Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Peter Falk
Awards: Cannes (Best Direction, 1987)
Wings of Desire is a moody piece, shot largely without a script in post Cold War Berlin. With sepia tones, Wender follows two emotionless angels, Damiel and Cassiel in their mission to observe human behaviour. Eventually Damiel [...]
Wings of Desire (1987)
Das Experiment (2001)
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Starring: Moritz Bleibtreu
Based on the Stanford Prison Experiment and the book Black Box by Mario Giordano, Das Experiment follows the events of an experiment where 19 men are divided into prisoners and guards and tasked with role playing their mock occupations for two weeks.
At first the 19 strangers joke about their roles, [...]
Insomnia (1997)
Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg
Starring: Stellan Skarsgard
Having an obsession with film noir out of college, I immediately gravitated toward Insomina, when I heard the director’s aim was to turn the genre on its head. It was this visual style, using pervasive light in a disorienting and ubitiquitous manner, combined with the powerful performance by Stellan Skarsgard [...]
