Marta Balaga Three-time Oscar nominee Wim Wenders, the director of “Paris, Texas,” “Wings of Desire” and “Buena Vista Social Club,” joined the “Life Through a Different Lens: Contactless Connections” talk earlier this week.
Held by the Venice Film Festival and Mastercard, the virtual event allowed him to reminiscence about his beginnings. “I had no intention of becoming a filmmaker.
I wanted to be all sorts of things, from a priest to god knows what, and trying to become a painter I ended up in Paris. Where else?
That’s where I discovered the Cinémathèque Française, because I lived in a tiny, unheated room and the Cinémathèque was warm!”Soon, he started to pay attention to the screen as well. “The first retrospective I followed was.
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