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1998 |
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PG-13 |
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114 minutes |
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Stadt der Engel |
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Brad Silberling |
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Dawn Steel, Charles Roven |
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Warner Brothers |
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Nicolas Cage, Andre Braugher, Dennis Franz, Meg Ryan |
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The dedication "For Dawn" refers to producer Dawn Steel, who died of a brain tumor before this film's release.
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Seth: What's that like? What's it taste like? Describe it like Hemingway.
Maggie Rice: Well, it tastes like a pear. You don't know what a pear tastes like?
Seth: I don't know what a pear tastes like to you.
Maggie Rice: Sweet, juicy, soft on your tongue, grainy like a sugary sand that dissolves in your mouth. How's that?
Seth: It's perfect.
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City of Angels Reviews |
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rec.art.movies.reviews newsgroup |
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First, this important preface: I love WINGS OF DESIRE. Wim Wenders' lyrical 1988 film, positing angels roaming through Berlin and one particular angel fascinated with the human experience, caught me completely by surprise when I first saw it. It was less a narrative than a visual tone poem of division -- between heaven and earth, between monochrome and color, between East and West Berlin -- which eventually finds unity. The experience, terribly un-critic-like though it may sound, was spiritually moving. That emotional response contributed significantly to me distaste for Wenders' own ill-fated attempt at a sequel, FARAWAY, SO CLOSE!; it similarly led me to dread the impending arrival of the Americanized re-make CITY OF ANGELS. Why re-make perfection, especially to engage in the typical Hollywood reductionism of making it all about the love story between the curious angel and his human object of desire?
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