Until The End Of The Tape
Dec. 18th, 2008 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andygatesI 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.
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.
