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In this episode, I talk about Wim Wenders’s 1988 film, “Wings of Desire.” It’s about an angel who falls in love with a trapeze artist and is willing to give up eternity and become human in order to be with her. I think this is such a powerful and poetic film about love, connection, and what it means to be human. It’s a life-affirming film that always reminds me of the beauty of being alive. There are spoilers in this episode.
Full Show Notes:
- My episode on John Cassavetes’s A Woman Under the Influence
- My episode on John Cassavetes’s Opening Night
- My episode on Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life
- “Too Much” by Carl Rae Jepsen
- My episode on George Sluizer’s The Vanishing
- “Bad Magic” by Weyes Blood
- “Movies” by Weyes Blood
- Skeleton Tree by Nick Cave
- One More Time With Feeling
- Nick Cave’s newsletter, The Red Hand Files
- Anita Lane
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- “This Must be the Place (Naive Melody)” by Talking Heads
All My Sources:
- Criterion Collection edition of Wings of Desire
- Michael Atkinson – “Wings of Desire: Watch the Skies” (Criterion.com)
- BOMB Magazine interview with Wim Wenders
- Wim Wenders on Wings of Desire (Criterion.com)
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