By Wim Wenders
This publication is the spouse quantity to "Emotion Pictures". within the booklet Wenders strikes from a contemplation of natural cinema, to a attention and research of his personal motion pictures. starting with the query: Why do you are making films?, Wenders expresses his personal special approach to cinema. He then proceeds to debate the complete variety of his paintings, from "Summer within the City" and his early German movies, via to "Paris, Texas" and "Wings of Desire".
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So far everything seems to have spoken out against story, as though it were the enemy. But of course stories are very exciting; they are powerful and important for mankind. They give people what they want, on a very profound level - more than merely amusement or entertainment or suspense. People's primary requirement is that some kind of coherence be 54 IMPOSSIBLE STORIES provided. Stories give people the feeling that there is meaning, that there is ultimately an order lurking behind the incredible confusion of appearances and phenomena that surrounds them.
I'm not so worried, I said to him, because whatever happens on television, life will be going on somewhere else. Wherever life touches us most directly, that's where you'll find the cinema. And that's what'll survive. Nothing else. ROBERT KRAMER: I started off as a writer. I wrote novels, and I felt I was being shoehorned into an enormous tradition. The cinema offered me more freedom. There, there were no rules. That was my terrain. I could do what I wanted, just like the other film-makers. That's what cinema is.
A clear example is when you watch films on TV. The spaces are no longer evident, say the wide shots in Westerns. The rules have to be tighter because the viewer has to be tied to the thing more tightly. The cinema always kept this wonderful distance. But that's changing too now. New American films are just like television in the way they tie you to the screen. The loose bonds are getting tighter all the time. Yes, that's my impression too. They're trying to fill up the empty spaces in films with all kinds of ornamental bits and pieces, so that you're never just alone in front of the screen for a moment.