Вим Вендерс – лучшие книги

Книгу выдающегося немецкого режиссера Вима Вендерса, автора таких известных фильмов, как "Алиса в городах", "Париж, Техас", "Небо над Берлином", "Buena Vista Social Club", "Отель "Миллион долларов", составили статьи, интервью и эссе, которые позволяют читателю проникнуть в художественную лабораторию кинорежиссера и познакомиться с его взглядами на творчество знаменитых кинематографистов: Ж.-Л.Годара, М.Антониони, А.Тарковского, Р.-В.Фассбиндера, И.Бергмана, В.Ф.Мурнау, Ф.Ланга.

Сценарий к фильму "Небо над Берлином", впервые изданный отдельной книгой в 1987 году

Filmverlag der Autoren Edition Der Filmverlag der Autoren war der wichtigste Verleih für den Neuen Deutschen Film, mit dem u.a. Regisseure wie Fassbinder, Wenders und Herzog berühmt wurden. Die edle Edition präsentiert 50 Filme aus der bewegten Geschichte dieses Filmverlags (darunter 22 Filme, die erstmals auf DVD erscheinen).

Wim Wenders, whose description as filmmaker, writer, photographer and traveler is still inadequate, has for years carried round an old panoramic camera that has come in handy when the extent or impressive nature of experience is beyond normal measure. And with as passionate a keen-sighted person as Wenders, that is frequently the case: landscapes stretch into infinity, horizons divide the world into water, earth and air, deserts and mountain ranges are overwhelming in their emptiness and silence, street fronts, whether in Havana, Houston, Texas or Berlin, draw our gaze to the very depths of civilization, or to the abyss of horror and destruction as at Ground Zero shortly after September 11, 2001.
Wenders has called his collection "Pictures from the Surface of the Earth" and is referring to images of a world that is created - and destroyed - by both nature and mankind, observed from a certain distance, and mostly empty. They include landscapes, views of cities, of architecture and nature in the USA, Japan, Australia, Israel, Cuba and Germany. They reveal not only the multi-faceted "surface of the earth", but also Wenders' predominantly contemplative, sometimes perturbed, but always fascinated gaze. As such the book, now in its 3rd edition, is both: a portrait of the world as the photographer encountered it, and a portrait of the photographer as reflected in his view of the world.