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  • "Though it ends on an impressively relaxed note of uncertainty, [Cowboy Angels] feels oddly detached, never capturing that vital sense of historical connection and spiritual camaraderie between people that is apparent in Wim Wenders's best movies."

    GreenCine Daily: Weekend fests and events. 2007

  • Solveig was in Wim Wender's Until the End of the World and Wings of Desire.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • The experience is initially unnerving, but once you get the hang of it, you start feeling like you’re part of some great undulating, pulsing virtual experiment — like that scene in Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire when Cassiel and Damiel wander Berlin hearing the innermost thoughts of everyone around them, except funnier and less pretentious.

    About Facebook 2007

  • The experience is initially unnerving, but once you get the hang of it, you start feeling like you’re part of some great undulating, pulsing virtual experiment — like that scene in Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire when Cassiel and Damiel wander Berlin hearing the innermost thoughts of everyone around them, except funnier and less pretentious.

    About Facebook 2007

  • Efforts to divert water away from the capital and speed drainage may help Bangkok escape widespread flooding, said Wim from the national flood center.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • The rest of the films could just as easily have been, from known quantities such as Wim Wenders's Pina and Guide favourite Attenberg to promising surprises like Argentina's florid revenge western Aballay and the realist Swedish 1970s drama Beyond.

    This week's new film events 2012

  • German director Wim Wenders will present his foray into 3D with "Pina," a documentary about the late German choreographer Pina Bausch .

    Repertory Film: A Final Festival Feast Steve Dollar 2011

  • As part of the ongoing retrospective series, these weekend screenings salute the power-trio of the 1970s German New Wave: Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders .

    Repertory Film: No-Holds-Barred Cinema Steve Dollar 2012

  • One of Harkness's more charming notions is that witches and demons, along with the odd vampire, are often found in libraries, the way angels haunt Berlin in Wim Wenders's "Wings of Desire."

    Books: 'A Discovery of Witches' by Deborah Harkness, reviewed by Elizabeth Hand 2011

  • One of Harkness's more charming notions is that witches and demons, along with the odd vampire, are often found in libraries, the way angels haunt Berlin in Wim Wenders's "Wings of Desire."

    Books: 'A Discovery of Witches' by Deborah Harkness, reviewed by Elizabeth Hand 2011

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