Wim
Wenders: On Film
published
in the United States by Faber and Faber Inc. an affiliate
of Farrat, Straus und Giroux LLC, New York
The
book will be available for purchase at the end of the year.
You can preorder it at Amazon.com.
Search: 'books'; 'wim wenders', and sort by
'featured items' to find it. It is item 11 on the list.
From
the book jacket:
This
volume collects three previously published books of Wenders'
essays, interviews and ruminations: Emotion Pictures, The
Logic of Images and The Act of Seeing. The writings range
from the late sixties to the mid-nineties. Therein, Wenders
discusses his development as a film-maker, from the moment
he first picked up a camera aged twelve, through a searching
self-analysis of the creative process behind each of his major
films.
He
also offers a broader analysis of his guiding passions - rock'n'roll
and avant-garde cinema, architecture and fashion, questions
of German identity, and the influence of America, whose open
roads have long inspired him. As always, images - their fascination,
and the danger inherent in this fascination - are his central
concern. A cinephile who has embraced new video technology,
Wenders is acutely conscious of the latest debates about what
images can mean in a cultural saturated with visual stimuli.
Foreword
from the book:
Going through these writings again, I realized
that any text about movies undergoes the same again process
as those films themselves. Some become better over the years
and withstand the test of time. Others age badly and get stale.
There's nothing to do about it any more. And just as I have
to refrain from cutting my older films again (and my fingers
really twitch every now and then - I'd like to take those
scissors, figuratively speaking, and edit a bit here and there),
I will not rewrite those old reviews and essays. Take them
for what they are: a reflection of the cinema and music of
their time, and themselves now a testimony of that same period.
Wim Wenders,
Los Angeles, February 2001
