<p>I don’t meant to hijack(really???) but here are revisiting art/film again
Peter Falk (Colombo) died few days ago
<a href=“http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/25/ap/celebrities/main20074385.shtml[/url]”>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/25/ap/celebrities/main20074385.shtml</a>
he was in the film “Wings of Desire”
its director Wim Wenders is this.
studied all brain stuff but quit, move to Paris, failed to get in film school.
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Wenders[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Wenders</a>
my then film-police friend was obsessed over the actress Nastassia Kinski.
this brought us to go see Wenders festival, which meant tiny tatami mat room of the edge of downtown Tokyo theater’s all nighters. I think it costed 3-5 dollars back then. all you can watch and repeat.
“Wings of Desire” was however, deferent story. man, was this huge commercial hit (because of Colombo fame?) in big real venues.
To watch foreign films in the theater, art-house or Hollywood, common Japanese must read subtitles and don’t mind doing that being almost 100% literacy rate there was. which sort of evens out playing field for any films, Italian, german, US, British, Latin American, all the same unlike here in US.</p>
<p>It is about Berlin, before the wall came down. Peter Falk was acting himself (with no script) many takes that did not made final cut were in the Criterion bonus disc and the director’s commentary was full of love. He can pick and choose whom to put in his film and don’t have to make then do things they don’t want but they’d do something even better. the talent magnet, conjurer. </p>
<p>It’s sequel is “Faraway, So Close!”
Which came out 6 years later because there were untold stories and the wall did came down by then. (there is bit with Gorbachev in it. I thought, wow!! that’s a good make-up arts, then it was himself cameo role-ing!! wonder if he had a script!?)
it was sort of a disappointment overall since our expectation was sky hi.
now that the main actress (was also Wenders’ grilfriend-who died young) and great Peter Falk gone, the story ends for good.</p>