Flights of angels

Noting your review of the stage version of WINGS OF DESIRE [ a.k.a. Heaven/Sky Above Berlin], I thought I would let you know that appr. 3/4 of the original screenplay [a lovely published book, Suhrkamp Verlag] is by Peter Handke, and consists chiefly of a collage from his then [late 80s] work. Everything naturalistic is Vim Wenders, since Handke doesn't write naturalistic dialogue, except in quotes. I once wrote a long piece for the St. Monica Review, 1989 about deciphering and responding to the film, demanding to those who are habituated to the briefer periods of journalism; perhaps you even saw it since I think you were in L.A. at the time, to my amazement the L.A. Times favored something as demanding as that. Part of the piece is online at http://www.handkefilm.scriptmania.com which is a sub-site of: http://www.handke.scriptmania.com + 12 subsites, to prose, drama, film, etc http://www.handkelectures.freeservers.com will give you some idea of the rakes progress in that field, it is a work in progress for a summary piece on Handke's work for the stage. No doubt you got wind of the French controversy concerning the cancellation of "The Art of Asking", a very great play indeed, Handke's Faust... but then no one does the late Handke... As of "Walk About the Villages" except for "Hour", and that only because it is relievedly lacking in word that the modern ear really does not want to hear. If you are interested in the controversy, and some reasons why Handke is as it were preternaturally controversial you might want to take a look at the last page of http://www.handke.scriptmania.com it contains a 15 k piece on Handke and Yugoslavia and Handke and the big bad woolf from Belgrad. Or if you like I can send it to you as a p.d.f. since for some damn reason the site is balking at my trying to fit it into a more easily readable format. The site below has a book of mine, in German, on Handke, Dem Handke auf die Schliche, which is nearly entirely on-line now. http://www.kultur.at/lesen/index.htm http://begleitschreiben.twoday.net/stories/2504464/ -- MICHAEL ROLOFF Member Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute and Society http://roloff.freeservers.com/about.html http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/ http://www.artscritic.blogspot.com SCRIPTMANIA PROJECT MAIN SITE: http://www.handke.scriptmania.com http://www.handkelectures.freeservers.com http://summapolitico.blogspot.com "MAY THE FOGGY DEW BEDIAMONDIZE YOUR HOOSPRINGS!" {J. Joyce} "Sryde Lyde Myde Vorworde Vorhorde Vorborde" [von Alvensleben]