Wim wenders biography definition
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Wilhelm Wenders
b. Noble 14, 1945, Düsseldorf, Germany
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German Filmmaker Wim Wenders Sums Up His Work In One Word
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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
It's been a big year for German filmmaker Wim Wenders - a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin International Film Festival, a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the release of his latest Oscar-nominated documentary, "The Salt Of The Earth." This past week marks the opening of "Wim Wenders: Portraits Along The Road," a nationwide traveling retrospective of his films, many of which have been restored after years of being out of circulation. Wenders began his career as a painter, doing watercolors and etchings - mainly landscapes. He told me why he was drawn to art.
WIM WENDERS: My first impressions of beauty was not in life but strictly in paintings because I was born right after the war. My hometown of Dusseldorf was in ruins. But there was a better world and that was all these cheap art prints my parents had on their walls. And there were some old Dutch paintings and French landscapes, Corot most of all. And these cheap prints gave me the idea that there was a different kind of world out there.
MARTIN: As someone who began his artistic life as a painter thinking about moments that are static, what was it like when you first realized that you could be a
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Wenders, Wim
Nationality: German. Born: Wilhelm Wenders in Düsseldorf, 14 August 1945. Education: Studied medicine and philosophy; studied at Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film, Munich, 1967–70. Career: Film critic in Munich for Süddeutsche Zeitung and Filmkritik, late 1960s; professional filmmaker, from 1971. Awards: Golden Lion, Venice Festival, for The State of Things, 1982; Best Director, Cannes Festival, for Wings of Desire, 1987. Agent: c/o Gary Salt, The Paul Kohner Agency, 9169 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069, U.S.A.
Films as Director:
- 1967
Schauplätze (Locations) (short); Same PlayerShootsAgain (short)
- 1968
Silver City (short); Victor I (short)
- 1969
Alabama—2,000 Light Years (short); Drei amerikanischeLPs (Three American LPs) (short)
- 1970
Polizeifilm (Police Film) (short); Summer in the City (Dedicated to the Kinks) (diploma film)
- 1971
Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (The Goalie's Anxietyat the Penalty Kick)
- 1972
Der scharlachrote Buchstabe (The Scarlet Letter)
- 1973
Alice in den Städten (Alice in the Cities)
- 1974
Aus der Familie der Panzerechsen (From the Family of theCrocodilia) (short, for TV); Die Insel (The Island) (short, for TV); Falsche Bew