On film : [essays and conversations] /
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| Author / Creator: | Wenders, Wim. |
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| Imprint: | London : Faber and Faber, 2001. |
| Description: | x, 493 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4561365 |
Table of Contents:
- About the author
- Foreword
- Emotion Pictures: Reflections on the Cinema
- Introduction
- No 'exprmnts': filming in one shot only--thoughts on 'Exprmntl 4'
- PanAm makes the big flight
- Repertoire: showing and seeing, places and people, showdowns...
- Silly asses, irritations
- One Plus One
- Lydia
- Terror of the outlaws
- I'm movin' on (BMI 2:50)
- Three rivals: The Tall Men
- From dream to nightmare: the terrifying Western Once Upon a Time in the West
- Easy Rider: a film like its title
- Critical calendar
- Despising what you sell
- Red Sun: on Rudolf Thome's film Rote Sonne
- Tired of waiting
- Reunion--blanche neige: Francois Truffaut's La Sirene du Mississippi
- Re: Bad Day at Black Rock
- The 10th Kinks LP-the 51st Alfred Hitchcock film-the 4th Creedence Clearwater Revival LP-the 3rd Harvey Mandel LP
- Hitchcock in the cutting-room
- Emotion pictures: slowly rockin' on
- Van Morrison
- L'Enfant sauvage
- Monterey Pop
- A non-existent genre
- New hat, same old scars: Eddie Constantine
- The Big TNT Show
- On television: Furchtlosen Flieger (The Fearless Fliers)
- Nashville: a film that teaches you to see and hear
- That's entertainment: Hitler
- Crazy about films: the work of the projectionist Ladwig
- Death is no solution: the German film director Fritz Lang
- The men in the rodeo arena: Lusty
- The American Dream
- Acknowledgements
- The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations
- Why do you make films?
- Time sequences, continuity of movement: Summer in the City and The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty
- The Scarlet Letter
- The heroes are the others: False Movement
- Kings of the Road
- The American Friend
- Reverse angle: New York City, March 1982
- Chambre 666
- Film thieves
- Goodbye to the booming voice of the old cinema: The State of Things
- Impossible stories
- Tokyo-Ga
- Like flying blind without instruments: on the turning point in Paris, Texas
- The growth of a small dependency
- An attempted description of an indescribable film: from the first treatment for Wings of Desire
- For (not about) Ingmar Bergman
- A history of imaginary films
- Le Souffle de l'Ange
- The Act of Seeing: Essays and Conversations
- Part I.
- To the End of the World: very first treatment for a film project
- Travelling in time
- The act of seeing
- Part II.
- Perceiving movement
- The truth of images
- The dubious revolution
- High definition
- Part III.
- Notebook on Clothes and Cities: English commentary
- The urban landscape from the point of view of images
- Find myself a city to live in
- Part IV.
- He paints his socks off
- Winter Marchen
- Eye colours
- A step ahead of the times
- Part V.
- For the city that dreams
- Not alone in a big house
- On the future of European cinema
- Talk about Germany
- Part VI.
- On painters, montage and dustbins
- 'I'm at home nowhere'
- King of Comedy
- Christ, Rainer
- Part VII.
- On making it up as you go along
- Writing a screenplay is the worst
- On walls and spaces
