Or as Lester says, “It has to be a dialogue with Wenders and a reinvention of it. Often, in rehearsals, when we had a problem with the scene, we would go and look at the directions that Wenders was giving his cinematographer and his actors to see if there was any information there that wasn’t in the language of the screenplay. So Wenders was our Bible. But we had to both be faithful to it and smash it at the same time in order to be able to create it on stage.”
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- Flights of angels
In Wim Wenders’s iconic 1987 film Wings of Desire , the Berlin Wall is a character. In Ola Mafaalani’s theatricalization of the work for Toneelgroep Amsterdam and the American Repertory Theatre, the Fourth Wall is.
- Music and macho
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul a valiant effort by German-Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin to match what Wim Wenders did with Cuban music in Buena Vista Social Club : put the fabulously myriad sounds of Turkish music on the international map.
- Drifting
French filmmaker Claire Denis has acknowledged that a host of sources inspired L’intrus|The Intruder (January 25–February 9 at the MFA), the tale of a sickly, reclusive Frenchman, Louis Trebor (Michel Subor), who after paying hard cash and buying a new heart sails for the South Seas, vaguely in search of a lost illegitimate son.
- Spring boards
As the winter wind makes fast tracks, it leaves a burgeoning crop of ancient masterpieces, world premieres, farces, and musicals to blossom come April.
- Gray cowboy movie
Wim Wenders can drive me nuts.
- Ask the Dust
Robert Towne’s labor of love pays homage to a much-romanticized literary tradition, that of American fiction writing of the 1930s.
- Players and painted stage
It seems the fall theater season was shot from a gun this year, barely after the Labor Day picnic baskets had been packed away.
- War games
Wendy Wasserstein might have chosen a lesser light in whose shadow to cast a play than King Lear .
- Boston theater season announced
Boston’s biggest theatrical guns have announced what they’ll be showing next season, and it isn’t all Annie and Aeschylus .
- Club Marivaux
When Pierre Marivaux’s play Island of Slaves was presented at Versailles in 1725, Louis XV and his retinue were not amused, and it’s no wonder.
- Matter of characters
Two men are on the phone.
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