Until The End Of The Tape

[andygates]

I have a soft spot for Wim Wenders' millennial road-movie epic Until The End Of The World.  I like the lugubrious pacing, the gentle nihilism, and the sheer audacity of a movie that, halfway through, just abandons everything it was doing and becomes another movie.  It's got the right amount of near-future speculation, globe-trotting and expanding foam filler to keep my inner cyberpunk happy, too.

I never realised there was a director's cut!  Fully 280 minutes of Wim, wending his way around the world in a trilogy cut.  The question is - as it always is - is the long story the real story, or is this already-enormous movie just gaining two hours of indulgent flab.  Worth the risk, I think.

Comments

[despaer.livejournal.com]

That would have been a challenge worthy of you and Ciaran in your Cowper road days. That's nearly 5 HOURS!! Add in a bit to cue the thing up, plus going to the bog in the middle and I reckon you're about there

[andygates.livejournal.com]

That's as long as I spent *working* in my third year! :)

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

"Hi. It's hippy here. What day is it?"

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Those Tuesday video evenings were the closest thing I had to a temporal anchor. From Wim to Troma, but mostly at the very low end of the scale! :)

(I wonder if there was ever a director's cut of Rollerblade Warriors?)

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

!!!!

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Or Steel Dawn.

[xeeny.livejournal.com]

"I'm the Bounty Bear. I search them hear. I search them there. I can find them anywhere."

It still makes me giggle.

[xeeny.livejournal.com]

Bounty Bear can't spell very well though.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

I still do that spiel when I'm googling, sometimes.

"I've found them!"

(alas these days Technet articles, not technology thieves fleeing into apocalyptic Europe)