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Lightning Over Water

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The film is a collaboration between Wenders and Ray to document Ray's last days due to terminal cancer in 1979. The film is partially an homage to Ray who had a strong influence on Wenders' work, and partially an investigation on life and death. Ray's influence on Wenders includes Ray's "love on the
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When Wenders goes to the Vassar campus to attend a lecture, a brief one-man performance is seen on-stage. It is Franz Kafka's story "A Report for an Academy", about an ape who becomes a man.
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has come out against Wenders' status as the sole co-director, saying that Wenders "used his celebrity" to push Jost and
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is named for the last spoken words in Ray's 1961 Biblical
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Nicholas Ray appears in a minor role in Wenders' film
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Wim Wenders
Nicholas Ray
Chris Sievernich
de
Gerry Bamman
Ronee Blakley
Stefan Czapsky
Edward Lachman
Peter Przygodda
Ronee Blakley
Road Movies Filmproduktion
West German
Swedish
documentary
drama film
Wim Wenders
Nicholas Ray
Rebel Without a Cause
1980 Cannes Film Festival
film noir
The Lusty Men
We Can't Go Home Again
Vassar College
The American Friend
Until the End of the World
epic film
King of Kings
Jim Jarmusch
Gerry Bamman

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