Tag: Wings of Desire

  • Nicolas Cage Says His ‘City of Angels’ Performance Is the Key to His Superman Movie That Never Was

    Nicolas Cage Says His ‘City of Angels’ Performance Is the Key to His Superman Movie That Never Was

    Nicolas Cage is comparing Superman to the stuff of angels.The actor, who was infamously supposed to play Superman in the shelved Tim Burton film “Superman Lives,” recently revealed to USA Today that the 1998 romance film “City of Angels” was a taste of what Cage’s take on Clark Kent would have been.Cage portrayed a fallen…

  • Wim Wenders to head Tokyo film festival jury and host Ozu retrospective

    Wim Wenders to head Tokyo film festival jury and host Ozu retrospective

    Festival also set to host a retrospective of filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu.German filmmaker Wim Wenders is to preside over the international competition jury of Tokyo International Film Festival, where he will also host a retrospective of influential Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu.It will mark the first time Wenders has attended the festival since 2011, when his documentary…

  • Criterion May Releases Include Thelma & Louise, Petite Maman

    Criterion May Releases Include Thelma & Louise, Petite Maman

    Another month means another batch of films heading to The Criterion Collection. The next announced slate is for May 2023 and ushers in five new titles for the collection. Among them are Wings of Desire, Branded to Kill, Targets, Petite Maman, and Thelma & Louise. Per usual for Criterion, all the films are receiving physical…

  • Wim Wenders: ‘When Paris, Texas won Cannes it was terrible’

    Wim Wenders: ‘When Paris, Texas won Cannes it was terrible’

    The revered director talks about his friend Rainer Fassbinder, dealing with success and failure, and how he is like the angels in Wings of Desire – as a retrospective of his work comes to cinemasIs it bad manners to wear a Fassbinder T-shirt to an interview with Wim Wenders? Apparently not. “Ah, Rainer!” says Wenders,…

  • Wim Wenders on His Early Career, ‘Submergence’ and His Pope Francis Doc

    Wim Wenders on His Early Career, ‘Submergence’ and His Pope Francis Doc

    In an eclectic career spanning half a century, Wim Wenders continues to channel the zeitgeist: his romantic thriller “Submergence” recently opened in the U.S. and his documentary “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word” is set to premiere at Cannes.Wenders helped define New German Cinema with his road-movie trilogy starting in 1974, “Alice in the…