Last month at the 49th New York Film Festival director Wim Wenders sat down for an extended talk about his career.
He was their to screen his new film Pina, a 3D documentary about Pina Bausch, and sat down for a lengthy chat with Scott Foundas as part of their HBO Films Directors Dialogue series.
They discuss a wide variety of topics, including:
- His early days as a child projectionist
- The importance of Anthony Mann westerns
- Using longer takes in his early work
- Why music rights have made his first film (Summer in the City) technically illegal
- The New German Cinema
- Working in America
- The problems shooting Hammett
- Nicholas Ray and Lightning Over Water
- His collaborations with Sam Shepard
- Paris, Texas and it’s influence on independent filmmaking
- The six hour (!) cut of Until the End of the World
- Room 666 and the cinema of the 1980s
- The possibilities of newer filmmaking technologies
- Filming Pina in 3D
- Why 3D suits documentaries better
> Wim Wenders’ official site
> More on Wenders at Wikipedia, MUBi and Senses of Cinema
> Film Society of Lincoln Center