Fitzgerald's work appears in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960 film L ' avventura as the book Anna was reading before she disappeared, and in Wim Wenders ' film Alice in den Städten ( 1973 — in English, Alice in the Cities ) on the coffee table of Vogel's depressed girlfriend.

The use of the book in the latter film may have been inspired by actress Lois Moran, who was the basis for the character of Rosemary Hoyt in Fitzgerald's novel, and plays an " Airport Hostess " in Wenders ' movie.

Until the End of the World () is a 1991 film by the German film director Wim Wenders ; the screenplay was written by Wenders and Peter Carey, from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin.

Between 1967 and 1970 while at the " HFF ", Wenders also worked as a film critic for FilmKritik, then the Munich daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, Twen magazine, and Der Spiegel.

Director Wim Wenders called her work " at least 15 years ahead of its time ", while the The Guardian termed Ann " a Garbo for our times ".

Other up-and-coming filmmakers allied themselves to this Oberhausen group, among them Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Herzog, Jean-Marie Straub, Wim Wenders, Werner Schroeter and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg in their rejection of the existing German film industry and their determination to build a new industry founded on artistic excellence rather than commercial dictates.

He also appeared in The Great Muppet Caper, The Princess Bride, Murder By Death, The Cheap Detective, Vibes, Made, and ( as himself ) in Wim Wenders ' 1987 film Wings of Desire and its 1993 sequel, Faraway, So Close !.

The film Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders was named after the city, but was not set there.

Over a decade in the making and developed after a series of discussions Wenders had with French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, Until the End of the World is Wenders ' most ambitious film.

Wenders also couldn't get clearance to film in China.

The soundtrack is notable for Wenders asking various recording artists — Depeche Mode, U2, R. E. M., Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Can, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Jane Siberry, etc .— for music to be used in the film ; specifically for the music that they thought they would be making in 1999.

Wenders calls this cut of his film the " Reader's Digest Version.

Wenders realized the film would be too long for the commercial distribution, so he kept control of the unedited film rather than surrendering it to distributors.

The longer cut, which Wenders regards as the definitive version of the film, unfolds as a trilogy and is presented in three parts ( the titles appear three different times ).

* A VR-like system, used to record and play back dreams, figures centrally in Wim Wenders ' 1991 film Until the End of the World.

Ernst Wilhelm " Wim " Wenders ( born 14 August 1945 ) is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and film producer.

Wenders failed his entry test at France's national film school IDHEC ( now La Fémis ), and instead became an engraver in the studio of Johnny Friedlander, an American artist, in Montparnasse.

Wenders completed several short films before graduating from the Hochschule with a feature-length 16mm black and white film, Summer in the City.

Handke's novel, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick was adapted for Wenders ' second feature film, The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty.

Although Coppola was not credited for his effort, according to one source, " by the time the final version was released in 1982, only 30 percent of Wenders ' footage remained, and the rest was completely reshot by Coppola, whose mere ' executive producer ' credit is just a technicality.

Jarmusch was the only person Ray brought to work – as his personal assistant – on Lightning Over Water, a documentary about his dying years on which he was collaborating with Wim Wenders.

Shot like the director's previous efforts in black and white, this constructivist neo-noir was Jarmusch's first collaboration with renowned Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller, who had been known for his work with Wenders.

In addition, a 179-minute " European cut " was released on laserdisc ( letterboxed ) in Japan, accompanied by a 58-minute featurette shot in Tokyo entitled Dream Island by Sean Naughton, who had worked with Wenders on the HD sequences in Until the End of the World.

Anchor Bay Entertainment had once announced that it would be releasing the director's cut of Until the End of the World in North America, but has since changed ownership and interest in Wenders ' work was abandoned.

Wenders was born in Düsseldorf into a traditional Catholic family.

His father, Heinrich Wenders, was a surgeon.

Wenders was collaborating with artist / journalist and longtime friend Melinda Camber Porter on a documentary feature about his body of work, Wim Wenders-Visions on Film, when Porter passed away-the film remains incomplete.

Solveig Dommartin was Wenders ' actress girlfriend ; although the circus part required extensive and risky acrobatics, she was able to learn the trapeze and rope moves in only eight weeks, and did all the work herself, without a net.

That year, she was part of an ensemble of international actors in the French film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders, Beyond the Clouds.

Unlike the other major auteurs of the New German Cinema, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders, who started out making movies, Fassbinder's stage background was evident throughout his work.

The town was also a filming location for the movie Paris, Texas directed by Wim Wenders.

At NYU, he had studied under iconic director Nicholas Ray, who had brought him along as his personal assistant for the production of Lightning over Water, a portrait of Ray that was being filmed by Wim Wenders.

The Soul of a Man is a 2003 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders as the second installment of the documentary film series " The Blues " produced by Martin Scorsese.

He plays a film director in Dennis Hopper's ill-fated The Last Movie ( 1971 ); an Army colonel in Steven Spielberg's 1941 ( 1979 ); a war correspondent in his own The Big Red One ( scene deleted in the original release, restored in the reconstructed version ), a talent agent in his film White Dog ( 1981 ), and a cameraman in Wim Wenders ' The State of Things ( 1982 ).

Some scenes of the 1987 Wim Wenders movie Der Himmel über Berlin ( English title: Wings of Desire ) were filmed on the old, almost entirely void Potsdamer Platz before the Berlin Wall fell.

A brief reunion occurred, however, later that year for " Sax and Violins ," an original single that appeared on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders ' Until the End of the World.

Set on making his obsession also his life's work, Wenders returned to Germany in 1967 to work in the Düsseldorf office of United Artists.

Wenders has directed several highly acclaimed documentaries, most notably Buena Vista Social Club ( 1999 ), about Cuban musicians, and The Soul of a Man ( 2003 ), on American blues.

While promoting his 3-D dance film, Pina, Wenders told the Documentary channel Blog in December 2011 that he has already begun work on a new 3-D documentary, this one about architecture.

Wenders admired the dance choreographer Pina Bausch since 1985, but only with the advent of digital 3-D cinema did he decide that he could sufficiently capture her work on screen.

* Angels and the Modern City: Essay on Wenders ' film Wings of Desire

In 1996, Phillips released Omnipop ( It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop ), which featured a song co-written by R. E. M .. Phillips made a cameo appearance in the 1997 Wim Wenders film The End of Violence, singing part of the song " Animals on Wheels " from Omnipop.

Other younger film-makers allied themselves to this Oberhausen group, among them Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Herzog, Jean-Marie Straub, Wim Wenders, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg and Rainer Werner Fassbinder in their rejection of the existing German film industry and their determination to build a new industry founded on artistic excellence rather than commercial dictates.

The 2003 prize, presented by Wim Wenders, was awarded on April 29 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Cherry co-wrote and sang on " Wishing It Was " on Santana's 1999 album Supernatural, as well as in films such as Wim Wenders ' The Soul of a Man, Y tu mamá también, The Love of the Game, GO, Best Laid Plans, Holes, Billy Elliot and Over Her Dead Body.

German director Wim Wenders captured the performance on film, followed by a second concert in Carnegie Hall, New York City for a documentary that included interviews with the musicians conducted in Havana.

Shortly before his death he collaborated on the direction of Lightning Over Water ( also known as Nick ’ s Film ) with German director Wim Wenders.

Cult film director Wim Wenders shot one commercial in Iceland, starring actor Bryan Carney and actress Rebecca Godwin showing Carney riding a bicycle on a highwire over a waterfall.