Room 666 (Documentary)
Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Chris Sievernich
Cinematographer: Agnès Godard
Editor: Chantal de Vismes
Restored in vivid 4K, this legendary document of an artform in transition – as relevant now as it was in 1982 – features Wim Wenders, Steven Spielberg, Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog and more discussing the future of cinema.
Proof that reports of the death of movies have been greatly exaggerated, Wim Wenders’s documentary, shot at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, asks a question that continues to reverberate in the current moment: “Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?” To respond, the filmmaker corralled a who’s who of then-contemporary filmmaking, as directors including Michelangelo Antonioni, Susan Seidelman, Paul Morrissey, Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Steven Spielberg convene in a festival hotel room to wax lyrical on the state of the artform in the age of the video cassette. Come for the playful bon mots; stay for the immaculate director fits.