Room 666
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Overview
There was a general gloom at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. The feeling that the end of cinema was inevitable was roaming everywhere. Room 666 at the Hotel Martinez. Godard, Fassbinder, Spielberg, Antonioni, Herzog and other filmmakers gave a response to the question: "Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?"
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Review
After co-directing Lightning Over Water (1980) with Nicholas Ray in the United States and directing Hammett (1982), which gave him a taste of failure, and before making masterpieces The State of Things (1982) and Paris, Texas (1984), an idea occurred to Wim Wenders in 1982: to set a camera in Room 666 at the Hotel Martinez and pose the following question to the cineasts in the room. “Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?” Those in the room were given a roll of 16mm film, which rendered a maximum of 11 minutes to respond. This idea was born into the documentary Room 666, and thanks to the big names that visited the room, it eventually became a legendary film, although it was originally intended for TV. R. W. Fassbinder, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Steven Spielberg, Monte Hellman, Wener Herzog, Susan Seidelman, and others answered the question from their peer Wenders, leaving thoughts such as predictions, doubts, signs, and sayings about the future of cinema in their own way. (Sung MOON)
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Credit
- DirectorWim WENDERS
- ProducerChris SIEVERNICH, Gray City Inc. (New York)
- ScreenplayWim WENDERS
- CinematographyAgnès GODARD
- MusicJürgen KNIEPER
- EditorChantal de VISMES
- SoundJean-Paul MUGEL
- CastJean-Luc GODARD, Werner HERZOG, Steven SPIELBERG, Yilmaz GÜNEY, Michelangelo ANTONIONI, R. W. FASSBINDER, Paul MORRISSEY, Mike de LEON, Monte HELLMAN, Romain GOUPIL, Susan SEIDELMAN, Noel SIMSOLO, Robert KRAMER, Ana CAROLINA, Mahroun BAGDADI, Wim WENDERS
Film Source
Wim Wenders Stiftung
Director
Wim WENDERS
Born in 1945, Wim Wenders came to international prominence as one of the pioneers of World Cinema during the 1970s and is considered to be one of the most influential figures in contemporary German film.
