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English. German. Budget. $700,000 (estimated) Lightning Over Water, also known as Nick's Film, is a 1980 West German - Swedish documentary - drama film written, directed by and starring Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray. It centers on the last days of Ray's own life, who was already known worldwide for his 1955 classic film Rebel Without a Cause.
Nov 23, 1984 · Lightning Over Water: Directed by Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders. With Gerry Bamman, Ronee Blakley, Pierre Cottrell, Stefan Czapsky. Wim Wenders abandons the shoot of one of his own films in order to help his friend and fellow director Nicholas Ray create his swan song before he dies.
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- Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders
- 1984-11-23
Build 3fc55b6 (7699) Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a ...
Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is ...
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- Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders
Directed by Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray • 1980 • West Germany. Starring Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray, Susan Ray. Wim Wenders’s collaboration with legendary Hollywood iconoclast Nicholas Ray (THEY LIVE BY NIGHT, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE) is an unclassifiable fusion of personal documentary, film-within-a-film metacinema, and almost unbearably ...
Lightning over Water (1980) is the film made by some fraught combination of Ray and Wenders in the elder director’s waning days, as he slowly succumbed to the cancer that would claim his life before editing could be completed. Taking a break from the troubled Zoetrope production of Hammett (1982), Wenders flew to New York at Ray’s behest to ...
Oct 1, 1980 · The film was lovingly assembled by Wim Wenders, whose idolatry of Ray is obvious in virtually every frame of his own work. Dying slowly of cancer, Ray reflects on a lifetime of accomplishments, failures and compromises, with plenty of screen time given over to his reminiscences of Joan Crawford, James Dean and others who appeared in his films.
