"Director: Wim Wenders"

• Wings Of Desire | Blu Ray | (22/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An angel in Berlin decides to become human after falling in love with a mortal. One of Wim Wenders' biggest commercial successes and arguably his most accessible film to date Wings of Desire (aka: Der Himmel uber Berlin) centres around two trench-coated angels Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) wandering the streets of post-war pre-unification Berlin. Invisible to humans they listen to the tortured thoughts of the mortals occasionally dispensing heavenly solace to those in need. An encounter with a beautiful circus trapeze artist Marion (Solveig Dommartin) sees Damiel falling in love and longing to give up his immortal state in order to experience the simple joys of human experience. Damiel is assisted in his transformation by an American actor (Peter Falk) filming on location in the city himself a former angel who has traded in his wings for a mortal existence. Scripted by Wenders and respected German playwright and novelist Peter Handke the film is impeccably shot by legendary cinematographer Henri Alekan (Jean Cocteau's cameraman on La belle et la bete) blossoming from the monochrome perspective of the angels to colour following Damiel's eventual transmutation. As ever with Wenders music plays an important part and the film features rare on-screen performances by the bands Crime And The City Solution and Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. Multi-award winning (including the Best Director prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival) and hugely acclaimed Wings Of Desire is a delightfully poetic celebration of the human condition. It famously inspired Brad Silberling's 1998 hit film City of Angels starring Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan. In 1993 Wenders reunited with Ganz Sander Dommartin and Falk along with Nastassja Kinski and Willem Dafoe for a sequel Faraway So Close!.

• Paris, Texas | Blu Ray | (28/01/2013) from £18.10   |  Saving you £1.89 (10.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Something like a perfect artistic union is achieved in the major components of Paris, Texas: the twang of Ry Cooder's guitar, the lonely light of Robbie Muller's camera, the craggy landscape of Harry Dean Stanton's face. In his greatest role, longtime character actor Stanton plays a man brought back to his old life after wandering in the desert (or somewhere) for four years. He has a 7-year-old son to get to know, and his wife has gone missing. The material is much in the wanderlust spirit of director Wim Wenders, working from a script by Sam Shepard and L.M. Kit Carson. If the long climactic conversation between Stanton and Nastassja Kinski renders the movie uneven and slightly inscrutable, it's hard to think of a more fitting ending--and besides, the achingly empty American spaces stick longer in the memory than the dialogue. Winner of the top prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. --Robert Horton

• In The Course of Time | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £7.85   |  Saving you £12.14 (154.65%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Kings of the Road focuses on the relationship that develops between two men - movie projector repairman Bruno and suicidal Robert - as they travel in a truck on the dusty roads along the border between East and West Germany. Lonely and introspective they both long for the company of women. By the end of their journey they derive comfort from the fact that in the course of time their lives have taken on some shape and some significance.

• The Salt of the Earth DVD | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  For the last 40 years the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories of wild fauna and flora and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet’s beauty. Sebastião Salgado’s life and work are revealed to us by his son Juliano who went with him during his last travels and by Wim Wenders himself a photographer.

• The American Friend | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £11.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Today a cult film The American Friend is based on the novel Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith and won the German Critics Prize in 1977. Frame maker Jonathan (Bruno Ganz) believes he is dying from a blood disease and his American friend displaced cowboy Ripley (Dennis Hopper) decides to use his illness to his advantage. Ripley introduces him to a gangster who proposes to the dying man that he should become a professional mob assassin assuring a large legacy for his wife and children. Since he is facing death anyway what has he to lose? Ripley had originally intended to allow Jonathan to do the dirty work that he didn't feel like doing but has second thoughts when he becomes friends with the doomed man.

• The Salt of the Earth Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (14/09/2015) from £11.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (68.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastia o Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet s beauty. Sebastia o Salgado s life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last travels, and by Wim Wenders, himself a photographer.

• Alice In The Cities | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the key films of the New German Cinema Alice In The Cities marked the emergence of Wim Wenders as one of the most distinctive European filmmakers of the 1970s. It is also widely accepted to be one of the director's most poignant films and the first to be shot partly in the United States. Philip Winter a journalist with writer's block becomes the guardian of eight year-old Alice (Yella Rottlander) when her mother leaves the girl with him briefly at an American airport only never to return. Back in Germany an unlikely friendship develops between the two as they embark on a journey to find Alice's grandmother. Through Rudiger Vogler's portrayal of the embittered Winter Wenders presents a stark but witty account of the changing face of Europe the onset of global consumerism and the influences of American pop culture.

