Thursday 15 October 2009

Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders): homage in links

Film Studies For Free was reminded by a blogpost ('Defenders of Wenders') by Richard Brody at The Front Row (New Yorker Magazine) about just what a great film Alice in den Städten/Alice in the Cities is (Wim Wenders, West Germany, 1974). It's certainly a wonderful film to teach, both in and out of its New German Cinema or 'cinema of the everyday' contexts.

Here, in its honour, is a little list of links to scholarly or good critical resources pertaining to it and to its director Wim Wenders' other early cinematic works.

2 comments:

girish said...

Catherine, if I may add: the wonderful audio commentary by Adrian Martin on the Australian Madman DVD of this film.

Adrian said...

Working on this terrific film was one of my most pleasurable audio commentary experiences - recaptured the thrill I had when I saw that film for the first time at the age of about 17 ! It holds up so well. And Catherine, do not miss the SIbylle Baier angle: the young woman glimpsed singing near the film's end, whose sole album of the period COLOUR GREEN (rescued a few years ago from private 'basement tapes', thanks to her musician son) is quite simply my favourite music in the whole world - amazing. Wim brought her back to the microphone for a new song on the soundtrack of PALERMO SHOOTING, and there may even be a new album in the works from her after 36 years, but she keeps her own time ...