Word: wim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest cultural subsidy in the world, is spent by state and federal authorities to finance an aesthetic amalgam of 800 museums, 1,600 art galleries, 60 opera houses, 96 orchestras and 200 legitimate theaters. West Germany has its own new wave of film makers?Rainer Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders?whose reputations as cinematographic cult figures rival those of the Truffauts and Godards who starred in France's Nouvelle Vague of the '60s. Director Volker Schlondorff won top honors at the Cannes Film Festival last month for his film version of Gunter Grass's classic, The Tin Drum...
...great German directors--you either feel as if you could step into the great wide spaces on the screen and raise a family or immensely claustrophobic--this was the finest expression of cinema east of Paris since Eisenstien, and foreshadowed the cold brilliant world of the young Germans like Wim Wenders and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. At any rate, it's a good opportunity to be hugely entertained, support a film society that hasn't sold out and done Jaws in the Science Center, and learn a little about a neglected area of filmmaking you probably wouldn't know otherwise. Tickets...
...Wim Swaan is an impeccable photographer, a lucid writer and a dedicated medievalist. In The Late Middle Ages (Cornell University Press; 232 pages; $27.50) he proposes that the period from 1350 to the Renaissance in Northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula produced a "pyrotechnic blaze of glory" in art and architecture. The illustrations of Gothic spires and gargoyles, flying buttresses and Books of Hours, tombs and tapestries and town halls make the point spectacularly; the text puts it all into historical perspective. There are only 16 color plates, including a breathtaking interior of King's College Chapel in Cambridge...
...American Friend. Based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, who also authored the novel that was the source of the Hitchcock classic "Strangers on a Train," Wim Wenders' new thriller is frighteningly effective. Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper turn in the best performances of their careers as a dying Swiss picture framer and a psychologically-shattered American who helps manipulate the picture framer into murdering an upper-echelon Mafioso, and Wenders' sharp eye and dramatic sense hone the film to a remarkably fine edge...
...easy to imagine the eight major characters of Alain Tanner's Jonas Who Will Be Twenty-Five in the Year 2000 bundling into the back of the moving van owned by the protagonist of Wim Wenders' dour Kings of the Road. Wenders' people are preoccupied with their own rootlessness. In Tanner's mirthless Swiss political comedy everyone is one variety or another of Boho Marxist. In Kings of the Road, the hero, Bruno, and his sidekick, Robert, are only sporadically looking to connect. For the most part, they have engineered a working arrangement with hopelessness. They...