Word: wim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WINGS OF DESIRE An angel, whose job it is to listen to the cries of human misery, falls to earth and falls in love. This astringent romantic fairy tale, from director Wim Wenders and novelist Peter Handke, imagines a West Berlin languishing in heartache and itching for spiritual redemption. It's funny...
WINGS OF DESIRE. An angel, lured by human voices, falls in love and to earth. A timeless fantasy from West Germany's Wim Wenders...
...first third of Wim Wenders' long, gorgeous, swoony, dead-serious fairy tale, the voices of today's Berlin rise like the choral symphony of a great city. Then, gradually, a few solo stories can be heard. An old man named Homer (Curt Bois) recalls the days, once upon a time, when a poet had listeners, drawn into a circle; now he has only solitary readers, unable to warm themselves at the long-ago communal campfire of art. A visiting Hollywood actor (Peter Falk) teaches a new friend some primal joys, simple things: "To smoke, have coffee...
...Grand Palais stage at the 40th Cannes Film Festival to pick up their scrolls and mouth the loftiest banalities. One young filmmaker from Soviet Georgia thanked "all the inhabitants of that big wonderful country called Cinema." A Japanese director announced, "I would like to work for peace." Wim Wenders, who picked up the director's prize for his daunting, sentimental fantasy The Wings of Desire, ) said, "If we can improve the images of the world, perhaps we can improve the world." Everyone was on his best behavior at this birthday party for the world's most prestigious movie...
Hours after it was lifted, however, authorities ordered the expulsion by Tuesday of the CBS Johannesburg bureau manager, William Mutschmann, a U.S. citizen; correspondent Allen Pizzey, a Canadian, and cameraman Wim de Vos, who is Dutch...