man written by Luke Rhinehart is an incredibly thought challenging and intentionally provocative piece that knows no bounds and sought to cover every aspect of the human psyche. The exploratory nature of this book transverse across subjects that most novels and authors would dare not touch. Rape, murder, sexual experimentation, racism, drug use, adultery and senseless blasphemy. The Dice Man covers them all, and when presented with the title quote “This
James William Guercio’s Electra Glide In Blue & Wim Wenders’ The American Friend are two films that were released in the 1970’s. These films are representations of The American New Wave of cinema, also known as post-classical Hollywood. While it is clear these two films have their differences, they also have many similarities. Both come out of the same era but seem to have very different influences, which include Classic Hollywood as well as The French New Wave. Both films follow the New American
Doubling Reality: Artifice and Self-Reflexivity in Non-Fiction Film The non-fiction film is the original creation at the crossroad between cinema and authenticity. It is traditionally considered to be the truest of any art form by focusing on perceived reality, whereas fictional narratives necessarily fabricate conscious experiences for the application of style and meaning. Documentary films have a considerably more complex signification than fictional works because they propose the viewer’s
interests. In so much as these groups were marginalized in society, the clubs provided ... ... middle of paper ... ...at the world can benefit from the many unique facets of this “rich” culture. Works Cited Buena Vista Social Club. Dir. Wim Wenders. Prod. Ry Cooder. Arte, Road Movies Filmproduktion, Kintop Pictures, Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC), Channel Four Films. 1998. Chasteen, J.C. (2006). Born in blood & fire. (2nd ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Company
This essay will discuss and analyse how far the album Buena Vista Social Club can be considered a great work, paying particular attention to the music on the album, the recording process and the impact it had on the country of Cuba and the Cuban public. Before the album was released, in 1989 the president of Cuba at the time Fidel Castro declared The Special Period which was a euphemism for the economic crisis that was happening at Cuba at the time. The Special Period was declared mainly because
Bosnian film and theatre director, he had the responsibility to revitalize the city’s cosmopolitan style of living. Thankfully, he had external assistance to guide him along the way and make this festival a success. Renowned German film director, Wim Wenders supplied most of his films to the film festival. His movie, Until the End of the World was the opening movie for the festival and gave the film festival its theme “Beyond the End of the World”. In addition to sending his cinematic masterpiece, he
The Dialectic of Desire in the Films of Nicholas Ray Nicholas Ray's films frequently address a competition between a 'father' and 'son' (whether literal or figurative filial relationship). More importantly, Ray has an ideological approach to these struggles. In his films, homosocial struggles are always supplanted by Ray's desired outcome of an idealized heterosexual coupling. That is, the threat of prolonged homosocial desire between his characters is usually eradicated by the death of one