Opening scene: like a badly lit YouTube vid with camera tracking around a dingy flat in the dark. A lot of dinge. Silences devoid of talking but staring from back of head off out into alienated nowheres. Perpetual gloom is hungover every scene. This is England of 1979. Looking as bleak and despondent as I [...]
Been wanting to watch this film since being charmed by Wenders other B/w 70′s road movie “Alice in the Cities“. And the first hour had me charmed. I was “into” it. Bruno (Rudiger Volger) is in his big “Umzuge” truck sat shaving by the Elbe when hurtling past and straight in (the river) is a [...]
Harry Dean Stanton. On walkabout (for 4 years) Haggard and disheveled. Which is ok while he’s being the mysterious (possibly mad) mute in the first 20 minutes. But i don’t think he cuts it as Nastasia Kinsky’s tragic hubby. He doesn’t look the part. Just a bit too stringy and, well – old. He sounds [...]
This is more like it Wim! (After that dreadful American Friend) A black and white road movie in which no acting feels like its going on. I like how reticent and aimlessly lost Philip (the journalist) is. No big demonstrative acts of angst. Quiet underplays of emotional gestures, un-acted feelings, subtle awkwardnesses of expression. And [...]
What a pile of pants this film is. About half way thro (an hour in) i gave up on it and started hitting fast forward to get it over with. It starts off obtuse. Slides into convoluted. Becomes preposterous. And eventually disintegrates into ridiculous. This film is evidence that Wim Wenders hasn’t only been making [...]
