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  The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

  The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

  Directed by Wim Wenders • 1972 • West Germany
  Starring Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar

  Adapted from a novel by Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke, Wim Wenders’s first theatrical feature crosses Hitchcock with Kafka for an arresting study of existential ennui, violence, and the lure of Amer...

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  Same Player Shoots Again

  Same Player Shoots Again

  Directed by Wim Wenders • 1968 • West Germany

  Wim Wenders’ second short film—and his first surviving work—is a fractured, experimental take on a crime thriller in which a single shot is repeated five times with five different color filters, a structure described by the director as having “a lot ...

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  Room 666

  Room 666

  Directed by Wim Wenders • 1982 • France, West Germany
  Starring Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog

  “Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?” At the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders invited fifteen other filmmakers to give their personal answers to ...