In his exhilarating new film, Pina, German master Wim Wenders captures the brilliantly inventive dance world of late avant-garde choreographer Pina Bausch who led the Tanztheater Wuppertal ensemble.

Wim Wenders has always been one to take the road less traveled—stylistically, if not literally. The German filmmaker (Buena Vista Social Club, Piña, The Salt of the Earth) is more recently known for ...

“Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.” This statement of purpose, at once urgent and evasive of reality, by the late choreographer Pina Bausch has been appropriated as the chief marketing line of Wim ...

Perhaps the reason that Wenders has incurred so much wrath as of late is because the director’s early films were so important to us; his ’70s masterworks “Alice in the Cities,” “The American Friend” ...

German director Wim Wenders’ new documentary film, Pina, began as a collaborative project between the filmmaker and the dancer/choreographer Pina Bausch. But only days before beginning the shoot, ...

So, when the 80-year old German filmmaker, one of the major figures in contemporary world cinema, sat down for an interview with The Hindu in Thiruvananthapuram, the first question inevitably had to ...

*Wim Wenders came to international prominence as one of the pioneers of the New German Cinema during the Seventies and is considered one of the most important figures in contemporary German film. In ...

The density of Anselm Kiefer’s art goes beyond the physical realm—it delves into symbolic meaning with his diverse processes and working methods, which span the alchemical, the artisanal, and the ...

Wim Wenders hadn’t entertained the notion of an audience with the Pope when the Vatican wrote him to ask if he’d be interested in helming a documentary on the current incumbent Pope Francis. But the ...

The legendary German filmmaker Wim Wenders, like fellow countryman Werner Herzog, has spent a career jumping between fiction and non-fiction. The “Paris, Texas” and “Wings of Desire” director has one ...

One of the giants of world cinema visited Seattle over the weekend. Wim Wenders is an Oscar nominee for his film PINA, a gorgeous 3-D documentary about a renowned choreographer. It’s playing at ...