Nick's Film - Lightning Over Water

Dir. Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray, English, 1980

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Wed 18 January 2012 // 19:30 / Cinema

The American director Nicholas Ray, mostly known for Rebel Without a Cause, is dying slowly of terminal cancer yet he stays at home with his closest friends. Ray reflects on a lifetime of accomplishments, failures and compromises, and reminisces about Joan Crawford, James Dean and many other Hollywood stars.

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'You needn't be steeped in film lore to appreciate the extraordinary emotions on which all this is strung. Even with its painful contradictions and discomfitures, it's that current rarity: one for the heart.'

- Time Out London

A clip with Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flxiW4A32Yw

The season poster, design by David Knaggs: http://artopolus.net/wim/wenders.jpg