Posted on 05/21/2017 1:04:33 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Pope Francis will offer his thoughts to the camera in a new documentary by Oscar-nominated director Wim Wenders, its backers have announced at the Cannes film festival.
“A Man Of His Word” will see the Argentine pontiff respond to questions submitted from people around the world, with US production company Focus Features billing the film as “the first in which a Pope addresses the audience directly, discussing topics such as ecology, immigration, consumerism and social justice”.
German director Wenders, who has been nominated for three Oscars including for his Cuban music documentary “Buena Vista Social Club”, said Francis was “a living example of a man who stands for what he says”. …
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Win Wenders is known for works of fiction.
He won’t be out of his depth here, in that case.
It sounds more like it will be an interview of George Soros. Well, I guess with Pope Francis it’s pretty much the same thing.
Which reminds me, whatever happened to Sally Jessie Raphael?
Bergoglio, destroying the Roman Catholic Church from within. Satan has a plan. Fortunately, so does God.
Awesome list. Never saw one of them, and now I won’t accidentally watch something by her.
“discussing topics such as ecology, immigration, consumerism and social justice”.”
This should be interesting.
NOT MY POPE!
Take a long walk off a short pier, you delusional Marxist freak pretender servant of George Soros
Actually a him, not a her.
Chuck Berry can be seen in concert in one of the road movies. Adds “authenticity” to the story I guess.
He was selling doomsday in 1991 with that end of the world film...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Until_the_End_of_the_World
Until the End of the World (German: Bis ans Ende der Welt) is a 1991 French-German science fiction drama film by the German film director Wim Wenders; the screenplay was written by Wenders and Peter Carey, from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin. An initial draft of the screenplay was written by American filmmaker Michael Almereyda. Wenders, whose career had been distinguished by his mastery of the road movie, had intended this as the Ultimate Road Movie.
Plot[edit]
In late 1999, an orbiting Indian nuclear satellite is out of control and predicted to re-enter the atmosphere, threatening unknown populated areas of the Earth. Mass populations trying to flee the likely impact sites cause a worldwide panic. Caught in a traffic jam and suffering from boredom, Claire Tourneur escapes the highway congestion by taking a side road. When she gets into a car crash with a pair of bank robbers, they enlist her to carry their stolen cash to Paris. Along the way, she meets a man being pursued by an armed party who introduces himself as Trevor McPhee, and allows him to travel to Paris with her. After reaching the house of her estranged lover, Eugene, Claire discovers that Trevor has stolen some of the money.
Claire then travels to Berlin and hires missing persons detective Phillip Winter to help her find Trevor through tracking his passport and credit card — he agrees to help when he finds out Trevor has a substantial bounty on his head. However, when Claire meets Trevor for lunch, she betrays Winter and attempts to escape with Trevor. Winter catches the two making love in a motel room, after which Trevor handcuffs them to the bed and escapes with more of Claire’s money. Winter, Claire and Eugene meet in Moscow to continue the search, and find out from Moscow bounty hunters that Trevor is actually Sam Farber, wanted for stealing the prototype of a secret research project. Multiple government agencies and freelance bounty hunters are chasing him to recover the device. Winter quits the job, intimidated by the even larger bounty on Sam’s head, but Eugene buys a tracking computer to help Claire. However, when the computer finds Sam’s location, she leaves Eugene while she thinks he is sleeping.
Following Sam on the Trans-Siberian Railway, she travels through China and reaches Japan, where she rescues Winter from a botched capture attempt at a capsule hotel. She finds Sam at a pachinko parlor rapidly losing his eyesight, and buys them train tickets to a random mountain inn. There, Sam reveals that the stolen prototype belongs to his father, Henry Farber and is a device for recording and translating brain impulses. He has been recording places and people around the world for his blind mother, Edith Jeanne Moreau, but the recordings are exhausting his eyes. After the innkeeper heals Sam’s eyes, he and Claire fly to San Francisco to take more recordings before heading to the Australian outback, where his father’s laboratory is.
Eugene, who had traveled to Japan only to be abandoned by Claire once again, teams up with Winter to capture Sam. Along with the bank robbers, they travel to Central Australia, but Eugene fights Sam upon finding him, causing both to get arrested. When Winter bails them out, they discover that the bag containing the camera was taken from Claire while she was drugged with sleeping pills. However, the bag also contains the original tracker attached to Claire’s bank money, which the bank robbers can trace. Claire and Sam take off in a small airplane to retrieve the camera.
When the Indian nuclear satellite is shot down by the US government, the resulting Nuclear electromagnetic pulse (NEMP) effect wipes out all unshielded electronics worldwide. Claire and Sam are forced to land the plane when the engine quits. They walk across the desert until they find the camera with the bounty hunter Burt. Reuniting with Eugene, Winter and the bank robbers, they travel in hand-cranked diesel-powered jeeps to the lab, which is sheltered in a massive cave.
Henry tries to synchronize the camera with Sam’s memory in order to transmit clean images to Edith’s brain, but Sam is injured and too tired to perform well. After father and son come to blows, Claire tries the experiment with her recordings to phenomenal success. It is revealed that Henry wishes to apply the technology to dream retrieval in order to win a Nobel Prize. However, Henry pushes too hard and Edith eventually dies of exhaustion. Eugene’s writer’s block seems to have been cured and he begins composing on an antique typewriter.
After Edith’s death, Henry begins working on how to record human dreams. The Aborigines disagree with his goals and abandon him, so he experiments on himself, Claire, and Sam. They eventually become addicted to viewing their dreams on portable video screens. Eugene finds Claire curled up in a rock crevasse glued to her screen and takes her back to the village, driving her into painful withdrawal when he refuses to replace the batteries for her screen. He finishes the novel about her adventure and gives it to her, curing her of “the disease of images.” Meanwhile, Sam wanders into the rocky desert labyrinths with his own screen and is ultimately rescued by the Aborigines. Henry is taken by the CIA while lying in the laboratory’s dream-recording chair. Eugene and Claire leave the village together but break up for good. Later, Claire becomes an astronaut and spends her 30th birthday as an ecological observer, orbiting in a space station. Eugene, Winter and the bank robbers celebrate with her by singing “Happy Birthday” over a video fax.
I THINK that I MAY have seen this one (I know I’ve seen maybe 2 others and neither were documentaries). If I did see “Until The End of the World” I remember it being as big of a cluttered mess as this plot summary makes it sound.
Sounds good enough to be on MST3K.
Sounds good enough to be on MST3K.
I wonder if this antipope will be the last pope. I suppose there will be popes until the money runs out or if muslims loot, overrun and destroy the place. But how long will that be?
I liked some of his early road movies...back in the day. I believe a lot of the credit for his movies has to go to his camera director (cinematographer, if you prefer the fancy term), Michael Ballhaus, though...who also worked to great success on more mainstream Hollywood productions. The man behind the man, as it were (not in a homo sense, mind you!).
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