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Lightning Over Water (1980)

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Reviews Counted:7

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Rotten:3

Average Rating:5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Synopsis: Director Wim Wenders assembled this experimental project with the legendary American director Nicholas Ray. Shot as Ray was dying of cancer, the film finds him surrounded by family and friends as... Director Wim Wenders assembled this experimental project with the legendary American director Nicholas Ray. Shot as Ray was dying of cancer, the film finds him surrounded by family and friends as he reflects on his life and career. As he tells some amazing stories about his successes and compromises, it becomes clear that Wenders and Ray are creating something that is far more than a documentary, a film about a great artist and the nature of collaboration. [More]

Starring: Gerry Bamman, Ronee Blakley, Pierre Cottrell, Stefan Czapsky

Starring: Gerry Bamman, Ronee Blakley, Pierre Cottrell, Stefan Czapsky, Mitch Dubin, Tom Farrell, Becky Johnston, Tom Kaufman, Pat Kirck, Edward Lachman, Martin Muller, Craig Nelson, Nicholas Ray, Susan Ray, Timothy Ray, Martin Schafer, Wim Wenders

Director: Wim Wenders, Nick Ray

Director: Wim Wenders, Nick Ray
Producer: Chris Sievernich
Composer: Ronee Blakley

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Leo Goldsmith
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A poignant and often painful film in which Wenders and the terminally ill Ray attempt to make a film together in the last days before Ray's death in 1979.

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10/22/07
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Unquestionably the worst movie of Wim Wenders' career and indeed one of the worst movies ever made...

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12/21/06
David Nusair
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Wenders adds in some cruddy early-80s video from time to time, and the film is an odd mixture of powerful emotions and rambling nothingness.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Even with its painful contradictions and discomfitures, it's that current rarity: one for the heart.

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02/09/06
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08/03/05
Emanuel Levy
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It is obviously a sincere homage from a younger director to the older man, but it remains dubious and smacks of exploitation.

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10/20/04
Channel 4 Film

Lightning Over Water is chaotic, emotionally and esthetically.

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10/20/04
Vincent Canby
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