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

[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.