2017年10月19日 星期四

Wim Wenders’ 英文自述;INSTANT STORIES;Wings of Desire 等等。A. Camus

“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”

–Albert Camus, Summer in Algiers

The incredible Wim Wenders will be signing copies of his new book, 'Instant Stories' at The Photographers' Gallery. It's a photographic road trip through his life so far.
22nd October | 15:00 - 16:30


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrCUFfM7wEQ

Wim Wenders: Painter, Filmmaker, Photographer

Published on Nov 13, 2014
“The world was such a better world in paintings than in reality.” Growing up in post-war Düsseldorf, it was through paintings that German filmmaker Wim Wenders initially discovered the possibility of a different world. This would later come to define him not only as a painter, but also as a filmmaker and photographer, as he shares with us in this personal interview.

A painter at heart, Wenders initially regarded film and photography as a simple way to record his surroundings and the camera as an extension of his painting tools. What he discovered, however, was that the camera could depict something that paintings could not - time. To Wenders, each photograph is a sort of time capsule, frozen in time but with an incredible relation to its own past and future, inviting the spectator to see more than any film could ever show. His desire is for the picture to not only convey a story about itself, but also about the person who took it. “I’m looking strictly for what I can learn about us”, he emphasizes.

Common for Wenders’ approach to both film and photography, is the starting point in painting and in particular the concept of frames. He considers the frame to be the defining factor - if it is not in the frame, then it is out: “The frame is the main act.”

In the end, Wenders became a filmmaker almost without being aware of it, and the transition from painting to photography and films was complete, as he puts it: “Eventually I realized I was no longer a painter.”

Wim Wenders (born Ernst Wilhelm Wenders in 1945) is the director behind movies such as ‘Paris, Texas’, the story of a man who returns to retrieve his life after a four year absence, ‘Wings of Desire’ (‘Der Himmel über Berlin’), which features an angel who falls in love with a mortal and thus wishes to become human, ‘Faraway, So Close!’ (‘In weiter Ferne so nah’), where a group of angels again look longingly upon the life of humans, ‘Buena Vista Social Club’, which documents a group of talented aging Cuban musicians, and ‘Pina’, a tribute to the late German choreographer, Pina Bausch. He has received a multitude of international awards, including the Palme d’Or, the BAFTA and the Golden Lion. Since 1996 he has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin. Apart from being a highly praised filmmaker, Wenders is also an acclaimed playwright, photographer and author.

Wim Wenders was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at Kunstforeningen Gammel Strand. Most of the photographs shown in this interview are part of the exhibition: ‘Wim Wenders – Places, strange and quiet.’

Camera: Simon Weyhe
Edited by: Kamilla Bruus
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner, 2014.
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Supported by Nordea-fonden
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紐約藝術館裡的德國電影週

紐約現代藝術博物館舉辦德國導演溫·韋德斯電影回顧週。韋德斯是德國當代電影大師之一,也是德國新浪潮導演的重要代表。

溫·韋德斯
(德國之聲中文網)溫·韋德斯電影回顧周於本週一揭開帷幕。首先放映的是韋德斯(Wim Wenders)於1984年拍攝的電影"巴黎,德州"(Paris, Texas)。在為期兩週的電影回顧周中總共會展映20多部影片,平均下來每天放映2到3部影片。
韋德斯在1999年拍攝的紀錄片"樂士浮生錄"(Buena Vista Social Club)也在展映之列。這部影片曾經獲得奧斯卡電影節最佳紀錄片單元的提名。展映的影片中還包括"慾望之翼"(Der Himmel über Berlin,1987)、"咫尺天涯"(Der Himmel über Berlin,1993)以及一系列短片等等。很多電影在放映時將播出原音配加英文字幕。
韋德斯的最近一次公開露面是在今年的柏林電影節上。電影節放映了2015年韋德斯的新作品--3D版電影"一切都會好"(Everything Will Be Fine)。韋德斯還被柏林電影節授予終身成就獎。
今年8月,韋德斯將迎來自己70歲大壽。去年他拍攝的講述巴西攝影師塞巴斯蒂昂·薩爾加多(Sebastião Salgado)的紀錄片"地球上的鹹鹽"(Das Salz der Erde)還獲得今年奧斯卡電影節最佳紀錄片獎的提名。但是這部電影卻敗給了講述斯諾登和棱鏡門事件的紀錄片"第四公民"(Citizenfour)。但這也是第3部出自韋德斯之手在奧斯卡電影節獲得提名的電影。


