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.

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[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)