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Wings Of Desire (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Open, When The Child Was A Child Spoken by Bruno Ganz as an angel called Damiel, composed by screenwriter Peter Handke and director Wim Wenders, the words are original though they suggest 1: Corinthians 13, the otherwise ethereal opening to the international hit Wings Of Desire, 1987, (the German title closer to Heaven Over Berlin), soaring over the then-divided city.

Wings Of Desire (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Less Effort, More Swing Now roaming West Berlin, angel Damiel (Bruno Ganz), who’s expressed broad discontent to a colleague, happens on a circus where Marion (Solveig Danmartin) is practicing, her first scene, in director Wim Wenders’ celebrated Wings Of Desire, 1987.

Wings Of Desire (1987) -- (Movie Clip) If Grandma Was Here Cutting from a plane over Berlin, another look at Bruno Ganz as (invisible) angel Damiel, as he sees and hears the thoughts of Peter Falk on board, sort-of playing himself, his narration mostly extemporized, after the shoot, in an L-A sound booth, guided by director Wim Wenders back in Germany, then observes other Berliners, early in Wings Of Desire, 1987.

Licence To Kill (1989) -- (Movie Clip) 555 Love Now in Isthmus (meant to be Panama, though shooting in Casino Español de Mexico, Mexico City) Bond (Timothy Dalton) and CIA Pam (Carey Lowell) make sure they’re seen by owner, drug-lord and villain Sanchez (Robert Davi, Anthony Starke his minion on the phone) and we meet singer Wayne Newton as televangelist “Professor Joe Butcher,” in on the scam, in Licence To Kill, 1989.

Veronika Voss (1982) -- (Movie Clip) They Don't Wish To Be Found After his strange second encounter with the title character, a past-her-prime film star with Nazi entanglements, sports reporter Robert (Hiilmar Thate) consults with a colleague (Elisabeth Volkmann) then meets an older couple (pre-WWII German film stars Johanna Hofer and Rudolf Platte) at her supposed address, in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss, 1982.

American Friend, The (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Let Me Love You For Your Money Wild intersections of personages and events, in New York, with Nick Ray as the forger “Derwatt,” Dennis Hopper as Ripley is not quite observed by Samuel Fuller, introduced here, shooting a porno, taking a call about a hit we’ve just seen committed by terminal patient Jonathan (Bruno Ganz)in Paris, who returns to his wife (Liza Kreuzer) and child in Hamburg, in Wim Wenders’ The American Friend, 1977.

American Friend, The (1977) -- (Movie Clip) What's Wrong With A Cowboy In Hamburg? With notes about the restoration, and calm and clever as can be, writer-director Wim Wenders opens his treatment of the unpublished Patricia Highsmith novel, in which he cast directors and actor-directors as the criminals, with Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley in New York visiting Nicholas Ray as the forger “Derwatt,” in The American Friend, 1977.

American Friend, The (1977) -- (Movie Clip) The Blue's Not Right Bruno Ganz as the Hamburg picture framer Jonathan, with Winter (the American singer David Blue) bidding, and Dennis Hopper quietly as the forgery purveyor (Patricia Highsmith’s “Tom Ripley”), Rudolf Schündler the owner of the house, Stefan Lennert the auctioneer and Lisa Kreuzer as the clerk, Jonathan’s wife, a finely wrought scene from Wim Wenders’ The American Friend, 1977.

American Friend, The (1977) -- (Movie Clip) My German Is Terrible Dennis Hopper in Hamburg as forgery dealer Tom Ripley (the character from a then-unpublished Patricia Highsmith novel) has grown interested in terminally-ill highly-regarded picture framer Jonathan (Bruno Ganz), after an unpleasant first encounter, Gerty Molzen the customer, in Wim Wender’s The American Friend, 1977.

Tea And Sympathy (1956) -- (Movie Clip) The Joys Of Love Tom (John Kerr) is on campus for a reunion, visiting his old lodgings, recalling himself, dubbed, singing a song based on an 18th century French ballad, and visiting with his new hostess Laura (Deborah Kerr, her first appearance), early in Vincente Minnelli's Tea And Sympathy, 1956.

Ben (1972) -- (Movie Clip) We're Talking Young Danny (Lee Harcourt Montgomery), who has a heart condition, and spends lots of time alone in his “work room,” doesn’t know that his new rat friend (title character!) orchestrated the murder of his previous human host, in Ben, 1972, sequel to Willard, 1971.

Ben (1972) -- (Movie Clip) I Never Saw People Look Like That A stand-alone incident, as the title (rat!) character leads his band to attack a grocery truck driver (Bern Hoffman), who is rightly panicked, then the crusty local newsman (Arthur O’Connell), spectators, and cops (Kaz Garas, Joseph Campanella) try to process things, in Ben, 1972, sequel to Willard, 1971.

Wings of Desire - (Original Trailer) An angel of death (Bruno Ganz) gives up his wings for love. Co-starring Peter Falk and directed by Wim Wenders.

Boys From Brazil, The - (Original Trailer) A Nazi hunter (Laurence Olivier) tracks a mad scientist (Gregory Peck) out to bring back Hitler.

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