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Wenders, Wim (2001), Once: pictures and stories, New York: D.A.P./Schirmer/Mosel, ISBN 978-1-891024-25-2

一次:影像和故事
Einmal:Bilder und Geschichten

作者: 溫德斯/著
原文作者:Wim Wenders
出版社:田園城市
出版日期:2005/
前好幾年,我買過一本Wim Wenders的中文書。不知為什麼沒留下紀錄。---我去查他出過的書:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Wenders
竟然也沒印象。
看過這部片:1984 Paris, Texas   也沒留下深記憶。

  • "Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins."

1985 Tokyo-Ga Documentary about Japanese film director Yasujirō Ozu


這次碰到他1987年的片子Wings of Desire。

Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire 1987 車禍者口中喃喃自語,提到 Albert Camus.......
1987Wings of DesireDer Himmel über BerlinWritten with Peter Handke. A guardian angel is tempted to prefer human experience over the outsider's immortality.
我到YouTube去看了他的拍片自述,以及約十個影片的段落,多有英文字幕,所以算是看了1/3~1/2片子了......



溫德斯的十五項電影完美守則!

德國名導溫德斯 (Wim Wenders)接下比利時知名啤酒Stella Artois (時代啤酒)廣告,他現身這支近2分鐘的廣告中,親自傳授十五項獨家電影完美守則。廣告搭上坎城影展熱潮,五月底開始播映。

溫德斯獨家電影完美法則(節錄)
1. 首先最重要的,要有一個很棒的片名(Title)。
2. 不一定要非常連戲(Continuity)。
3. 別指望在後期製作(Post-Production)搶救你的失誤。
4. 少上點妝,比較好!
5. 別讓動物入鏡,他們永遠不聽使喚。
6. 尊重你的演員,他們比你賣命多了。
7. 別引用別人的電影。
8. 如果別人來拍會更好,就別拍了。
9. 如果你討厭馬,就別拍西部片。
10. 別愛上自己的女主角。
11. 事情通常自己發生,接受並好好運用現場狀況。
12. 記住,別人也可能提出好的點子。
13. 得獎致辭儘量簡短。
14. 最後一個守則,就是沒有規則。
15. 噢對了,喊卡前多停個五秒,你永遠不知道會發生什麼事情!





譬如我看德國導演維姆·文德斯(Wilhelm Wenders)的紀錄片《尋找小津》,覺得在對小津的無限景仰里,顯然包含着對於小津電影里的世界不復存在的深切惋惜。可是若依佐藤忠男和「新浪潮」導 演之見,那個世界早就不復存在了,甚至根本沒有存在過。

1985 Tokyo-Ga Documentary about Japanese film director Yasujirō OzuWhat about the State Library of Berlin, a ‘60s design by Hans Scharoun where angels read the patron’s thoughts in Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire?
  • "I consider Ozu my all time grand master."



The western library played a starring role in Wim WendersWings of Desire. Two angels, the stars of the film, read the thoughts of the library's patrons.




13.01.2011
Bayreuth eyes Wim Wenders to direct Wagner's Ring cycle

Wim Wenders and organizers of the Bayreuth Festival are engaged in talks
for the renowned German filmmaker to direct "The Ring of the Nibelungen" in
two years time. It will be the 200th anniversary of Wagner's birth.

In 2011 he was selected to stage the 2013 cycle of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival,[3][dead link] a reflection of his capacity to produce imaginative tributes to great works of art.[4] The project fell through when he insisted on filming in3-D, which the Wagner family found too costly and disruptive.[5]

可在YouTube看/聽一些......
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.[6] He also has said that he will only be working in the 3-D film format from now on.[7] Wenders admired the dance choreographer Pina Bausch since 1985, but only with the advent of digital 3-D cinema did he decide that he could sufficiently capture her work on screen.[citation needed]







http://www.nccu.edu.tw/mobile/news_content/50a76cf817881c7fe8000289
當侯孝賢遇見文溫德斯 電影大師感性對談

2008-11-06
台灣電影導演侯孝賢。 攝影:林綺珊




德國新電影大師文溫德斯。攝影:林綺珊


【記者林綺珊採訪報導】「人生際遇,有時候很難說的。」台灣電影大師侯孝賢為自己至今的電影際遇,落下無解的結語。坐在一旁的德國新電影大師文溫德斯也感同身受,點頭不語。

