Lightning Over Water

The director Friedrich Monroe has trouble with finishing a silent b&w movie about Lisbon.

A writer goes on a road trip across West Germany with a group of eclectic people he meets along the way. A goalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected during a game for foul play.

Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1982) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. It is not clear how deep a lightning strike will travel down through the water. Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress' mysterious disappearance in San Francisco. Director Nicholas Ray is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer.

He meets with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel together. Also, Wender's narration in the 2nd version (absent in the initial cut) actually adds little to the film. A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema. The first cut, in contrast, has a narrative flow and progression that make it easier to absorb, though it's still tough going as we witness Nick Ray's suffering. The film... 23 of 24 people found this review helpful.

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's People have been killed or injured by direct or indirect strikes ( ground current or side flash ) while in or on the water, boats, docks, piers, or while fishing, for example. Wim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age. Was this review helpful to you?

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The first was released by Pacific Video on VHS in 1987, the second just this month (1/03) by Anchor Bay on DVD. A traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out theatres. Lightning Over Water, also known as Nick's Film, is a 1980 West German-Swedish documentary-drama film written, directed by and starring Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray. He leaves the field and goes to spend the night with a cinema cashier.

Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two ... Ray's influence on Wenders includes Ray's "love on the run" subgenre as well as his Nicholas Ray appears in a minor role in Wenders' film When Wenders goes to the Vassar campus to attend a lecture, a brief one-man performance is seen on-stage.

With Gerry Bamman, Ronee Blakley, Pierre Cottrell, Stefan Czapsky.

His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. The first version is unfortunately out of print but is worth tracking down because it's the superior one.Looking for something to watch? Nick Ray's final scene, for example ("Cut...Don't Cut.") is tortuous (we're watching a man dying), and there are sequences edited so bizarrely as to be almost incomprehensible. Directed by Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin.

It centers on the last days of Ray's own life, who was already known worldwide for his 1955 classic film Rebel Without a Cause. During the '35th Cannes International Film Festival' (14th-26th May 1982), German director It is Franz Kafka's story "A Report for an Academy", about an ape who becomes a man. Wenders supposedly found this version obscure and depressing and re-edited, adding a voiceover (his own) and superimposing passages from Ray's diary; this is the version just released on DVD, and is considered by some the definitive edition. The lightning current is likely to radiate across the surface. He calls his friend, the sound engineer Phillip Winter, for help. Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. A drama that investigates anxiety and disillusionment in America.

The film is a collaboration between Wenders and Ray to document Ray's last days due to terminal cancer in 1979. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? But I find Wender's criticism of the initial cut confusing, for it's the LATTER cut (his own) which is murky and depressing. The film is partially an homage to Ray who had a strong influence on Wenders' work, and partially an investigation on life and death. We do know that if a lightning strike hits the water, it will travel along the surface in all directions. As Winter arrives Lisbon weeks ... Two video versions of this film exist, both roughly the same length.