Original title: Room 666 / Room 999
Year: 1982-2023
Country: USA
Region code: A
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515312813
Image: 1.37:1 / 1.47:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio:
English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish (Room 666) - Stereo
French, English, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, Swedish (Room 999) - 5.1 Surround
Subtitles: English (Room 666 & 999)
Age rating: Not Rated
Genre: Documentary
Cast: -
Director: Wim Wenders, Lubna Playoust
Synopsis:
At the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked such filmmaking luminaries as Michelangelo Antonioni, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Yılmaz Güney, Werner Herzog, Susan Seidelman, and Steven Spielberg to ponder the question “Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?” Forty years later—adopting the same minimalist, fixed-camera format as Wenders—Lubna Playoust poses the same question to a group of contemporary auteurs, including David Cronenberg, Claire Denis, Asghar Farhadi, James Gray, Lynne Ramsay, and Wenders himself. Together, Wenders' Room 666 and Playoust's Room 999 capture the unfiltered perspectives of pathbreaking filmmakers on the state of the industry as well as the uprisings brought on by various new technologies and methods of distribution—in the process touching on large-scale issues of politics, culture, and the meaning (and continued relevance) of cinema in two distinct eras, nearly half a century apart.
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