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Germany. 1987. 127 minutes. Black and White/Color. 1.66:1. German, English, French. Spine #490. DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES. 4K restoration, supervised and approved by director Wim Wenders, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack.
- Damiel
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- Picture 9/10
- Audio 8/10
- Extras 9/10
Wings of Desireis one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. ...
Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desirereceives a 4K UHD upgrade from The Criterion Collection, who present the film in 10-bit SDR on a triple-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. The 2160p/24hz ultra high-definition presentation is sourced from a new 4K restoration performed by Wim Wenders Stiftung, taken from a scan of both the 35mm black-and-...
Presented in DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround, the soundtrack has also been newly restored, sourced from the original magnetic tracks. The notes mention that the film was initially mixed in Dolby 2.0 stereo surround and has been “carefully adapted to today’s 5.1 theatrical sound systems” for this restoration. What I believe they mean by that is that they hav...
Since Criterion reuses the Blu-ray from their 2009 edition, all its features have been ported to this edition. Things start with an audio commentary(the only supplement on the 4K disc) featuring director Wim Wenders and actor Peter Falk. I had assumed initially back in 2009 that Criterion had ported over the commentary from the MGM edition (which I...
Directed by Wim Wenders • 1987 • Germany, France. Starring Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk. WINGS OF DESIRE is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below.
Wings of Desire ( German: Der Himmel über Berlin, pronounced [deːɐ̯ ˈhɪml̩ ˈʔyːbɐ bɛɐ̯ˈliːn] ⓘ; lit. 'The Heaven/Sky over Berlin') is a 1987 romantic fantasy film written by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke and Richard Reitinger, and directed by Wenders.
3. Nov. 2009 · This cognitively dissonant urban experiment had frequently been the grim arena for sixties spy noir, but never had we seen Berlin become Berlin so clearly, so eloquently before. (The more sober and evocative German title translates as The Sky over Berlin.) Of course the city is haunted.
The Criterion Collection. Wings of Desire. Blu-ray edition reviewed by Chris Galloway. October 25 2009. BUY AT: See more details, packaging, or compare. Synopsis. Wings of Desire is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies.
9. Nov. 2009 · On Wings of Desire | Current | The Criterion Collection. By Wim Wenders. Features — Nov 9, 2009. The following essay, written in October 1987, after the release of Wings of Desire, originally appeared in The Logic of Images, a collection of Wim Wenders’s writing that was published in 1992.
