I'm finally seeing Wings of Desire. It's bloody brilliant. Human experience studies, Peter Falk as himself as an angel who came down to earth in the 1950s, color and black & white, deadpan acting, the last breaths of the Berlin Wall, and an angel who grabs a cup of coffee as the first thing he does in the "real world"...
It may lack the explosions and body count that a lot of you moviegoers come to depend on. But it's a sweet flick with great imagery that rolls like poetry.
I am planning to watch as many of these as I can manage at weekend:
1967 Same Player Shoots Again (s)
1968 Silver City (s)
1968 Polizeifilm (s)
1969 Alabama (s)
1969 3 Amerikananische LPs (s)
1970 Summer in the City/Summer in the City: Dedicated to the Kinks
1971 Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter/The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
1972 Der Scharlachrote Buchstrabe/The Scarlet Letter
1974 Alice in den Stadten/Alice in the Cities
1974 Aus der Familie der Panzereschen (s)
1975 Falsche Bewegung/Wrong Movement
1976 Im Lauf der Zeit/Kings of the Road
1977 Der Ameikanische Freund/The American Friend
1979 Lightening Over Water/Nick's Movie (co-directed with Nicholas Ray
1982 Quand Je m'Eveille/Reverse Angle (s)
1982 The State of Things
1983 Hammett
1984 Chambre 666 (s)
1984 Paris, Texas
1985 Tokyo-Ga (d)
1987 Himmel uber Berlin/Wings of Desire
1989 Auszeichnunger zu Kleidern und Stadten/Notebooks on Cities and Clothes (d)
1991 Bis ans Ende der Welt/Until the End of the World
1993 Faraway, So Close!
1994 Lisbon Story
1995 Beyond the Clouds (co-directed with Michelangelo Antonioni)
1995 Die Gebruder Skladanowsky
1997 The End of Violence
1998 Willie Nelson at the Teatro (d)
1999 Buena Vista Social Club (d)
2000 The Million Dollar Hotel
2001 In America
2002 Viel Passiert - Der BAP-Film
2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (segment Twelve Miles to Trona)
2002 U2: The Best of 1990-2000 (v) (video Stay (Faraway, So Close!))
2003 The Soul of a Man
2003 The Blues (mini) (TV Series) (episode The Soul of a Man)
2004 Land of Plenty
2004 Don't Come Knockin'
Yes, I am going on a Wender.