Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Hammett originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. Wim Wenders’ Hammett is a strange case. The very concoction seems off. Wenders had flirted with the noir territory with The American...
While his output could hardly be said to have slowed (aside from taking a year off in 2019 for the first time since 2007), it’d been six years since AFI Fest hosted two Hong Sang-soo films in the same festival....
Title: The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Year: 1972 Director: Wim Wenders Cast: Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar, Bert Fortell Synopsis: When disaffected goalkeeper Josef Bloch is dismissed from a game for committing a penalty, he finds himself...
Title: Hammett Year: 1982 Director: Wim Wenders Cast: Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Elisha Cook Jr, Jack Nance, David Patrick Kelly Synopsis: A fictionalized account centering on famed writer Dashiell Hammett that finds the author embroiled in a scheme...
Title: Until the End of the World Year: 1991 Director: Wim Wenders Cast: Solveig Dommartin, William Hurt, Sam Neill, Ryu Chishu, Chick Ortega, Max Von Sydow, Jeanne Moreau, David Gulpilil Synopsis: In this Homeric odyssey taking place in 1999, a...