Speed Cinema Screening: Wings of Desire 10/27/18 7 pm

Directed by Wim Wenders

Wings of Desire is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, and dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by the legendary Henri Alekan, is movie poetry. 1987, Germany, 4K restoration, in German, English, French, Turkish, Hebrew, Spanish, and Japanese with English subtitles, 128 minutes. Rated PG-13.

Don’t forget to bring your Speed Art Museum membership card to verify your membership.