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Subject: Re: wings of desire
Date: 1999/02/05
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Ania Nowakowska wrote:

> Tom Dukovcic wrote:
> >
> > hehehe....exactly what I thought when I heard about them
 touring...yup,
> > it's gotta be done and, by golly, if it be your will...
> > Report to follow immediately post performance...(well, no point
 giving
> > it pre-performance, is there...).
> > Bill, while I'm here, I finally tracked down "Wings of Desire",
> > and...fuck me drunk!, I fell asleep! Couldn't handle the
> > sub-titles...few too many reds (wines, that is) to maintain that
 level
> > of concentration... well, maybe next time...from what I saw, though,
 I
> > prefered "Johnny Suede" (or whatever the correct title...).
>
> yeah, first time i saw 'wings of desire'... well i didnt. it seemed to
>
> start out very .. what's the word, not slowly because you cant use
> that
> kind of a description for a film of this nature, but it seemed
> dreary.and you're right, the white subtitles over the moving pictures
> are very hard to read at times. but let me tell you, my second attempt
>
> was very different.
>
> it's a beautiful, haunting film, very atmospheric, seductive. many
> times
> shivers went down my spine watching it and i was covered in goose
> bumps
> for most of it.
>
> try it again tom. and whatever you do DO NOT SEE CITY OF ANGELS (i
> boycotted it). it's apparently a take-off of 'wings of desire'.  how
> could anyone take meg ryan as a surgeon or something or other and
> what's-his-name nicolas cage as an angel, seriously?!?!

Wasn't City of Angels a make-over of Wim Wenders movie "Himmel uber
Berlin"?