Wim Wenders’ Adventures in Moviegoing
14 Episodes
Whether traveling the open roads of his native Germany, the American West, or—as in his acclaimed latest, PERFECT DAYS—the streets of Tokyo, Wim Wenders maps both the inner worlds of wanderers and dreamers and the outer spaces they inhabit. In this edition of Adventures in Moviegoing, Wenders sits down with fellow filmmaker Michael Almereyda to discuss his own meandering path toward directing, one that began in earnest with his cinematic self-education while studying art in Paris. The films he has chosen to present include favorites by Yasujiro Ozu, Agnès Varda, and Laurie Anderson, artists who speak through a cinematic grammar all their own.
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23:47Episode 1Wim Wenders in Conversation
Episode 1
Whether traveling the open roads of his native Germany, the American West, or—as in his acclaimed latest, PERFECT DAYS—the streets of Tokyo, Wim Wenders maps both the inner worlds of wanderers and dreamers and the outer spaces they inhabit. In this edition of Adventures in Moviegoing, Wenders sit...
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Wim Wenders on THE MUNEKATA SISTERS and TOKYO TWILIGHT
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1:52:30Episode 3The Munekata Sisters
Episode 3
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1950 • Japan
Starring Kinuyo Tanaka, Hideko Takamine, Ken UeharaJapanese golden-age greats Kinuyo Tanaka and Hideko Takamine star in this rich melodrama centered on two sisters: the reserved, traditional Setsuko (Tanaka), unhappily married to an alcoholic wastrel, and...
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2:21:02Episode 4Tokyo Twilight
Episode 4
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1957 • Japan
One of Ozu's most piercing portraits of family strife, Tokyo Twilight follows the parallel paths of two sisters contending with an absent mother, unwanted pregnancy, and marital discord.
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05:30Episode 5Wim Wenders on LA POINTE COURTE
Episode 5
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1:21:12Episode 6La Pointe Courte
Episode 6
Directed by Agnès Varda • 1955 • France
Starring Silvia Monfort, Philippe NoiretThe great Agnès Varda’s film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complic...
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04:13Episode 7Wim Wenders on THE BRIDGE
Episode 7
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1:43:11Episode 8The Bridge
Episode 8
Directed by Bernhard Wicki • 1959 • West Germany
Starring Karl Michael Balzer, Folker Bohnet, Michael HinzBernhard Wicki’s astonishing THE BRIDGE was the first major antiwar film to come out of Germany after World War II, as well as the nation’s first postwar film to be widely shown internation...
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05:15Episode 9Wim Wenders on LE PETIT SOLDAT
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1:28:22Episode 10Le petit soldat
Episode 10
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1963 • France
Starring Michel Subor, Anna Karina, Henri-Jacques HuetBefore his convention-shattering debut, BREATHLESS, had even premiered, Jean-Luc Godard leapt into the making of his second feature, a thriller that would tackle the most controversial subject in F...
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05:17Episode 11Wim Wenders on THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS
Episode 11
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1:28:43Episode 12The Merchant of Four Seasons
Episode 12
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1971 • Germany
Starring Hans Hirschmüller, Irm Hermann, Gusti KreisslNew German Cinema icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder kicked off a new phase of his young career when he made the startling THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS. In this anguished yet mordantly funny f...
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03:20Episode 13Wim Wenders on HEART OF A DOG
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1:15:38Episode 14Heart of a Dog
Episode 14
Directed by Laurie Anderson • 2015 • United States
HEART OF A DOG marks the first feature film in thirty years by multimedia artist Laurie Anderson. A cinematic tone poem that flows from a sustained meditation on death and other forms of absence, the film seamlessly weaves together thoughts on...
