PERFECT DAYS Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Wim Wenders Stars: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arise Nakano, Aoi Yamada. This slow-moving, gently paced minimalist drama from revered German filmmaker Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, etc) is set in Japan and reveals his great appreciation for Japan, its culture and traditions. A German/Japanese coproduction Perfect Days was nominated… Continue Reading »
SUBMERGENCE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Wim Wenders Stars: James McAvoy, Alicia Vikander, Alexander Siddiq, Celyn Jones, Mohamed Hakeemshady, Reda Kateb. Danielle Flanders (Alicia Vikander) is a biomathematician who is about to dive to the ocean floor off Greenland in a mini-submersible to probe her theories on the origins of life. Meanwhile in Somalia, British spy… Continue Reading »
THE SALT OF THE EARTH
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Directors: Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. They say one picture is worth a thousand words, and that seems especially true when the pictures come from the lens of Brazilian born photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Initially Salgado studied economics at the behest of his father, but while living in Paris in… Continue Reading »
PINA
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Wim Wenders. Wim Wenders’s documentary celebrates the life and work of iconic German modern dance choreographer Pina Bausch. Wenders first met dancer and choreographer Bausch in 1985, and he has spent the better part of 20 years trying to make a film that did her formidable reputation justice. Apparently… Continue Reading »
THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Wim Wenders Stars: Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits, Amanda Plummer, Peter Stromare, Gloria Stuart, Harris Yulin,Tom Bower, Donal Logue, Julian Sands, Bud Cort, Tim Roth. In recent years German director Wim Wenders has turned his cynical outsider’s eye on Los Angeles, showing us a sleazy and seedy… Continue Reading »
