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Wim Wenders’ adaptation of Peter Handke’s The Goalie's Anxiety At The Penalty Kick in the New Directors/New Films at 50: A Retrospective Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art’s 50th New Directors/New Films to include a retrospective with free virtual screenings of Chantal Akerman’s Les Rendez-vous d’Anna; Sara Driver’s Sleepwalk; Christopher Nolan’s Following; Eduardo Coutinho’s Twenty Years Later; Horace Ové’s Playing Away; Charles Burnett’s My Brother’s Wedding; Gregg Araki’s The Living End; Humberto Solás’s Lucía; Mani Kaul’s Duvidha; Lee Chang-dong’s Peppermint Candy, and Wim Wenders’ adaptation of Peter Handke’s The Goalie's Anxiety At The Penalty Kick.

Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art’s 50th New Directors/New Films

Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta (Spain) will open the festival and Theo Anthony’s All Light,...

The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center have today announced the 50th anniversary edition of New Directors/New Films (Nd/Nf), this year available in both virtual and in-theater settings, marking it as the first New York City festival to return to live screenings since the pandemic began. This year’s festival will introduce 27 features and 11 shorts to audiences nationwide in the MoMA and Flc virtual cinemas, and to New Yorkers at Film at Lincoln Center. The festival will open with Amalia Ulman’s “El Planeta” and close with Theo Anthony’s “All Light, Everywhere,” both of which premiered at Sundance in January.

This year’s edition will mark the second time the festival has offered a virtual arm: the festival’s original March 2020 dates were postponed when pandemic shutdowns took hold, with the series eventually opting to go virtual for its 49th edition, rolling out last December.

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe awards season marches on—this morning's BAFTA's nominations highlight more of the usual suspects, meanwhile the Golden Globes embraced mediocrity full-stop this weekend with their crowning of Bohemian Rhapsody as best "Dramatic Motion Picture." You can find the rest of the Hollywood Foreign Press' frequently specious choices here.Recommended VIEWINGNow the good stuff: the trailer for Christian Petzold's latest bold interrogation of history and present, Transit. We also interviewed Petzold about the film and its unique transposition of World War II to modern day Marseille earlier this year.Jafar Panahi is back with a new mosaic of reality and fiction, 3 Faces, a portrait of three actresses personal worlds. Last October, Naomi Keenan O'Shea wrote about how "serves as an exemplary piece from which to reflect upon the continued political pertinence...

Wim Wenders's The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1972) is showing January 7 – February 5, 2019 on Mubi in the United Kingdom as part of the series First Films First and Wim Wenders: Journeys of No Return.I“For a moment the film was a smell, a taste in the mouth, a tingle in the hands, a draught felt through a wet shirt, a children’s book that you haven’t seen since you were five years old, a blink of the eye.

It’s like walking out of the subway into broad daylight.”—Wim Wenders, Van Morrison 1970 IIIn the May 1970 edition of the magazine Filmkritik, Wim Wenders wrote in a review titled "Emotion Pictures slowly rockin’ on" of a Grateful Dead album: "Slow and calm and melancholy movements and images." That same year he shot with Robby Müller his first feature Summer in the City—his graduation film—about a young man named Franz,...

A major talent of the New German Cinema finds his footing out on the open highway, in a trio of intensely creative pictures that capture the pace and feel of living off the beaten path. All three star Rüdiger Vogler, an actor who could be director Wim Wenders' alter ego. Wim Wenders' The Road Trilogy Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 813 1974-1976 / B&W and Color / 1:66 widescreen / 113, 104, 176 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date May 30, 2016 / 99.95 Starring Rüdiger Vogler, Lisa Kreuzer, Yetta Rottländer; Hannah Schygulla, Nasstasja Kinski, Hans Christian Blech, Ivan Desny; Robert Zischler. Cinematography Robby Müller, Martin Schäfer Film Editor Peter Przygodda, Barbara von Weltershausen Original Music Can, Jürgen Knieper, Axel Linstädt. Directed by Wim Wenders

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This morning I 'fessed up to never having seen David Lynch's Lost Highway. Now I get to say that until now I've never seen Wim Wenders'...

