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Wim Wenders

April 2024

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Best of frenemies: why Tom Ripley is a psychopath made for social media

    Peter Bradshaw
    Patricia Highsmith’s charming devil has fascinated film-makers since the 1960s, but his brand of evil seems peculiarly well suited to the Instagram age

March 2024

  • Kōji Yakusho sits naked in a public toilet/wash house in Tokyo in a scene from Perfect Days.

    Tokyo offers toilet tours amid flush of excitement over Wim Wenders’s Oscar hopeful

    Shibuya district is offering tours of its architect-designed public facilities that feature in Perfect Days
  • The director Wim Wenders and actor Koji Yakusho, whose film Perfect Days has been nominated for an Oscar.

    Make coffee. Shower. Clean the loo. In an age of choice, rituals are the key to happiness

    Tomiwa Owolade
    Wim Wenders’ film Perfect Days is on to something with its depiction of main character Hirayama’s calm, habitual life
  • Europe, Germany, Berlin, Director Wim Wenders in his Berlin office for the Observer New Review by Malte Jaeger, November 2023.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Observer Original Photography

    From film-maker Wim Wenders on shooting a movie in 16 days to actor matt Smith on friendship and fame: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in February 2024

February 2024

  • Kōji Yakusho, as Hirayama, in Perfect Days

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Perfect Days review – Wim Wenders’s zen Japanese drama is his best feature film in years

    The German director makes a strong case for simple living with this achingly lovely tale starring Kōji Yakusho as a Tokyo public toilet cleaner who finds quiet joy in the world around him
  • Cleaning up … Yakusho stars as Hirayama in Perfect Days, which won him best actor at Cannes.

    ‘If God is in everything, that includes toilets’: Kōji Yakusho on cleaning high-art loos in Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days

    The star of Tampopo, Babel and The Eel reveals how it felt to share the screen with 17 stunning Tokyo lavatories in this joyously strange, Oscar-tipped film about a cleaner
  • Wim Wenders photographed in his Berlin office by Malte Jaeger for the Observer New Review, November 2023

    ‘All my films deal with how to live’: Wim Wenders on Herzog, spirituality and shooting a movie in 16 days

    The veteran auteur on how film-making has shaped him, the brutal lesson he learned from teacher Werner Herzog, and why his Oscar-nominated Perfect Days will make you yearn for a simpler life

December 2023

  • A Black Jesus.

    A Black Jesus review – religious rites and refugees collide in Sicilian village

  • Anselm (2023) Directed by Wim Wenders.

    Anselm review – Wim Wenders’s immersive documentary is a treat for art lovers

May 2023

  • Film still: Perfect Days. Directed by Wim Wenders

    Perfect Days review – Wim Wenders explores a quiet life in Tokyo

    Bittersweet tale of an apparently contented toilet cleaner has an ambient urban charm, but feels a little too understated
  • FRANCE-FILM-FESTIVAL-CANNES-PORTRAIT<br>German director Wim Wenders poses during a portrait session on the sidelines of the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 18, 2023. (Photo by Julie Sebadelha / AFP) (Photo by JULIE SEBADELHA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Wim Wenders: cinema today ‘makes me nauseous’

    Director who won Palme d’Or for Paris, Texas and has two films at Cannes this year bemoans lack of new stories in mainstream film
  • Film still: Anselm Le Bruit du Temps (2023), directed by Wim Wenders

    Anselm review – Wim Wenders’ reverent 3D portrait of artist Anselm Kiefer

    The director’s serious examination of the German artist’s life and work has an architectural quality as it moves around some monumental art – and studios

January 2023

  • Preparing for Armageddon … Amy James-Kelly, Kate O'Flynn, Simon Bird and Harry Connor in Everyone Else Burns

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Simon Bird prepares for Armageddon in new sitcom Everyone Else Burns

  • A composite image of Cate Blanchett and Viola Davis

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links Cate Blanchett’s new film Tár to Sissy Spacek and hot sauce?

December 2022

  • ‘I’m a venal narcissist’ … Comedian Leo Reich

    2022 in Culture
    Through the looking glass: Guardian portraits of the year – in pictures

    From Steve-O and Samantha Morton to nudists and pigeon racers, here are the Guardian and Observer’s best portraits – and features – of the year

July 2022

  • Dean Stockwell and Harry Dean Stanton in Paris, Texas.

    Paris, Texas review – Harry Dean Stanton unforgettable in haunting classic

  • Director Wim Wenders photographed in London

    Wim Wenders: ‘When Paris, Texas won Cannes it was terrible’

June 2022

  • Bruno Ganz in Wings of Desire.

    Wings of Desire review – Wim Wenders’ elegiac hymn to a broken cold-war Berlin

    Shot when the city seemed forever divided by the wall, this intensely romantic story of an angel who longs for human love is unlike any other

November 2021

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Dean Stockwell: cult indie character actor who refused to fit in

    Peter Bradshaw
    At once an insider yet never quite Hollywood enough, Stockwell’s prolific career was at its best when he showed his own alienation

September 2021

  • ‘It was all silent, conversations would happen in whispers’ … a large-format photograph of the site by Wenders.

    9/11: 20 years later
    ‘A horn blew when human remains were found’: Wim Wenders’ six hours in the hell of Ground Zero

    After 9/11 the director felt haunted by the twin towers attack. As his epic photographs of Ground Zero go on show for the atrocity’s anniversary, he remembers the horrors of that day – and considers its legacy
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