• Wim Wenders | A Curzon Collection | Blu Ray | (12/12/2022) from £179.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This authoritative 22-disc collection encompasses the 50-year career of award-winning filmmaker Wim Wenders. Alongside his masterpieces Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire, the collection features his electrifying debut The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty, his classic road movie trilogy (Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move and Kings of the Road), the director's cut of Until the End of the World and the acclaimed documentaries Buena Vista Social Club, Pina and The Salt of the Earth. The collection also features a wealth of extras, an illustrated booklet, film posters and four Polaroid images shot by the filmmaker. Product Features Hardcover lay flat book in a canvas slipcase New 4K digital restorations of Wings of Desire, Kings of the Road, The American Friend, The State of Things, Tokyo-Ga, Notebook on Cities and Clothes, Until the End of the World, Lisbon Story, The Million Dollar Hotel, Wrong Move and The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty approved by director Wim Wenders. New 2K digital restorations of Paris, Texas and Alice in the Cities. New masterclasses and interviews with Wim Wenders filmed in London in summer 2022. 7 short films by Wim Wenders: Same Player Shoots Again, Silver City Revisited, From the Family of Reptiles, The Island, Room 666, Reverse Angle, Arisha, the Bear and the Stone Ring Over 50 Special Features including exclusive interviews, deleted scenes, commentaries, behind-the-scenes footage, music videos, original and restored theatrical trailers. PLUS: 22-page booklet, five collectible polaroids by Wim Wenders, three A3 theatrical posters.

• Submergence | DVD | (11/03/2019) from £4.81   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a remote hotel in Normandy, bio-mathematician Danielle Flinders (Alicia Vikander) meets James More (James McAvoy). There to prepare for their respective missions, bio-mathematician Danielle and British Secret Service Operative James, did not expect to meet the love of their lives the retreat. After days of intense passion, they must separate. Danielle embarks on a deep-sea diving project to support her theory about the origin of life on our planet, while James journeys to Somalia to track down a source for suicide bombers infiltrating Europe. Soon, they are worlds apart. James is taken hostage by Jihadist fighters and has no way of contacting Danny, and she has to go down to the bottom of the ocean in her submersible, not even knowing if James is still alive.

• Paris, Texas | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £25.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Something like a perfect artistic union is achieved in the major components of Paris, Texas: the twang of Ry Cooder's guitar, the lonely light of Robbie Muller's camera, the craggy landscape of Harry Dean Stanton's face. In his greatest role, longtime character actor Stanton plays a man brought back to his old life after wandering in the desert (or somewhere) for four years. He has a 7-year-old son to get to know, and his wife has gone missing. The material is much in the wanderlust spirit of director Wim Wenders, working from a script by Sam Shepard and L.M. Kit Carson. If the long climactic conversation between Stanton and Nastassja Kinski renders the movie uneven and slightly inscrutable, it's hard to think of a more fitting ending--and besides, the achingly empty American spaces stick longer in the memory than the dialogue. Winner of the top prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. --Robert Horton

• Wings Of Desire | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One of Wim Wenders' biggest commercial successes and arguably his most accessible film to date Wings of Desire (aka: Der Himmel uber Berlin) centres around two trench-coated angels Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) wandering the streets of post-war pre-unification Berlin. Invisible to humans they listen to the tortured thoughts of the mortals occasionally dispensing heavenly solace to those in need. An encounter with a beautiful circus trapeze artist Marion (Solveig Dommartin) sees Damiel falling in love and longing to give up his immortal state in order to experience the simple joys of human experience. Damiel is assisted in his transformation by an American actor (Peter Falk) filming on location in the city himself a former angel who has traded in his wings for a mortal existence. Scripted by Wenders and respected German playwright and novelist Peter Handke the film is impeccably shot by legendary cinematographer Henri Alekan (Jean Cocteau's cameraman on La belle et la bete) blossoming from the monochrome perspective of the angels to colour following Damiel's eventual transmutation. As ever with Wenders music plays an important part and the film features rare on-screen performances by the bands Crime And The City Solution and Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. Multi-award winning (including the Best Director prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival) and hugely acclaimed Wings Of Desire is a delightfully poetic celebration of the human condition. It famously inspired Brad Silberling's 1998 hit film City of Angels starring Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan. In 1993 Wenders reunited with Ganz Sander Dommartin and Falk along with Nastassja Kinski and Willem Dafoe for a sequel Faraway So Close!.

• Buena Vista Social Club | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £4.80   |  Saving you £5.19 (108.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 1996 Ry Cooder gathered together some of the greatest names from the history of Cuban music to collaborate on the best selling and Grammy winning album The Buena Vista Social Club.

