Wim Wenders
TV tonight: Simon Bird prepares for Armageddon in new sitcom Everyone Else Burns
Lolly Adefope also stars in this Manchester-set comedy. Plus: watch out for the Clickers in The Last of Us. Here’s what to watch this evening
Hollie Richardson, Alexi Duggins, Jack Seale, Ellen E Jones and Simon Wardell
23, Jan, 2023 @6:20 AM
What links Cate Blanchett’s new film Tár to Sissy Spacek and hot sauce?
A composer and conductor opens the door to Loretta Lynn, Wings of Desire and classic 90s rock from Goo Goo Dolls
Larry Ryan
07, Jan, 2023 @1:00 PM
Paris, Texas review – Harry Dean Stanton unforgettable in haunting classic
Wim Wenders’ iconic vision of American alienation, starring Stanton as a weatherbeaten drifter, has held its mystery for 40 years
Peter Bradshaw
27, Jul, 2022 @12:00 PM
Wim Wenders: ‘When Paris, Texas won Cannes it was terrible’
The revered director talks about his friend Rainer Fassbinder, dealing with success and failure, and how he is like the angels in Wings of Desire – as a retrospective of his work comes to cinemas
Ryan Gilbey
01, Jul, 2022 @5:00 AM
Wings of Desire review – Wim Wenders’ elegiac hymn to a broken cold-war Berlin
Shot when the city seemed forever divided by the wall, this intensely romantic story of an angel who longs for human love is unlike any other
Peter Bradshaw
22, Jun, 2022 @2:00 PM
Dean Stockwell: cult indie character actor who refused to fit in | Peter Bradshaw
At once an insider yet never quite Hollywood enough, Stockwell’s prolific career was at its best when he showed his own alienation
Peter Bradshaw
09, Nov, 2021 @1:04 PM
‘A horn blew when human remains were found’: Wim Wenders’ six hours in the hell of Ground Zero
After 9/11 the director felt haunted by the twin towers attack. As his epic photographs of Ground Zero go on show for the atrocity’s anniversary, he remembers the horrors of that day – and considers its legacy
Phil Hoad
01, Sep, 2021 @5:00 AM
Dani Karavan obituary
Artist who found fame in the world of environmental sculpture, a new medium that emerged in the 1960s
Dalia Manor
10, Jun, 2021 @6:55 PM
‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down
It divided families, trapped half a city and symbolised the cold war. Then, 30 years ago this Saturday, the Berlin wall fell. Wim Wenders, Ute Lemper, Daniel Barenboim and more share their memories
Interviews by Simon Usborne
05, Nov, 2019 @1:10 PM
Bruno Ganz: always poetic and inspired, from Hitler's bunker rant to a Berlin angel
The Swiss actor, who has died aged 77, will probably be remembered for his showstopping turn in Downfall, but his work with Wim Wenders is arguably more brilliant
Peter Bradshaw
16, Feb, 2019 @2:00 PM
On my radar: Wim Wenders’s cultural highlights
The German director on stunning 15th-century art, the magic of Nick Cave, and the spirituality of a Franciscan friar
02, Dec, 2018 @9:00 AM
Wheel life: the strange power of films set inside cars
The King, a documentary about the state of the US filmed from Elvis’s Rolls-Royce, is just the latest film set mostly inside a car. Is it the perfect vehicle for examining our cultural landscape?
Ryan Gilbey
23, Aug, 2018 @2:42 PM
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