Maxflier

The DVDTalk Criterion Film Club selection for the second half of January was chosen by Ginwen:

Wings of Desire 1987

Synopsis:

gglass4269

ive heard nothing but good reviews about this. i hope my copy arrives soon.

Ginwen

So anybody watch this?

I watched it for the third time. I really enjoy it, even though not much happens and it uses some conventions I'd usually find kind of pretentious (the internal monologues) I still find it to be pretty affecting. Basically, in addition to being very watchable, while watching it and afterwards, it made me think about being in Germany in the early 80s, and where I was when I first saw it, where I am now, and what's next.

notkevinbacon

FYI... for netflix subscribers this is available to watch instantly.

onegin3000

Loving my netflix ps3 streaming right now - so much Criterion to choose from.

Trevor

Brilliant film.

Somehow avoided all the hype for this over the years. Well, not somehow, as I'm ashamed to admit that until the last few years I've always been a mainstream modern American film viewer. I have been accumulating and watching older and foreign films for a few years now, but have a backlog of hundreds/thousands of films to watch.

This is such a beautiful film, both the words and the pictures. It's poetry, the best kind of poetry.

I'm very empathetic by nature (yet, strangely, somewhat of a hermit), so the film was a roller coaster of emotions for me, as I found myself identifying with and feeling for both the humans and the angels.

Some of the Peter Falk didn't quite blow me away for some reason, not sure why. Maybe because I'm such a big Columbo fan, and the film was so close to perfect, I expected too much with it bringing in such a personal favorite.

I will break my usual rule of sticking to my unwatched library, and watch this again soon. This is a film that really made me think; about life, about death, about films.