Episode 327: Wings of Desire (1987)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Wings of Desire, the 1987 film from Wim Wenders, stars Bruno Ganz as Damiel and Otto Sander as Cassiel, two angels out of many that watch over Berlin. They are immortal observers, watching the goings-on of the myriad people around them. Yet, they can never experience the full world in which the humans live. They know not taste, touch, feeling, or love...
Small Screen Cinema's Joe Yanick joins Mike to discuss Peter Falk, the sequel Faraway, So Close!, and the American remake City of Angels on this episode.
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1:14.6	Oh! The Welcome to the projection booth. I'm your host, Mike White. joining me is Mr. Joe
1:58.8	Yannick. It's good to be back. Not even that long since my last
2:03.1	appearance, so. This week we are looking at the 1987 film from director Vim Vendor's Wings of
2:08.8	Desire. The film stars Bruno Gans as Damiel and Otto Sander as Cassiel, two angels, out of many,
2:16.2	that watch over Berlin.
2:18.0	They are immortal observers watching the goings-on of the myriad people around them,
2:23.1	yet they can never fully experience the full world in which humans live.
2:28.2	They cannot know taste, touch, feeling, or love.
2:31.9	We'll be talking about the spoilers in regard to this film. It's sequel, Far Away So Close, and the American remake, City of Angels. So if you don't want anything ruined, please turn off the podcast and come back. We will still be here. So Joe, when was the first time you saw Wings of Desire? And what did you think? Yeah, I don't really honestly actually remember the first time I saw it,
2:52.0	but this time it had been, like this time around,
2:55.3	I'd actually caught a lot more.
2:57.1	I think I watched it a little closer.
2:59.6	I mean, I think that probably the first time I watched this was when I was like
3:03.6	marathoning like a bunch of European art house like early on in my like,
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