On Film: Essays and Conversations

by Wim Wenders

A volume that combines three influential works on the cinema by Wim Wenders, one of the major international filmmakers of our time.

Wim Wenders' body of work is among the most extraordinary in modern cinema. It includes such films as "Paris, Texas"; "Wings of Desire"; "Buena Vista Social Club"; and "The Million Dollar Hotel," Fortunately, his passion for cinema also extends to writing about it, and in this volume all his published essays on films and filmmaking--as well as his thoughts on such disparate subjects as rock 'n' roll, architecture, questions of German identity, and the influence of America--are brought back into print. Including the essays that previously appeared in "Emotion Pictures," "The Logic of Images," and "The Act of Seeing," "On Film" discusses Wenders' development as a filmmaker from the time he picked up a camera at age twelve and offers a broad analysis of his guiding passions as he analyzes the full range of his work, film by film, and reveals his views on genres ranging from the American Western to the European avant-garde, along the way answering the deceptively simple question "Why do you make films?"

Genres: Film, Essays, Nonfiction

512 pages, Paperback

First published December 12, 2001

About the author

Ernst Wilhelm ("Wim") Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer. He was born in Düsseldorf.

Reviews

[Mark Mullee]

Thanks Amanda!

I had the pleasure of reading this collection of writings by day and by night attending at the Cine Dore the very films (by Nicholas Ray, Yasujiro Ozu, and Wenders himself) that many of the essays take as their subject.

[Gracie]

woahh i love him