Notebook on Cities and Clothes

Starring:Yohji Yamamoto
Studio: Anchor Bay
Product Type: DVD

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A posthumous homage!
Another great box set from Anchor Bay!!!

Wim Wenders Collection (The American Friend/Lightning Over Water/Notebook on Cities and Clothes)
Starring: Wim Wenders Collection
Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
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Wings of Desire
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ASIN: B0001LJCQQ
Release Date: 2004-04-06

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A posthumous homage!.......2006-02-15

When Nicholas Ray ` s creative spark was vanishing and the winter dreams arrived at the end of the road, Wenders inquired him to make the last documental-interview around his thoughts, points of view and other subjects in NYC .

Ray was dying of cancer but far to behave himself as a Romantic figure, Ray makes what a man must do: accept the death `s call and not to give up.

I still remember a smart statement of Bette Davis : "To get old is not for the weak people." And the undeniable talent of this German filmmaker this bold and painful testimonial will endure the sudden reverses of the forgetfulness and the fragile collective memory.

"The glory is the sun of dead" Balzac.

Another great box set from Anchor Bay!!!.......2004-04-21

This is one great box set from Anchor Bay!!! 3 great Wim Wenders classics in one great collection!!! Contains "Lightning Over Water", "Notebook On Cities & Clothes" and "The American Friend". Each film is personally restored by Wenders himself and lodaed with facinating new extras!!! Extras include:Commentaires on all 3 films by Wenders himself including one(The American Friend) with guest Dennis Hopper!!!,deleted scenes with commentary by Wender:on "The American Friend" and and "Notebook On Cities & Clothes" and "Nicholas Ray:Especially For Pierre"-a 38 minute lecture by Nicholas Ray(on "Lightning Over Water" and more!!! If you like Wim Wenders, you'll love this wonderful box set!!! Two thumbs up!!! Way up!!! Five Stars!!! A+

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Prophetic.
Superbly thought provoking
How to be an original in the postmodern world ...

Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Starring: Yohji Yamamoto
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
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Yves Saint Laurent - His Life and Times/5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
Unzipped
Ready to Wear
Fashion Victim: Killing of Gianni Versace

ASIN: B00006LPC7
Release Date: 2003-01-07

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Prophetic........2004-01-23

My original interest in this movie was Wim Wender's take on his own art-form and how he would see it develop in the near future. In his narration for 'Notebook', he tells of how his fascination with video comes about partly through its then total absence of form and grammar. 15 years down the line that's no longer the case as the plethora of reality shows will attest to.

At the time he made this movie (the late 80's), Wenders was asking some searching questions about the future of video and digital film-making. Questions that would eventually be answered by Lars Von Trier and his Dogme 95 rules, i.e. 'The Idiots' and Thomas Vinterberg's 'Festen'.

In 'Notebooks' Wenders finds his 35mm camera cumbersome and imposing. In contrast his video camera is more flexible and seems to disturb no-one. This then is the main focus of the documentary, the stark contrast between two forms of film-making, symbolized by the constant juxtaposition of Paris and Tokyo in the same shot. Paris shot in the classical style of his 35mm camera, almost cliched in its romantic results, while Tokyo vibrates with garish colours and a shaky hand (which in its own way has become a cliched style over 10 years later).

In fact most of Wenders thoughts about the future of image-making have more or less come true. He believed that the future authors of film would be the makers of commercials, video clips, electronic games and computer programs. Sadly insightful.

Superbly thought provoking.......2004-01-06

I bought my own copy of this movie after renting it. Like Latcho Drom, it's something that I've watched more times than I can count; each time, I come away with something new. Here, the meditations on who we think we are, and the shaping power of place in forming our identities (a power that's really thrown into question in our ever-more-placeless times), encourage me to think again about my own identity, and what shapes it.

There are other pleasures here as well, springing forth from the collaboration of two deeply thoughtful people, Wenders and Yamamoto. Among them--thoughts about how clothes "make the man" (or person); the paradoxical idea of fashion as an art form; how many people's work goes into making one person famous as an "artist"; whether Eastern or Japanese ideas of artistic identity differ from Western ones; and much more--you're sure to find your own themes. Some of the music is a bit overblown, but that's my only, slight reservation. The pace might seem slow, but if you slow down with it and let it speak to you (and think WITH you), you're sure to come away with a richer perspective on much in life.

PS--the DVD version has a good commentary overlay by Wenders.

How to be an original in the postmodern world ..........1999-04-14

The director of WINGS OF DESIRE and PARIS,TEXAS follows Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto around Paris, France and Tokyo (two of Wenders' favorite cities)to find out whether the concept of originality still has meaning in a world where almost everything is a commercialized copy. Wenders depicts Yamamoto and his work in much the same way he treated director Nicholas Ray in LIGHTNING ON WATER and Japanese director Ozu in TOKYO-GA. Wenders shows how Yamamoto can be both original and humane in the unlikely environment of the fashion industry, which has a reputation for exploiting the bodies it displays and equips. If you are interested in the question of Art in the Age of Reproduction, you'll enjoy this film a great deal.

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Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Director: Wim Wenders
Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
ProductGroup: DVD
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Widescreen Presentation (1.77:1) enhanced for 16x9 TV's.
Audio Commentary With Director Wim Wenders.
Twelve Years Later - Director and Designer Reunite.
Deleted scenes with Commentary by Director Wim Wenders.
Wim Wenders Bio.

ASIN: B000OC45VY

Product Description

Wenders meets renowned Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto to talk about their ideas on the creative process and to ponder on the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age.

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