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WIM WENDERS: HEART SLEEPING BEAUTY/MILLION $ HOTEL/BONO THE HEART IS A SLEEPING BEAUTY. THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL--A FILM BOOK. BY WIM & DONATA WENDERS. FOREWORD BY BONO. New York: teNeues, 2000. First Edition. Scarce. A nice copy of this very large and beautifully illustrated book. Such a nice copy is not likely to come up for sale again soon on ebay. From the Dust Jacket: "Hot on the heels of the wildly successful collection of stills from Wim Wenders' hit movie, The Buena vista Social club comes this volume of images from The Million Dollar Hotel. Wenders' newest movie, an enigmatic, eerily beautiful masterpiece that opened the 2000 Berlin Film Festival, stars Mel Gibson and Milla Jovovich and was produced and written by Bono. Set in a decrepit hotel in downtown Los Angels, this story of friendship, betrayal, and the power of imagination is seen through the eyes of tom Tom, a lovesick innocent whom we first meet as he jumps off the hotel's roof--and dies with a smile on his face. In a compelling flash back, we learn of a strange murder and the cunning detective sent to investigate it and are introduced to a series of fascinating yet downtrodden characters living on the fringe of society, but filled with hope and wonder. From the sublime first image to its final haunting shot, the incandescent beauty of Wim and Donata Wenders' photography fill every page of this beautifully produced companion volume that is certain to find its way onto the shelves of Wenders' any fans and into the collections of photography and film aficianados of all kinds." Contents include: Foreword by Bono; Once upon a time there was an enchanted hotel (the location); It was the home of a prince and a princess (the story); And so they all lived (working with Milla and Jeremy); etc. According to wikipedia: " Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945) is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer....Wenders began his career with the rise of the New German Cinema at the end of the 1960s, making his feature directorial debut with Summer in the City (1970). Much of the distinctive cinematography in his movies is the result of a highly productive long-term collaboration with Dutch cinematographer Robby M�ller . Some of his more successful and critically acclaimed movies, Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire , for example, have been the result of fruitful collaborations with avant-garde authors Peter Handke and Sam Shepard . Handke's novel, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick was adapted for Wenders' second feature film, The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty . Handke co-wrote the script for Wings of Desire and Until the End of the World , both featuring Solveig Dommartin .Wenders has directed several highly acclaimed documentaries, most notably Buena Vista Social Club (1999), about Cuban musicians, and The Soul of a Man (2003), on American blues.He has also directed many music videos for groups such as the British U2 and the American Talking Heads , including " Stay (Faraway, So Close!) " and " Sax and Violins ". His television commercials include a UK advertisement for Carling Premier Canadian beer.Wenders' book, Emotion Pictures, a collection of diary essays written while a film student, was adapted and broadcast as a series of plays on BBC Radio 3, featuring Peter Capaldi as Wenders, with Gina McKee , Saskia Reeves , Dennis Hopper , Harry Dean Stanton and Ricky Tomlinson , dramatised by Neil Cargill.Wenders was collaborating with artist/journalist and longtime friend Melinda Camber Porter on a documentary feature about his body of work, Wim Wenders - Visions on Film, when Porter passed away - the film remains incomplete.Wenders is a member of the advisory board of World Cinema Foundation . The project was founded by Martin Scorsese and aimed at finding and reconstructing world cinema films that have been long neglected. He serves as a Jury Member for the digital studio Filmaka, a platform for undiscovered filmmakers to show their work to industry professionals..."Also according to wikipedia: "... read more

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