SIGNED; Wim Wenders, Chris Sievernich - Nick's Film. Lightning Over Water - 1981

FANTASTIC COLLECTOR'S COPY:
Famous photobook by the legendary German film director Wim Wenders ("Paris Texas", "Himmel über Berlin", "Pina" (Pina Bausch), "The Salt of the Earth" (Sebastiao Salgado), "The Buena Vista Social Club", "Perfect Days"), also a great photographer.

BODLY SIGNED and with VERY BEAUTIFUL DRAWING by the artist.
I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE AND OF THE DRAWING.

The large-format book version of Wim Wenders' semi-documentary feature film about the last weeks of the American director Nicholas Ray ("For they know not what they do").
Wim Wenders visited his friend and colleague, who was suffering from cancer, in his New York flat and recorded the dying process of the passionate director with his camera.
Reportage elements alternate with play scenes, so that reality and fiction merge.

INSIDE AND OUTSIDE SUPER FRESH AND FLAWLESS CONDITION (much more better than usual).

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TRUE FIRST ORIGINAL GERMAN PRINTING.

A SECRET CLASSIC, AND A LOVING TRIBUTE FROM ONE FILMMAKER (Wim Wenders) TO ANOTHER (Nicholas Ray).
Shot in New York City and Poughkeepsie, NY.

Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main. 1981. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover (as issued). 230 x 310 mm. 352 pages. Printing: H. Staudigl, Donauwörth. Biography by Bernard Eisenschitz. Filmography by Käthe Geist. Introduction: Bernardo Bertolucci. Text in English and German.

Condition:
Inside and outside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Marginal trace of use; no remarkable flaws or defects. Overall very fine and better than usual condition.

Great art and photobook - with signature and with beautiful drawing by the artist.
Wim Wenders joins his friend and hero, director Nicholas Ray, in New York City to discuss Ray's dying wish to make a film about a painter with a terminal illness who sails to China to find a cure.

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders, born 1945, is a German filmmaker and playwright, who is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among the honors he has received are prizes from the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals. He has also received a BAFTA Award and been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Grammy Award.
Wenders made his feature film debut with Summer in the City (1970). He earned critical acclaim for directing the films Alice in the Cities (1974), The Wrong Move (1975), and Kings of the Road (1976), later known as the Road Movie trilogy. Wenders won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction and the Palme d'Or for Paris, Texas (1984) and the Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award for Wings of Desire (1987). His other notable films include The American Friend (1977), Faraway, So Close! (1993), and Perfect Days (2023).
Wenders has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), Pina (2011), and The Salt of the Earth (2014). He received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for Willie Nelson at the Teatro (1998). He is also known for directing the documentaries Tokyo-Ga (1985), The Soul of a Man (2003), and Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018).
Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy since 1996 and won an Honorary Golden Bear in 2015. He is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. He is considered an auteur director."
(Wikipedia)