Wim Wenders

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Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (German: born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, poet, and photographer. He is a main figure in New German Cinema. Among many accolades, he has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), about Cuban music history; Pina (2011), about Brazilian photographer Sebasti Salgado; and The Salt of the Earth (2014).

The BAFTA Award for Best Direction for his narrative drama Paris, Texas (1984), which also received the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, was one of Wenders' oldest awards. Many of his sequel films have also been recognized at Cannes, including Wings of Desire (1987), for which he received the Best Director Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Since 1996, Wenders has been the president of Berlin's European Film Academy. He is a prolific photographer who has emphasized images of desolate landscapes in addition to filmmaking. He is known as an auteur director.

Early life

Wenders were born in Düsseldorf in a traditionally Catholic family. Heinrich Wenders, his father, was a surgeon. The Dutch name "Wim" is a shorter version of the baptismal name "Wilhelm." Wenders went on unaccompanied tours to Amsterdam to visit the Rijksmuseum as a child. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen, Ruhr, Germany. He then studied medicine at the University of Freiburg (1963–64) and philosophy at the University of Dusseldorf (1964–65), but he dropped out and moved to Paris in October 1966 in order to become a painter. Wenders failed his entrance exam at France's national film school, IDHEC (now La Fémis), and instead became an engraver at Johnny Friedlaender's Montparnasse studio. During this time, the Wenders became obsessed with cinema, and they saw up to five movies in a day at the local theater.

He returned to Germany in 1967 to work in the Düsseldorf office of United Artists, embarking on his passion for his life. He attended the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (University of Television and Film Munich) in the fall. While at the "HFF" he also served as a film critic for FilmKritik, Munich's daily newspaper Twen magazine, and Der Spiegel.

Before graduating from the Hochschule with a 16mm black-and-white film, Summer in the City (1970), the actor's first feature documentary debut, he made.

Personal life

Wenders and his partner, Donata, live and work in Berlin. Since the mid-1970s, he has lived in Berlin. He is an ecumenical Christian; as a youth, he aspired to be a Catholic priest. He is a fan of Borussia Dortmund, a German football team.

In 2009, Wenders signed a petition in favour of director Roman Polanski, who had been arrested while attending a film festival in 1977, which the petition stated that arresting filmmakers visiting other nations will "safely and safely" demonstrate "emotions of which no one knows" as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely."

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Career

Wenders's career began in the late 1960s, the New German Cinema era. Much of the distinctive cinematography in his movies is the result of a long-term collaboration with Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller. Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire were the result of collaborations with avant-garde authors Sam Shepard and Peter Handke. Handke's novel The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick was adapted for Wenders's second feature film, The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty. Handke co-wrote the script for Wings of Desire.

Wenders has directed several highly acclaimed documentaries, most notably Buena Vista Social Club (1999), about Cuban musicians, and The Soul of a Man (2003), on American blues. He also directed a documentary-style film on the Skladanowsky brothers, known in English as A Trick of the Light. The Skladanowsky brothers were inventing "moving pictures" when several others like the Lumière brothers and William Friese-Greene were doing the same. Buena Vista Social Club and his documentaries on Pina Bausch, Pina, and Sebastiao Salgado, The Salt of the Earth, received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Wenders has also directed many music videos for groups such as U2 and Talking Heads, including "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" and "Sax and Violins". His television commercials include a UK advertisement for Carling Premier Canadian beer.

Wenders's book Emotion Pictures, a collection of diary essays written as a film student, was adapted and broadcast as a series of plays on BBC Radio 3, featuring Peter Capaldi as Wenders, with Gina McKee, Saskia Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton and Ricky Tomlinson, dramatised by Neil Cargill.

In 2015, Wenders collaborated with artist/journalist and longtime friend Melinda Camber Porter on a documentary feature about his body of work, Wim Wenders – Visions on Film, when Porter died. The film remains incomplete.

Wenders is a member of the advisory board of World Cinema Foundation. The project was founded by Martin Scorsese and aims to find and reconstruct world cinema films that have been neglected. As of 2015 he served as a Jury Member for the digital studio Filmaka, a platform for undiscovered filmmakers to show their work to industry professionals.

In 2011, Wenders was selected to stage the 2013 cycle of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival. The project fell through when he insisted on filming in 3-D, which the Wagner family found too costly and disruptive.

In 2012, while promoting his 3-D dance film Pina, Wenders told the Documentary channel Blog that he had begun work on a new 3-D documentary about architecture. He also said he would only work in 3-D from then on. Wenders had admired the dance choreographer Pina Bausch since 1985, but only with the advent of digital 3-D cinema did he decide that he could sufficiently capture her work on screen.

In June 2017, Wenders stage-directed Georges Bizet's opera Les Pêcheurs de perles, starring Olga Peretyatko and Francesco Demuro and conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera (Staatsoper).

In a 2018 interview, Wenders said his favorite movie of all time was his film about Pope Francis, and that his entire career had been building up to it. His admiration for Francis is profound; he said he felt Francis is doing his best in a world full of calamities. He also said that, though raised Catholic, he had converted to Protestantism years earlier.

In 2019 Wenders acted as executive producer for his former assistant director Luca Lucchesi's documentary A Black Jesus, which has similar themes to Pope Francis: A Man of His Word. The film explores the role of religion in communal identity and how this can create or dissolve differences in a small Sicilian town during the height of the refugee crisis. Lucchesi noted that Wenders pushed the film to be more symbolic and philosophical, saying that Wenders wanted the film to have a "universal fairy-tale aspect" and to represent "Europe in a nutshell."

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