Wenders discusses how Kiefer’s work informed the craft of Anselm and more.
Kiefer’s artistic mission is a moral reckoning with Germany’s messy political entanglements.
Most of the film’s scenes feel planted, as if Wenders is introducing exhibits in a case.
Wenders’s fantasy of angels in Berlin before the end of the Cold War takes flight on 4K UHD.
The film remains a hypnotic yet foreboding look at how the proliferation of images and media technology affect the mind.
It rarely pushes past pleasant, liberal-minded platitudes to explore the man beneath the cassock.
Submergence’s globetrotting only succeeds at exposing the hollowness of the characters at the film’s center.
Whatever political commentary Wim Wenders sought to make here is lost beneath confounding characterizations.
Criterion’s transfer of an overrated musical staple is both rough and beautiful, in meticulously proper proportion.
Criterion delivers a robust package for Wenders’s trilogy, a breakthrough moment in the New German Cinema.
Wenders’s psychologically complex, beautifully stylized international breakthrough arrives in a richly outfitted Blu-ray package.
The premise should be prime fodder for director Wim Wenders’s brand of poetic regret.
At times, The Witch’s minimalist chill becomes too diffuse for its own good.
It evolves into an intimate reverie on family and aesthetics, attuned to the reflexive and ethical dimensions of ethnographic discovery.
It feels like an introductory chapter to a more substantive, sprawling study of the actor.
The most miserable thing about melancholy is that it has no object.
The supplements collectively honor Pina Bausch as an artist who had a considerable effect on the lives of her collaborators.
Essential viewing, if not only for its edutainment factor, but for the dynamism and felt resonance of its maker’s bounding enthusiasms.
In recent years, Academy members have repeatedly favored the most high-profile, buzzed-about doc in this category, from The Cove to Man on Wire to March of the Penguins.
The latest film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne left me speechless.