Wings of Desire

“We should go to Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders, the great master filmmaker, Bruno Ganz as the angel in his beautiful big, flowy coat on the Brandenburg Gate. An unforgettable film with also a beautiful soundtrack, really says something about... About Germany and about Dreams and love.”

“Wings of Desire. This film changed my life. Wim had won the Grand Prize at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal in 1987. My film Family Viewing was an honorable mention. When he got up to the podium to actually accept his award, he had heard my film because it was announced before his prize, and he gave me his check for $5,000, and it was this huge, overwhelming, public event, and it changed my life. Suddenly it got all sorts of attention.”

“I think my last pick will be Wings of Desire. I remember I saw this movie in high school and my dad had this really beautiful comment about it where we were watching Peter Falk and that scene where he can't see the angel but he's talking to him and he's explaining how like you know it's like oh you don't know what it's like you know you have a nice you have a cup of coffee and you rub your hands for warmth see and you smoke a cigarette and he's like just basically explaining what it's like to...”

“I have a Blu-ray in my hand. I love this movie also, Wings of Desire. This was the movie that made me want to make movies seeing this.”