For all its end-of-the-millennium momentousness, for all its science-fictional gadgetry and threat of nuclear holocaust, for all its furtive fugitives and government agents and rhyming, harmonica-playing private eye ("To be effective, you need a detective"), for all its almost complete circumnavigation of the globe, and for all its two and …
Wim Wenders's sentimental fantasy for eggheads, about an invisible angel patrolling the streets of Berlin, where he has evidently been on duty since the dawn of time, witnessing and remembering the deeds of humans, and providing fleeting and ineffectual comfort for them with the occasional arm around the shoulder. Despite …
Based on the Wilhelm Meister novels of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, updated and adapted to the screen by Peter Handke, and directed by Wim Wenders. Just sorting out whose input is whose, among these three towering artists, would be a term-paper-sized project. Curiously, the chemistry of this threesome seems to …