Wim Wenders started out as a painter, and one could argue that helps to explain a long-held fascination with landscapes that’s run through his career (and perhaps best exemplified in the recent “The Salt Of The Earth”). But the director, born in 1945, a key figure in New German Cinema and the holder of three Academy Award nominations (plus a Golden Lion, a Palme d’Or and an honorary Golden Bear from Venice, Cannes and Berlin respectively), has from day one been as interested in the people that fill these landscapes, and in the ways that they move. Wenders first came to the United States in 1972 with his second feature, the New Directors/New Films premiere of “The Goalkeeper's Fear Of The Penalty” and he never quite looked back. The journey seemed to trigger the restless wanderer in him and the painter-turned-filmmaker soon began a soulful and inquisitive examination of landscapes from America and beyond.

Kicking off later this month is a retrospective screening series of a filmmaker that more people should know about. His name is Wim Wenders, one of the major figures in New German Cinema, who has been making films for over 40 years. His most recent work includes the drama Every Thing Will Be Fine (which I saw in Berlin), his photographer documentary The Salt of the Earth (which I adore), and the dancer documentary Pina, which was filmed in 3D. The retrospective spans his entire career and will include screenings in 15 cities showing restored 4K or 2K versions of his early work, including Paris, Texas, Tokyo-Ga, American Friend, Wings of Desire and of course The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick. Catch a short trailer below. Here's the trailer for the Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road retrospective series, via YouTube: From YouTube: "This is a trailer for the Wim Wenders...

It was 1973 when German choreographer Pina Bausch became the artistic director of the Wuppertal Opera Ballet, where she would go on to transform the company with her radical approach to dance theater. One year prior, director Wim Wenders began making a name for himself stateside when his sophomore feature The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick played at MoMA’s New Directors/New Films. Twelve years later, their respective success was on the rise: in 1984 Bausch had her New York premiere at Bam (where she presented such seminalworks as Café Müller and The Rite of Spring), while Wenders won the coveted Palme d’Or for his masterpiece Paris, Texas. The following year, Wenders experienced Bausch’s work for himself—and when he did, he knew it would change his life.Wenders immediately arranged to meet Bausch for coffee and told her he wanted to collaborate. But it wasn’t until...

Ten strong line-up of titles unveiled; Wenders to take part in on stage conversation.

The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 5-15) has revealed the ten titles that will make up its Homage to German filmmaker Wim Wenders.

As previously announced, Wenders will also be awarded an Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the 65th Berlinale.

The award ceremony on Feb 12 in the Berlinale Palast will include a new digitally restored screening of The American Friend, Wenders’ 1977 thriller based on a book by Patricia Highsmith, which tells the story of a fatal friendship between two men, played by Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper.

“The American Friend was Wim Wenders’ international breakthrough film. And we were so impressed by the brilliance of the recently completed digital restoration that we decided to premiere it as part of the award ceremony for the Honorary Golden Bear,” said festival director Dieter Kosslick.

Wenders’ early work The Goalie’s Anxiety at the...

ROME -- Filmmaker Wim Wenders will head the jury at the 65th Venice Film Festival, organizers said Friday, extending a 35-year relationship between the German Oscar nominee and the Venice event.

Wenders first appeared on the Venice Lido in 1972 with Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty Kick), his first feature film. Wenders won the Golden Lion in Venice a decade later for Der Stand der Dinge (The State of Things), and he has taken home two sidebar prizes from Venice since then.

Wenders received an Oscar nomination for his 1999 documentary Buena Vista Social Club.

His nomination silences weeks of rumors that Meryl Streep -- another Venice regular -- was in line for the job as jury president.

He will preside over a jury that will pick a winner from a 22-film competition lineup that for each of the past two years was made up entirely of world premieres. He also is the first jury president of Marco Mueller's second mandate as the Venice artistic director.