Three by Wim Wenders (Documentary)
Screening on the German auteur’s 80th birthday, these shorts showcase his passion for cinema.
Wim Wenders’s experimental side was present from his earliest forays into the form to his journeys into American movies and his reflection on the seventh art at the dawn of the home-video era. His 1967 student film Same Player Shoots Again finds the filmmaker taking his first steps; Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982 catches him in production on the Hollywood noir Hammett; and Room 666 sees some of cinema’s biggest names (including Godard, Fassbinder, Herzog and Spielberg) offering reflections on an artform in flux.