New German Cinema  - GERS 439

Der Himmel über Berlin
Wings of Desire

Cast and Crew


In weiter Ferne, so nah
Faraway, So Close

Cast and Crew

Barry, Thomas F. "The Weight of Angels: Peter Handke and Der Himmel über Berlin." Modern Austrain Literature 23.3/4 (1993): 53-64.

Caldwell, David and Paul W. Rea. "Handke's and Wender's Wings of Desire: Transcending Postmodernism." German Quarterly 64.1 (1991): 46-54.

Green, Peter. "Germans Abroad: Herzog, Wenders, Adlon." Sight and Sound Winter 1987/88: 128-29.

Helmetag, Charles H. "...Of Men and Angels: Literary Allusions in Wim Wender's Wings of Desire." Film/Literature Quarterly 18.4 (1990): 251-53.

Hooks, Bell. "Representing Whiteness: Seeing Wings of Desire." Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. Boston: West End Press, 1990. 165-71.

Kolker, Robert Philipp and Peter Beicken. "Wings of Desire: Between Heaven and Earth."Wim Wenders: Cinema as Vision and Desire. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993. 138-60.

Paneth, Ira. "Wim and His Wings." Film Quarterly 42 (Fall 1988): 2-8. (Interview)

Rogowski, Christian. "'Der liebevolle Blick'? The Problem of Perception in Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire." Seminar (Nov. 1993): 398-409.

Washington Post
Movie Review
Roger Ebert

Wings of Desire (deep focus)
Wings Fansite
Wings Site
Wings of Desire (german-way)
Wings on the official Wenders Site

When the Child was a Child poem
What is Peter Falk doing in Wings of Desire?
Various Interviews and Articles (great!)
"Camera Movement in Wings of Desire"

A Concrete Curtain: The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall

Faraway, So Close Site

Stay (Faraway, So Close) lyrics

see also the "remake" City of Angels
Reviews

Department of Germanic and Russian Studies University of Victoria
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