Wenders has been present at almost all of these screenings.

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.

Since 1996, Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin.

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.

As Wenders has explained, Antonioni rejected almost all the material filmed by Wenders during the editing, except for a few short interludes.

Also, filmmaker Wim Wenders has cited it as the film that got him started as a filmmaker.

Cooder has worked as a studio musician and has also scored many film soundtracks including Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas ( 1984 ).

Clément has appeared in more than 80 films and is most often remembered as the character " Anne " in the Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas ( 1984 ) which won the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Ganz made his film breakthrough in a major part in the 1976 film Sommergäste, launching a widely recognized film career in both Europe and the U. S. He has worked with directors Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Éric Rohmer, and Francis Ford Coppola, among others.

The studio has produced not only the films of Coppola ( including Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Tetro ), but also George Lucas's pre-Star Wars films ( THX 1138 and American Graffiti ), as well as many others by such cutting-edge directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, Wim Wenders and Godfrey Reggio.

* Wim Wenders is another European admirer of Ray's and has paid homage to him in many movies.

Produced by Colin Newman, with artwork by Eno / Sylvian collaborator Russell Mills, it has proved their most popular album, with tracks like " My Will ", " When I Go " ( which was included in Wim Wenders ' Wings of Desire movie soundtrack ), " The Traitor ", " Autumn Leaves " all of which became live favorites.

Kristel briefly apepars as Agent 34 ; an established cinematographer in the alternative film scene, Curaçao-born Robby Müller has repeatedly worked with Wim Wenders, Lars von Trier and Jim Jarmusch ; a director at the start of his career, Kees van Oostrum has moved to US to become a prolific cinematographer on various TV-movies and miniseries ; two-time Academy Awards nominated production designer Jan Roelfs, who worked with Andrew Niccol and Oliver Stone ; George Sluizer, who made an American remake of his popular culthit Spoorloos and currently works mostly on pan-European co-productions, will make a US-comeback with the Rob Schneider-comedy The Chosen One ( 2009 ); cameraman Rogier Stoffers, who shot a number of US box office hits in the 2000s, most notably Disturbia ; tall man Carel Struycken, whose physique landed him the parts of Lurch in Barry Sonnenfeld's The Addams Family films and The Giant in Twin Peaks ; Jany Temime was costume designer on the last three Harry Potter films, In Bruges and Children of Men ; Arjen Tuiten, a special make-up effects artist working for the Stan Winston Studio, with El Laberinto del fauno as one of his prominent credits ; Dutch born costume designer Elsa Zamparelli, who received an Oscar nomination for Dances with Wolves.

In addition he has appeared in two art films by German director Wim Wenders, Der Stand der Dinge and Bis ans Ende der Welt.

However, he continued to make films, including Beyond the Clouds ( 1995 ), for which Wim Wenders filmed some scenes.

Wenders ' film, also called Buena Vista Social Club, was released to critical acclaim, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary feature and winning numerous accolades including Best Documentary at the European Film Awards.

This led not only to more touring ( including playing at Carnegie Hall with the Buena Vista troupe ) and her appearance in Wim Wenders ' film The Buena Vista Social Club, but to two further albums for the World Circuit label: Buena Vista Social Club Presents Omara Portuondo ( 2000 ) and Flor de Amor ( 2004 ).

He wrote pulp novels, including The Dark Page ( 1944 ; reissued in 2007 with an introduction by Wim Wenders ), and screenplays from the mid-1930s onwards.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Wim Wenders directed the documentary film of the same name ( 1999 ), which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.

Wim Wenders, who had previously directed 1984's Paris Texas, directed a documentary film of the musicians involved, Buena Vista Social Club ( 1999 ), which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.

Working with low budgets, and influenced by the French New Wave, such directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg and Wim Wenders made names for themselves and produced a number of ' small ' motion pictures that caught the attention of art house audiences, and enabled these directors ( particularly Wenders and Schlöndorff ) into better-financed productions which were backed by the big US studios.

Wim Wenders ' 1987 film Wings of Desire uses sepia-tone black-and-white for the scenes shot from the angels ' perspective.

There was a further reunion in 1991 to record a track for the Wim Wenders film Until the End of the World, and Can have since been the subject of numerous compilations, live albums and samples.

Ganz then became known for his role in Wim Wenders ' Wings of Desire, as the angel Damiel.

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.

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 ).

* The State of Things ( Der Stand der Dinge ) Wim Wenders ( 1982 )

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.

During this time, Wenders became fascinated with cinema, and saw up to five movies a day at the local movie theater.

Wim Wenders at Cannes ( 2002 )

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

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 ".

Bausch died on 30 June 2009 in Wuppertal, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany at the age of 68 of an unstated form of cancer ( later reporting cites lung cancer after years of heavy smoking ), five days after diagnosis and two days before shooting was scheduled to begin for the long-planned Wim Wenders documentary.