#490: WENDERS, Wim: Wings Of Desire (1987)

WENDERS, Wim (Germany)

Wings Of Desire [1987]

Spine #490
Blu-ray

Wings of Desire is one of cinema's loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts — fears, hopes, dreams — of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by the legendary Henri Alekan, is movie poetry. And it forever made the name Wim Wenders synonymous with film art.

127 minutes
Black & White/Color

Stereo

in German, English and French

1:66:1 aspect ratio

Criterion Release 2009

Director/Writers

Written by Wim Wenders and Peter Handke.

Wenders was 42 when he directed Wings of Desire.

Other Wenders films in the Collection:

#814: Alice In The Cities (1974)
#815: Wrong Move (1975)
#816: Kings Of The Road (1976)
#793: The American Friend (1977)
#501: Paris, Texas (1984)
#1007: Until The End Of The World (1991)
#866: Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
#644: Pina (2011)

The Film

Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

The Booklet

Thirty-two page booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Atkinson and writings by Handke and Wenders.

Commentary

Featuring Wenders and actor Falk.

The Angels Among Us (2003)

A documentary featuring interviews with Wenders, Falk, actors Ganz and Sander, writer Handke, and composer Jürgen Knieper.

Wim Wenders Berlin Jan. ‘87

From an episode of the French television program Cinéma cinémas, including on-set footage.

Interview

With DP Henri Alekan.

Deleted scenes and outtakes

Excerpts

From the film Alekan la lumières (1985) and Ganz and Sander’s Remembrance Film for Curt Bois (1982).

Notes and photos

By art directors Heidi and Toni Lüdi.

Trailers

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

99

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