Wim Wenders Film Retrospective

Museum of Modern Art (New-York, USA)

The Museum of Modern Art celebrates filmmaker Wim Wenders with a major career retrospective of more than 20 feature films and numerous shorts. The retrospective captures the breadth of Wenders’s career, from his 16mm experimental works of the late 1960s—including Same Player Shoots Again (1968) and Silver City Revisited (1969)—to the New York premiere of his most recent film, The Salt of the Earth (2014). This documentary profile of the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado won the Un Certain Regard Special Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and will be commercially released by Sony Pictures Classics on March 27, 2015.

Also presented are new digital restorations of some of Wenders’s most cherished fiction and nonfiction films: The Goalkeeper’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1972); Alice in the Cities (1974); The American Friend (1977); Paris, Texas (1984); Tokyo-Ga (1985); Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989); and the North American premiere of the full-length director’s cut of Until the End of the World (1991). The retrospective culminates with Wenders’s vibrant documentaries about music, dance, and filmmaking: Lightning over Water (1980), Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky (1995), Buena Vista Social Club (1999), The Soul of a Man (2003), and Pina (2011).

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FILMS OF THE RETROSPECTIVE:


Paris, Texas
(West Germany / France, 1984), 2K DCP
Mon 02.03, 3.45 pm, Theater 2, T2, Introduced by Wim Wenders
Wed 11.03, 6.15 pm, Theater 2, T2

The American Friend
(Der Amerikanische Freund, West Germany / France, 1977), 4K DCP
Mon 02.03, 7.15 pm, Theater 1, T1, Followed by a Q&A with Wim Wenders
Tue 10.03, 4.00 pm, Theater 2, T2

Wim Wenders‘ early short films
(Same Player Shoots Again, Silver City Revisited, Polizeifilm, Alabama (2000 Light Years), 3 American LP’s)
Tue 03.03, 4.00 pm, Theater 2, T2, Introduced by Wim Wenders
Sun 15.03, 3.45 pm, Theater 2, T2

Alice in the Cities
(Alice in den Städten, West Germany, 1974), 2K DCP
Tue 03.03, 6.30 pm, Theater 2, T2, Followed by a Q&A with Wim Wenders
Tue 17.03, 1.45 pm, Theater 3, mezzanine, Education and Research Building

The Left-Handed Woman
(Die linkshändige Frau, West Germany, 1977), 4K DCP
Wed 04.03, 4.00 pm, Theater 2, T2, Introduced by Wim Wenders and Peter Handke
Sun 08.03, 1.30 pm, Theater 2, T2

The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
(Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter, West Germany / Austria, 1972), 4K DCP
Wed 04.03, 7.00 pm, Theater 1, T1, Introduced by Wim Wenders and Peter Handke, Followed by an Onstage conversation with Wim Wenders and Peter Handke, moderated by Ian Buruma
Sat 14.03, 7.30 pm, Theater 2, T2

Wrong Move
(Falsche Bewegung, West Germany, 1975), 35mm Colour
Thu. 05.03, 4.00 pm, Theater 2, T2, Introduced by Wim Wenders and Peter Handke
Sun 08.03, 4.15 pm, Theater 2, T2

Wings of Desire
(Der Himmel über Berlin, West Germany / France, 1987), 2K DCP
Thu. 05.03, 6.45 pm, Theater 2, T2, Introduced by Wim Wenders and Peter Handke
Fri 13.03, 4.00 pm, Theater 2, T2

The State of Things
(Der Stand der Dinge, West Germany, 1981/82), 35mm black and white and coulor
Fri. 06.03, 4.00 pm, Theater 2, T2, Introduced by Wim Wenders
Sun 08.03, 6.45 pm, Theater 2, T2

Reverse Angle
(West Germany, 1982)
Fri. 06.03, 4.00 pm, Theater 2, T2, Introduced by Wim Wenders
Sun 08.03, 6.45 pm, Theater 2, T2

Kings of the Road
(Im Lauf der Zeit, West Germany 1976), 4K DCP
Fri 06.03, 7.00 pm, Theater 2, T2, Followed by a Q&A with Wim Wenders
Mon 09.03, 6.00 pm, Theater 2, T2

Until the End of the World
(Bis ans Ende der Welt, Germany / France / Australia 1991-94), director’s cut, 4K DCP
Sat 07.03, 1.30 pm, Theater 2, T2, Followed by a Q&A with Wim Wenders

The Salt of the Earth
Sat 07.03, 7.45 pm, Theater 2, T2, Introduced by Wim Wenders and Juliano Salgado, Followed by a Q&A with Wim Wenders and Juliano Salgado

Notebook on Cities and Clothes
(West Germany/ France 1988/89), 4K DCP
Mon 09.03, 1.00 pm, Theater 3, mezzanine, Education and Research Building
Sat 14.03, 2.15 pm, Theater 2, T2

Summer in the City
(West Germany 1970), 16mm black and white
Mon 09.03, 2.45 pm, Theater 2, T2
Tue 10.03, 6.45 pm, Theater 2, T2

Nick’s Film – Lightning over Water
(West Germany 1979/80), 35mm Eastmancolor
Tue 10.03, 1.30 pm, Theater 3, mezzanine, Education and Research Building
Sun 15.03, 1.30 pm, Theater 2, T2

A Trick of the Light
(Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky / Germany 1996), 16mm blow up to 35mm, black and white and color
Wed 11.03, 1.30 pm, Theater 2, T2
Mon 16.03, 1.30 pm, Theater 3, mezzanine, Education and Research Building

Tokyo-Ga
(West Germany / USA, 1983-85)
Wed 11.03, 4.00 pm, Theater 2, T2
Mon 16.03, 4.00 pm, Theater 2, T2

The Soul of a Man
(Germany / USA, 2002), 35mm, color and black and white
Thu 12.03, 4.00 pm, Theater 2, T2
Sat 14.03, 4.30 pm, Theater 2, T2

Buena Vista Social Club
(Germany/USA 1998/99), 2K DCP
Thu 12.03, 6.30 pm, Theater 2, T2
Tue 17.03, 4.15 pm, Theater 2, T2

Faraway, so Close!
(In weiter Ferne, so nah!, Germany 1992/93), 35mm black and white and Color
Fri 13.03, 7.00 pm, Theater 2, T2
Sun 15.03, 6.00 pm, Theater 2, T2

Pina in 3D
Mon 16.03, 6.30 pm, Theater 1, T1
Tue 17.03, 6.45 pm, Theater 2, T2