On Movies & Media Wings of Desire's Cassiel Takes Flight: Otto Sander Dies at 72 The German actor Otto Sander died today. But he will live on in the movies he made, like the legendary submarine thriller Das Boot, and my all-time favorite film, Wim Wenders' poetic and glorious Wings of Desire.
On Movies & Media Criterion's Wings of Desire: My Favorite Movie Gets Its Ideal Treatment The best way to see Wings of Desire is on a very big screen. But it's also important to see a print that delivers its extravagant imagery without distortion or damage. Thanks to The Criterion Collection, a pristine version is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. My revised
On Movies & Media Through the Eyes of Angels, Cowboys, and Christians: A tribute to Wim Wenders, and an appreciation of his films. This interview was originally published at Looking Closer in 2006. An abridged version of this feature and interview was previously published at Christianity Today Movies. - A movie star is sitting on an old couch in the middle of the street in Butte, Montana. His name is Howard Spence, and
On Movies & Media Wings of Desire (1987) When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions. Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? When did time begin, and where does space end? ... Isn't what I see, hear, and smell just the mirage
On Movies & Media Death of an Angel I've just learned that Solveig Dommartin, the otherworldly beauty who brought an angel down to earth, and who found wings of her own, in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire (my favorite film), died of a heart attack on January 11. She was 45 years old. I will
On Movies & Media "Wings of Desire": Stage Play 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.
On Movies & Media Top Five Spiritually Significant Films What would you choose as the Top Five Spiritually Significant Films you've ever seen? The Arts and Faith board posted their top 100 recently. (I didn't vote in this process because I became increasingly baffled as to what "Spiritually Significant" meant to this particular
