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7 unusual facts about Wim Wenders


Adelle Lutz

Lutz had role as the main character's best friend in Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World, and supporting roles in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987) and Something Wild (1986).

Faustino Oramas

Wim Wenders directed a documentary film of the musicians involved, Buena Vista Social Club (1999) which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.

From Her to Eternity

The band is also seen playing a live performance of the title track in the 1987 Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire.

Marathon, Texas

The town was also a filming location for the movie Paris, Texas directed by Wim Wenders.

Melinda Camber Porter

Several of her interview subjects became lifelong friends, including filmmakers Louis Malle and Wim Wenders.

Ruby Wendell

Filmmaker Wim Wenders picked the short film Four Years, Six Months that starred Wendell and actor Keir O'Donnell as one of his favorite short films on the website Filmaka.com.

Your Funeral... My Trial

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds appeared in the 1987 Wim Wenders film Der Himmel über Berlin, performing "The Carny" (which is heard once before the performance scene) and "From Her to Eternity".


Arrow Films

For over 15 years Arrow Films has pioneered the best directors from Europe and around the world, such as Denys Arcand, Tinto Brass, Luis Buñuel, Claude Chabrol, Jules Dassin, Vittorio De Sica, Abel Ferrara, Lasse Hallström, Eric Rohmer, Roberto Rossellini, Giuseppe Tornatore, Andrzej Wajda, and Wim Wenders.

Count Five

The song "Psychotic Reaction" can be heard playing on the jukebox in an early scene in Wim Wenders' film Alice in the Cities (1974).

Don't Come Knocking

Don't Come Knocking is a 2005 film, a comedy-drama road movie directed by German director Wim Wenders and written by Wenders and actor/playwright Sam Shepard.

Filmmakers Alliance

The Vision Award, presented by Filmmakers Alliance at this event, has been given to such filmmakers as Terry Gilliam, Wim Wenders, and Alexander Payne.

Frederique van der Wal

In 2003, Van der Wal appeared in a stage production of The Vagina Monologues (Washington D.C.), and has performed in feature films by acclaimed directors Barry Sonnenfeld ("The Wild, Wild West"), Woody Allen ("Celebrity"), James Toback ("Two Girls & A Guy") and Wim Wenders.

H. C. Speir

This audition process — along with the ensuing recording sessions — was dramatized in the Wim Wenders-directed installment of the television mini-series Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey, entitled The Soul of a Man, which aired on PBS in 2003.

Henri Alekan

A new generation of directors appreciated his visionary style, and he worked with Wim Wenders on The State Of Things and Wings of Desire and Raúl Ruiz on The Territory and On Top of the Whale.

Improved Sound Limited

The band specialized in making soundtracks for German television series and for the films from the directors Michael Verhoeven and Wim Wenders.

J. B. Lenoir

The 2003 documentary film The Soul of a Man, directed by Wim Wenders as the second instalment of Martin Scorsese's series The Blues, explored Lenoir's career, together with those of Skip James and Blind Willie Johnson.

São Paulo International Film Festival

The list of international filmmakers (including Brazilian directors) consisted of Wolfgang Becker, Maria de Medeiros, Hanna Elias, Amos Gitai, Mika Kaurismäki, Jim McBride, Phillip Noyce, Ming-liang Tsai, Andrea Vecchiato, Caetano Veloso, Yoshishige Yoshida, Theo Angelopoulos, Gian Vittorio Baldi, Marcho Bechis, Laís Bodanzky, Beto Brant, Manoel de Oliveira, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin, Jerzy Stuhr, and Wim Wenders.

Souljacker

German director Wim Wenders called "Woman Driving, Man Sleeping" his favorite Eels song and he used it in the segment he directed for Ten Minutes Older.

Summer in the Yukon

That song, a duet with k.d. lang which was recorded for the soundtrack to Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World, had not yet been included on an album of new material by Siberry.

Yashira Jordán

She attended talks, meetings and workshops with cineastes and cinematographers like Mike Leigh, Lucrecia Martel, Wim Wenders, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lisandro Alonso, Felix Monti, Alex McDowell and Andrej Wajda.

Yu-shan Huang

She also saw works by Rainer Maria Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, F.W. Murnau, Hellmuth Costard, Werner Nekes, Dore O., Werner Schroeter and others at the German Cultural Center in Taipei.


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Gian-Piero Ringel

Later that year, he went on to produce Angela Schanelec’s feature film Afternoon and began working as a producer for Wim Wenders’s film The Palermo Shooting, which premiered at the official selection of the Festival de Cannes 2008.