Directed by Wim Wenders • 1982 • France, West Germany
Starring Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog
“Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?” At the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders invited fifteen other filmmakers to give their personal answers to that question. Their responses—recorded privately via a static camera inside a hotel room—form an enlightening, provocative, and philosophical reflection on the challenges then facing filmmakers and on the possible future of their industry. Featuring luminaries such as Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Steven Spielberg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Susan Seidelman, Yılmaz Güney, and, in his last interview before his death just weeks later, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, ROOM 666 offers a uniquely candid look at the relationship between artists and their craft.
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Room 999
Directed by Lubna Playoust • 2023 • France
Starring Wim Wenders, David Cronenberg, Claire DenisForty years after Wim Wenders asked leading filmmakers at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival to offer their thoughts on the future of cinema in his documentary Room 666, Lubna Playoust poses the same quest...
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Lubna Playoust Interview
This interview with director Lubna Playoust was conducted in 2024.