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"Wings of Desire": Stage Play

Jeffrey Overstreet

08 Dec 2006
Filed under: On Movies & Media • Wings of Desire

My favorite film, Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, has been re-made once before... as a forgettable, cheezy American romance called City of Angels. Now, it's being remade again, night after night, onstage.

And The New York Times has a review.

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