On Film (Paperback, Main)

Wim Wenders's body of work is among the most extraordinary in modern cinema. It includes such films as Paris, Texas; Wings of Desire; Buena Vista Social Club, and The Million Dollar Hotel. Fortunately, his passion for cinema also extends to writing about it, and in this volume all his published essays on films and filmmaking—as well as his thoughts on such disparate subjects as rock 'n' roll, architecture, questions of German identity, and the influence of America—are brought back into print.

This volume collects three previously published books of his essays, interviews, and ruminations: Emotion Pictures, The Logic of Images, and The Act of Seeing. The writings range from the late sixties to the mid-nineties. Therein, Wenders discusses his development as a film-maker, from the moment he first picked up a camera aged twelve, through a searching self-analysis of the creative process behind each of his major films. They reveal his views on genres ranging from the American Western to the European avant-garde, along the way answering the deceptively simple question "Why do you make films?"