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Jul. 30th, 2003 at 12:51 AM

From The Onion AV Club review of the Wings of Desire DVD:

Henri Alekan, cinematographer on Jean Cocteau's Beauty And The Beast, came out of retirement to give Wenders' film a luminescence that recalls early silents and German expressionism, with otherworldly shifts from fine-grain black-and-white to deep color...

Yeah! They are similar that way1

Yaaayyy! Wings of Desire is out on DVD!! (Rushing off to find my credit card.)

Current Mood: excited

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pir_anha

Jul. 30th, 2003 01:30 am (UTC)

WoD

oh, excellent!

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therealjae

Jul. 30th, 2003 03:40 am (UTC)

That film, to me, has the worst German-to-English title translation I've ever heard. A very thoughtful pun in the German (the sky over Berlin / heaven over Berlin) ended up sounding like a bad romance novel in English. Which is odd, because most of the bad title translations I know actually go the other way.

-J

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firecat

Jul. 30th, 2003 09:01 am (UTC)

I agree! But the English subtitles don't seem so bad, overall (then again, my knowledge of German is fairly sketchy).

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dawnd

Jul. 30th, 2003 09:33 am (UTC)

Ahh, yes, that does explain a few things. Wonder how soon Netflix will have this?

*clicks over to Netflix cue*

Thanks!

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eve_l_incarnata

Jul. 30th, 2003 10:43 am (UTC)

Ooooooooooh! Everyone who would watch it with me lives halfway around the world. It's good to know it's now on DVD though!

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firecat

Jul. 30th, 2003 12:58 pm (UTC)

Well, I'm not halfway around the world, but, well, yeah. And if we watched it at the same time in our separate living-rooms, that wouldn't be quite the same as watching it together.

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