2012年2月19日日曜日

OSCARS: Wim Wenders – ‘Pina’

Tim Adler is a contributor to AwardsLine Watching Pina, Wim Wenders’ 3D documentary about the abrasive-tender, jaunty-tormented work of choreographer Pina Bausch, it is ironic that the Oscars has only ever recognized this master German filmmaker for his documentaries. Buena Vista Social Club was nominated for an Oscar in 2000. And now Pina is up for the Documentary Feature Academy Award on February 26. Of course, there has been a non-fiction line throughout Wenders’ career. He started taking documentary photographs at age 7, and has made feature-length documentaries since 1980. Wenders himself says his fiction films have a documentary feel, while his documentaries always have a fairy-tale aspect to them — the Cinderella story of Cuban street musicians working as shoeshine boys elevated to playing Carnegie Hall in Buena Vista Social Club being a case in point. Actually, there’s a double irony here: Not only is Wenders, director of such seminal European arthouse movies as Wings of Desire and Paris Texas, most feted these days for documentaries but they are documentaries about other artists, arguably those with an even stronger artistic drive than his own: Willie Nelson, Ry Cooder and Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu are some of the artists he has made films about. There is a sense among people who have worked with him that his days as an auteur filmmaker ranking alongside such greats as Ingmar Bergman ... Read More »

Source: http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/oscars-wim-wenders-pina/

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