Latest Wim Wenders News

We may be living in the golden age of older filmmakers. This year's Oscars are evidence

Feb. 28, 2024 15:07 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — When Hayao Miyazaki was contemplating whether he would come out of retirement in 2016, he put together a curiously self-critical proposal. “There’s nothing more pathetic than telling the world you’ll retire because of your age, then making yet another...

Movie Review: Wim Wenders' 'Perfect Days' is sublime

Feb. 05, 2024 10:11 AM EST

Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” is set among the crowded skyscrapers of Tokyo and the quiet urban parks that Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) traverses daily in his job cleaning public toilets. But where the movie resides, really, is Yakusho’s face. In this gently sublime film, Hirayama...