由政大傳院頂大辦公室主辦的「大師工作坊」日前在政大傳院劇場,邀請兩位電影大師對談「為何要拍電影」,從尋找小津安二郎,論及作為陌生國度的觀光客,兩人不時相視而笑,頗有他鄉遇故知之感。

文溫德斯不僅是德國新電影導演,也是歐洲電影學院的主席,作品跨劇情片和紀錄片,獲獎無數。然而,這番經歷卻是20歲毅然決然放棄醫學和哲學,一心想成為畫家不成的文溫德斯從未想過的,這時考不進巴黎藝術學院的他,一天下來可在法國電影資料室看上5部電影,在來回電影院與廁所之間,他躲過查票員,也躲過這段晦暗抑鬱的階段,展開拍電影的人生。

如同瘋狂看電影後即把拍電影當成職志的侯孝賢一樣,文溫德斯也視日本寫實派導演小津安二郎為師,前者看《我出生,但…》大過影癮,後者則從《東京物語》見證天堂的存在,看見人際夾縫中的細膩情感。兩人一方面為小津安二郎拍片的細心感到望塵莫及,另一方面卻用各自的方法再現事實,在平凡生活的瓦礫中,致力挖掘深刻的足跡片段,向小津安二郎致敬。

除此之外,侯孝賢與文溫德斯的共通點還有「電影旅行家」,這個角色不畏遊走陌生國度,親臨不同文化的洗滌與撞擊,正因為截然不同的語言與價值觀,他們造出屬於自身的電影地圖。

即使如此,旅行的方式卻有千萬種。文溫德斯習慣跟隨地圖行走四方,每回前往新地方前,總要先透過地圖想像城市或食物、或交通狀況、或人民生活、或聲音的樣貌,然後把自己當做觀光客,一個人走過全然陌生的世界,文溫德斯說:「我想要呈現的,是以一個外來客、陌生者的角度觀看城市,不是當地人嚮導的通盤印象。」如同他的作品《里斯本的故事》,即以聲音建構城市。

相反的,侯孝賢則將自己融入在地生活。恍若一個當地人,他租公寓,觀察隔壁鄰居的上下班時間、生活習慣,甚至上廁所的方式,並且熟悉鄰近的菜市場、公共場域,想像並設計一個背景情境,最後因語言和思維的差異,他將對白還給演員,使其自由發揮,在衝突之下融合一部異國電影,如《紅氣球之旅》。

一向吸引小眾族群的電影導演文溫德斯與侯孝賢,雖對自己的作品「國內不買帳、國外讚譽有佳」的情形一笑置之,但侯孝賢率性地像在說一種自然而然的宿命,「有些東西現在沒拍到,遲早也會拍到。」而文溫德斯以一種歷史後設的角度泰然面對,「我相信10年、20年後再來看2008年的電影,留在人心中的會是一些具有靈魂的作品。」

文溫德斯小檔案
文溫德斯堪稱當今國際地位最崇高的德國導演,他曾與荷索、法斯賓達並稱「德國新電影三傑」,擅長以公路旅程檢視人際與孤獨,他的製作公司即取名為「公路電影公司」。他的作品獲獎無數,其中《巴黎德州》、《慾望之翼》、《咫尺天涯》分獲坎城影展金棕櫚獎、最佳導演、評審團特別大獎,《事物的狀態》則獲威尼斯影展金獅獎。唯二兩部在台灣戲院正式上映的《里斯本的故事》與《樂士浮生錄》都創下了不錯的票房。

侯孝賢小檔案
1980年完成首部導演作品《就是溜溜的她》,1983年另與導演萬仁跟曾壯祥合拍《兒子的大玩偶》,樹立「台灣新電影」風潮。20世紀90年代拍攝台灣三部曲(或稱悲情三部曲):《悲情城市》、《戲夢人生》、《好男好女》,更確立他電影大師的地位,其中《悲情城市》獲得1989年威尼斯影展金獅獎,更是將台灣電影一舉帶上國際影展的代表作品。其他代表作有《童年往事》、《戀戀風塵》、《海上花》(1998年)、《咖啡時光》(2003)、《最好的時光》(2006) 、《紅氣球之旅》(2007)。

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