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"When you travel a lot, and when you love to just wander around and get lost, you can end up in the strangest spots. … I don’t know, it must be some sort of built-in radar that often directs me to places that are strangely quiet, or quietly strange.” Wim Wenders
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Art Collector Harald Falckenberg, Wim Wenders, Donata Wenders and Dirk Luckow (director of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg) photo by Thies Rätzke
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Wim Wenders bears the Honorary Ring of the city of Wuppertal. Mayor Peter Jung awarded Wim with the title on March 10 during a ceremony at the historical Stadthalle. It was also meant to be a thank you for the idea to incorporate Wuppertal into the movie Pina, Jung said. Wim Wenders was moved by the honor: "Wuppertal grew close to my heart. I owe a lot to the city."
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Dresden: US photographer James Nachtwey, and Wim Wenders in the Semper Opera. James Nachtwey was awarded with the Dresden International Peace Prize © Killig Oliver/SIPA |
Snow fell on Dresden the evening before a ceremony commemorating the city’s catastrophic destruction nearly seventy years ago. On the night of February 13, 1945, Allied bombs claimed 25,000 lives, many of them civilians. Inside the reconstructed Semperoper opera house of the Saxon capital, the atmosphere was dignified. A very warm welcome was given to the recipient of the third Dresden International Peace Prize: the photographer James Nachtwey. Mikhail Gorbachev was honored in 2010, and Daniel Barenboim the year after.
As a white shroud covered the ashes of the past, a large and often emotional audience listened to Wim Wenders’ brilliant tribute to James Nachtwey, the director’s favorite photographer along with Sebastião Salgado. One could feel in the auditorium a shared sense of civil and professional commitment to the community. source: lalettredelaphotographie.com
Click here to read the Tribute to James Nachtwey by Wim Wenders. |
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| February 26 |
Producer Gian-Piero Ringel, director Wim Wenders and his wife Donata Wenders on the Red Carpet enroute to the 84th Academy Awards ceremony at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. Pina, Wim Wenders' 3D film for the late Pina Bausch, was nominated in the category Best Documentary Feature. Although it did not win, we were all excited and proud for Pina having received the recognition of being nominated for the most coveted prize in cinema. Thank You. |
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| February 26 |
You can now purchase postcard sets and posters on www.wendersimages.com, Wim Wenders' and Donata Wenders' website which is solely dedicated to the photographic work. |
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| February |
".......A woman wearing little more than an accordion stands on stage and shouts, “Soon it will be spring again!” What an inspiring announcement. The world’s dark stage will be transformed with life and color. And so begins Pina—director Wim Wenders’ tribute to German choreographer Pina Bausch—one of the most enjoyable experiences of my life at the movies.
Buy two tickets. Bring someone who doubts that movies can surprise us anymore. Invite someone who, like me, has never appreciated modern dance, and you may see them leave the theater with more music in their steps. Bring somebody who isn’t yet excited about stereoscopic cinema; they’ll change their minds......"
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| January |
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| December 26 |
For New York's specialty filmgoers, it was a very "Pina" Christmas. According to Rentrak estimates, the Wim Wenders-directed documentary that looks at the work of dance artist Pina Bausch grossed $88,399 from three screens in New York over the 4-day holiday weekend frame, averaging a fantastic $29,466.
"Pina opened to rave reviews and we are thrilled with the numbers," a Sundance Selects rep said today. "The film will stay exclusive in NY until an expansion to top markets early in January."
source: indiewire.com |
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| December 19 |
by Anthony Lane
".......The question is, What do you get from “Pina” that you could not get from watching the Tanztheater live? Answer: More than you could possibly believe. This is not just a matter of the al-fresco scenes, or of our proximity to the dancers, near enough to hear them pant. There is also Wenders’s decision to shoot the film in 3-D, and, in so doing, to goad stereoscopic technology into its first leap since “Avatar.” Not before time; 3-D was stalling badly, but now we are back on track, thanks to Scorsese’s “Hugo” and to Wenders, who takes no more than a minute to flourish his credentials. Dancers file across a stage, then loop around a transparent curtain. We watch for a moment from the wings, as they process toward us, and our vision carries us down the line of people and through the veil. You can trawl through cinema and find few more beautiful, more unforced, or more fleeting representations of the bourn between the living and the dead......"
