Right you are. I just checked Wim-Winders.com, which calls itself "the only
official" Wenders site, where credit is as you say. I also realized that
I've only seen 7 of the films, which means an impending raid on the one
good video place in this benighted town.
The words are beautiful, but who wrote them hardly matters. The long
opening sequence, a sound and image montage which we discover is the stream
of human consciousnesses passing through the angel's brain, is an amazing
directorial tour de force: the first time that sound montage had been
objectified as thoroughly as Eisenstein did the visual. Impossible to turn
one's eyes away after that.
"Until the End of the World" suffers greatly from William Hurt's whiney
presence, but manages to triumph anyway. Like a lot of Wenders films it's
not until well along that one realizes what he's doing and what we as
viewers are involved in. In this case thats' a long time--the film as first
issued was three hours, the director's cut over 4. It wasn't until maybe
two hours into the latter that I got it (or it got me), but from that
perspective there wasn't a wasted moment in what had come before. More
ambitious even than "Wings...," and a very great film.
Mark
At 05:18 PM 7/2/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Just watched, a week or two ago, *Wings of Desire* at my sister's
>place in LA. It's a fine movie, but as I recall the script was credited
>to Handke and Wenders.
>
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>{ Dear Anny
>{
>{ Very envious here - Doubt it will make it here (films often don't)
>{ although you never know. Wings of Desire is one of my favourite films
>{ - beautiful script by Handke.
>{
>{ Best
>{
>{ A
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>{ >Just back from the cinema, watched a movie the lovers of blues will
>cherish:
>{ >The Soul Of a Man, by Wim Wenders, only in Europe for the time
>being, as far
>{ >as I know, here is the link:
>{ >
>{ >http://www.german-cinema.de/archive/film_view.php?film_id=988
>{
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