• Wings of Desire | DVD | (12/12/2022) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This remastered version of Wim Wenders' heart-breaking Berlin masterpiece is a glorious love letter to a city and a time capsule of a bygone era. Damiel (Bruno Ganz at his best) is one of a legion of angels who watches over the lives of residents in a divided city. Set towards the end of the 1980s, before the Berlin Wall came down, the film charts Damiel's desire to feel, just as the subjects he watches over do. In particular, he is enraptured by Solveig Dommartin's Marion, an acrobat in a circus. Although it is only children who can see the angels, Marion is faintly aware of Damiel's presence. As is Peter Falk's actor, filming on location in the city, who has a past that links him with the otherworldly guardians. Outside the central romance, the richness of Wenders' film lies in the snapshots of the lives of Berlin's populace individuals who exist on the periphery of the narrative but who inform Damiel's desire to achieve a human state. Wenders' camera flies above the city (the film's original German title is literally translated as The Sky Over Berlin ), capturing these lives in motion, as Damiel's fellow angel Cassiel (Otto Sander) reminds his friend of what he will lose by achieving a mortal state. Mirroring the shift between colour and black and white first employed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1946 drama A Matter of Life and Death , Wings of Desire matches that film's magical aura not just in its subject matter, but as a work of transcendent cinema.

• Million Dollar Hotel | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £14.54   |  Saving you £-8.55 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A gang of unique outcasts and misfits live in a downtown Los Angeles fleapit, known locally as the

• Wings Of Desire | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £16.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (17.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  There are angels on the streets of Berlin... One of Wim Wenders' biggest commercial successes and arguably his most accessible film to date WINGS OF DESIRE (Der Himmel uber Berlin) centres around two trench-coated angels Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) wandering the streets of post-war pre-unification Berlin. Invisible to humans they listen to the tortured thoughts of the mortals occasionally dispensing heavenly solace to those in need. An encounter with a beaut

• Paris, Texas | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mute suffering from amnesia and long thought dead Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) is discovered wandering around in the Texas desert. Slowly the story of his past unfolds first with help from his brother (Dean Stockwell) and sister-and-law (Aurore Clement) and finally by Travis himself as he begins to regain his relationship with his young son and his long-lost wife (Nastassja Kinski). Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and hailed by critics and audiences alike PARIS TEXAS is haunting beautifully photographed and sensitively acted. It's a film you won't soon forget.

• Paris, Texas | Blu Ray | (22/08/2022) from £14.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Both a road movie and a mystery, and featuring a sublime score by Ry Cooder, Wim Wenders' Cannes winner is the pinnacle of the filmmaker's career. Harry Dean Stanton plays Travis Henderson, who walks out of the desert after disappearing for four years. He is picked up by his brother Walt (Dean Stockwell), who with his wife Anne (Aurore Clément) have been looking after Travis' son Hunter (Hunter Carson). A man ill at ease in everyday life, Travis feels the need to search for his ex, Jane (Nastassja Kinski), who left him some years before. In doing so, he attempts to bring his family back together, with unexpected results. Paris, Texas is the summation of Wenders' fascination with the American West its landscape and the people who populate it. Stanton's grizzled face says more than any words could convey, his silence accentuating his feelings of dislocation from the modern world. Instead, Ry Cooder's music, heavily influenced by Blind Willie Johnson's blues standard ˜Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground', along with Robby Müller's stunning cinematography, transpose Travis' emotional and physical journey upon the vast sights and sounds of the American landscape. The script, co-written by L.M. Kit Carson and acclaimed playwright Sam Shepard, plays with the notion of myth, country and character a place always out of reach or a relationship consigned to the past. It's a potent idea that Wenders' film brilliantly embraces.

• Pina | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.69   |  Saving you £8.30 (107.93%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Pina is a feature-length dance film with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wupperta featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer who died in the summer of 2009. Director Wim Wenders takes the audience on a visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary ensemble and follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal - the place which for 35 years was the home and center for Pina Bausch's creativity.

• Buena Vista Social Club | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £8.29   |  Saving you £7.70 (92.88%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1996 Ry Cooder gathered together some of the greatest names from the history of Cuban music to collaborate on the best selling and Grammy winning album The Buena Vista Social Club.

• The State of Things | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £8.49   |  Saving you £7.50 (88.34%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Director Wim Wenders' most corrosive statement on the art of filmmaking 'The State of Things' is a powerful journey into the underbelly of the American film industry. When his Hollywood producer disappears leaving the actors and crew on the Portugese set of a sci-fi thriller with no money or film director Friedrich Munro (Patrick Bauchau) travels to Hollywood to find him. What he uncovers is a shady world where criminals and moguls barely differ and the art of filmmaking is merely another money-making enterprise. The result is both visually arresting and one of the best films about filmmaking ever made.