Wim Wenders
1945-08-14 ( 79 years old ) in Düsseldorf, Germany

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker and playwright, who is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among the honors he has received are prizes from the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals. He has also received a BAFTA Award and been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Grammy Award. Wenders made his feature film debut with Summer in the City (1970). He earned critical acclaim for directing the films Alice in the Cities (1974), The Wrong Move (1975), and Kings of the Road (1976), later known as the Road Movie trilogy. Wenders won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction and the Palme d'Or for Paris, Texas (1984) and the Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award for Wings of Desire (1987). His other notable films include The American Friend (1977), Faraway, So Close! (1993), and Perfect Days (2023). Wenders has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), Pina (2011), and The Salt of the Earth (2014). He received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for Willie Nelson at the Teatro (1998). He is also known for directing the documentaries Tokyo-Ga (1985), The Soul of a Man (2003), and Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018). Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy since 1996 and won an Honorary Golden Bear in 2015. He is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. He is considered an auteur director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wim Wenders, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Was Ist Kino ? 2025-03-12
Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days' 2024-07-16
Room 999 2023-10-05
Cannes Uncut 2023-06-12
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer 2022-10-27
CAN and Me 2022-09-28
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary 2022-09-25
From Our Side 2022-09-03
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors 2022-09-01
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory 2022-08-12
Die 2050er - Everything will change 2022-07-14
Why Are We (Not) Creative? 2021-10-20
Now 2021-08-26
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner 2021-02-24
High Maintenance 2020-12-12
Good Morning, the Wind Blows 2020-12-10
Wim Wenders, Desperado 2020-07-16
Veränderung 2020-04-30
Zeroville 2019-09-19
Paul Auster: What If 2019-02-12
Beyond the Bolex 2018-11-08
Living the Light: Robby Müller 2018-09-20
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word 2018-05-18
Plankton Salesmen 2017-10-29
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov 2017-04-06
Along for the Ride 2016-11-03
Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life 2016-09-11
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider 2016-06-29
Three for the Road 2016-05-31
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain 2015-08-25
French Cinema Mon Amour 2015-07-06
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany 2015-07-03
The Legend of the Palme d'Or 2015-05-20
Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen 2015-02-13
Restoring Time 2015-02-03
The Salt of the Earth 2014-08-29
Henri Langlois vu par... 2014-07-27
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction 2013-09-11
A Fuller Life 2013-08-28
Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas 2012-10-10
Close Up 2012-09-30
BAM150 2012-04-27
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard 2011-10-27
Hitler in Hollywood 2011-05-04
Zwischen den Zeiten 2011-05-01
Viaggio in Bergmania 2011-04-16
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter 2011-04-07
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland 2011-02-11
Snowblind 2010-11-11
Cronología 2010-05-01
What Do You Know About Me 2009-10-16
Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada 2008-10-29
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte 2008-07-03
Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years 2008-03-01
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers 2008-02-11
Back to Room 666 2008-02-02
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years 2008-01-24
Cannes: All Access 2007-10-27
The Art of Football from A to Z 2006-05-25
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski 2005-02-27
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen 2004-09-04
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments 2004-05-01
La torcedura 2004-01-01
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us 2003-07-01
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) 2003-02-10
Fassbinder in Hollywood 2002-07-02
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet 2002-05-18
Janela da Alma 2001-10-20
The Million Dollar Hotel 2000-02-09
FreeDogme 2000-01-01
Alekan le magnifique 1998-12-31
Tango Berlin 1997-01-01
Love in Hollywood 1996-12-08
A Trick of the Light 1995-11-28
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive 1995-09-02
The Night of the Filmmakers 1995-02-12
Kleiner Mann ganz groß 1994-11-11
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait 1994-01-01
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring 1993-12-30
Talking with Ozu 1993-11-27
Without Me 1993-08-10
Dream Island 1991-05-01
Wim Wenders in Tokyo 1990-12-31
Pictures of Europe 1990-04-25
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas' 1990-04-25
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders 1990-04-25
Notebook on Cities and Clothes 1989-12-20
The Heart and the Legs 1989-03-01
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker 1989-02-18
Alekan, la lumière 1988-08-04
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long 1987-11-13
King Kongs Faust 1985-04-26
Report from Hollywood 1985-01-01
Tausend Augen 1984-05-13
Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act 1983-01-01
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982 1982-09-15
Cinématon XXII 1982-06-07
Room 666 1982-06-01
The State of Things 1982-03-22
Lightning Over Water 1980-10-01
Cinématon 1978-12-20
Long Shot 1978-11-17
The American Friend 1977-06-24
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema 1976-12-02
Kings of the Road 1976-03-04
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick 1975-11-05
Wrong Move 1975-03-14
Alice in the Cities 1974-05-17
Summer in the City 1972-06-02
3 American LPs 1969-11-17
Love and So Forth 1968-09-29
Candy Man 1968-05-01
Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders

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