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  The 24th European Film Awards were presented on 3 December2011 in Berlin, Germany. The winners were selected by the over 2,500 members of the European Film Academy. Wim Wenders' PINA took home the prize for Best Documentary. more information |
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Was Ever a City More Bewildering?
Wim Wenders, John Singleton, Richard Rodriguez, and Others Grapple With the Hidden, Violent, Beautiful, Sunny, Dreamy Mystery That Is Los Angeles
Images of Los Angeles in art, film, television, and advertising have captivated global audiences for decades. This weekend, a group of filmmakers, critics, historians, and writers visited Zócalo at the Getty Center to participate in three panels exploring how L.A. has shaped the world.
The half-day Zócalo/Getty conference, entitled “How Los Angeles Invented the World,” was part of Pacific Standard Time, an initiative of the Getty with arts institutions across Southern California. Directors William Friedkin (To Live and Die in L.A. and The Exorcist), Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas and The Million Dollar Hotel), and John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood), essayist Richard Rodriguez, critics Kenneth Turan and Richard Schickel, and some the country’s most prominent curators, historians, and journalists filled the Harold M. Williams Auditorium to capacity, with an overflow crowd watching in a nearby simulcast room...
text from: zocalopublicsquare.org Full video / Wim Wenders segment |
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At the 49th New York Film Festival "Pina" director Wim Wenders sat down with Associate Program Director Scott Foundas for an HBO Films Directors Dialogue about the film, 3D cinema, and his career and process.  |
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| October 3 |
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Peter and I went back for 42 years.
He edited my student film, „Summer in the City“ in 1969
and since then we worked on more than 20 feature films together.....
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| Pina receives the main German Arthouse-Cinema-Prize - the Gilde Film Prize - during the Filmkunst Messe at the Alten Landratsamt in the German city of Leipzig. Pina won in the category Best Documentary. |
Anna Wehsarg, dancer in the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, reads a thank-you note by Wim after receiving the Gilde Film Prize for Pina. © Photo: Tom Schulze |
Robert Sturm, Anna Wehsarg (both dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch), Christoph Ott (NFP) and Adrian Kutter (Laudator)
© Photo: Tom Schulze |
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| SEPTEMBER 2 |
Pina celebrates its US premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. The festival's website states the following about the Festival Program Guide:
"It’s a secret. What's playing in the Telluride program is not revealed until you reach the mountains. In what has become our tradition, three distinguished artists will be honored with a silver medallion, one presented each night of the Festival....
FESTIVAL WEBSITE
Just a week from now, PINA will premiere in Canada at the Toronto International Film Festival. The premiere is slated for September 8. Visit the FESTIVAL WEBSITE for screening times.
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 Wim Wenders: I remember that night, probably into the third week of shooting Wings of Desire, when my assistant Claire Dennis and myself sat in our Berlin production office and had to come to terms with the fact that our film needed an additional character. What was missing was the character of an "ex-angel", somebody who had preceded "Damiel", our angel who had fallen in love, and could therefore tell him, from experience, what it was like to become a human being.
Claire and I came to the conclusion, by a chain of what we considered logical thoughts and deductions, that there was only one actor in the whole wide world who could play that part: Peter Falk....
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| MAY 26 more at dokville.de |
| MAY 26 |
“Taking pictures is a very solitary thing, at least for me,” says Wenders. “That’s why I wouldn’t even want to have an assistant with me, because the very presence of somebody else would make that more important than my relation to the place. And to immerse in a place is strictly only possible when you are on your own. You can fake it and you can pretend to want to listen to a place but as soon as there is someone else there, even if it is just a bystander looking at what you are doing, it is over. You are no longer in the privileged position of being a listener.”
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"When you travel a lot, and when you love to just wander around and get lost, you can end up in the strangest spots. … I don’t know, it must be some sort of built-in radar that often directs me to places that are strangely quiet, or quietly strange.” Wim Wenders
From his iconic images of exteriors and buildings to his panoramic depictions of towns and landscapes, this book presents the full range of Wenders’s photography.....
Get the catalogue: English / German
See the works and installation photos at the Haunch of Venison Gallery Website |
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Criterion's
Blu-ray edition of Wings of Desire is downright heavenly...... The print is in pristine
condition, with nary a nick, mark or speck of
dirt to be found. Grain is handled respectively,
which benefits the film-like quality of the transfer.
Black levels and picture detail are both strong,
and I cannot detect any sort of DNR, black crush,
edge enhancement or compression artifacts at all.....
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a review of PINA By David Jays
