Wim Wenders - a retroPERspective - from 26th to 30 th

At the Max Mueller Bhavan

Sunday, 26.03.2017, 6.00 p.m.

Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Städten), b/w, 110 min., 1973
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer's block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine-year-old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected. After returning to Europe, the innocent friendship between Winter and Alice grows as they travel together through various European cities on a quest for Alice's grandmother.
1975 . German Film Critics Award (Feature Film)

Sunday, 26.03.2017, 7.45 p.m.

Room 666, col., 44 min., 1982
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders set up a static camera in Room 666 of the Hotel Martinez and provided selected film directors a list of questions to answer regarding the future of cinema. Each director is given one 16 mm reel (approximately 11 minutes) to answer the questions. The principal question asked was, "Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?" Wenders then edited this footage and added an introduction.
Featured film directors:
Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Morrissey, Mike De Leon, Monte Hellman, Romain Goupil, Susan Seidelman, Noël Simsolo, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Robert Kramer, Ana Carolina, Maroun Bagdadi, Steven Spielberg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders, Yilmaz Güney

Monday, 27.03.2017, 6.30 p.m.

Paris, Texas, col., 139 min., 1984
Travis vanished for four years. Now he returns, a lonely wanderer in the desert, crossing into the US over the Mexican border, silent and withdrawn. His brother takes him to Los Angeles; Travis meets his young son, slowly wins back his trust and sets off with him in search of Jane, Travis's estranged wife and Hunter's estranged mother.
1984 . Cannes International Filmfestival: Golden Palm (Best Film)
1984 . Cannes International Filmfestival: FIPRESCI-Prize (Prize of the Economic Jury)
1984 . Prix Léon-Moussinac (Best Foreign Film)
1984 . German Camera Award (Category Feature Film: Robby Müller)
1984 . British Academy Awards (Best Director)

Tuesday, 28.03.2017, 6.30 p.m.

Don't Come Knocking, col., 118 min., 2005
Howard Spence has had enough. The aging Western film star secretly leaves the filming location in Utah and flees to his mother in Nevada. She tells him he has a child in Montana; Howard goes in search of the child and finds a son, the mother and also a daughter in Butte. The meetings with his new-found family members give rise to conflict, but are cut short when an insurance company's private detective tracks down the actor and takes him back to the film set.
2005 . Cannes International Film Festival (Competition)
2005 . European Film Academy: European Film Prize (Best Director of Photography Franz Lustig)

At Everest Talkies, Frazer Town

Thursday, 30.03.2017, 7.00 p.m.

The Salt of the Earth (Das Salz der Erde), b/w, 110 min., 2014
Over the past 40 years the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has documented the traces of our changing world and human history on all continents. He was a witness to important events of the past decades - from international conflicts, wars and their consequences, from famines, expulsions and suffering. His impressive photo shoots have shaped our world. The Salt of the Earth presents Sebastião Salgado's life and work from the perspective of two directors: his son Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, who often accompanied his father with his film camera in the last few years, and that of Wim Wenders, admirer of Salgados's photographic art, himself a photographer and one of the great filmmakers of our time.
The film was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Special Prize. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 87th Academy Awards. It won the 2014 Audience Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and the 2015 Audience Award at the Tromsø International Film Festival. Also the César Award for Best Documentary Film at the 40th César Awards.