Post by captainofbeef on Apr 28, 2010 12:25:13 GMT -5
Wings of Desire is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by the legendary Henri Alekan, is movie poetry. And it forever made the name Wim Wenders synonymous with film art.
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Wim Wenders (with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Audio commentary featuring Wenders and actor Peter Falk
* The Angels Among Us (2003), a documentary featuring interviews with Wenders, Falk, actors Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander, writer Peter Handke, and composer Jürgen Knieper
* “Wim Wenders Berlin Jan. 87,” an episode of the French television program Cinéma cinémas, including on-set footage
* Interview with director of photography Henri Alekan
* Deleted scenes and outtakes
* Excerpts from the films Alekan la lumière (1985) and Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois (1982)
* Notes and photos by art directors Heidi Lüdi and Toni Lüdi
* Trailers
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Atkinson and writings by Handke and Wenders
