The revered director talks about his friend Rainer Fassbinder, dealing with success and failure, and how he is like the angels in Wings of Desire – as a retrospective of his work comes to cinemas
was not merely a misstep but a final straw. “I had no talent for costume movies. It was a poor man’s David Lean. I had made three films which owed their style to the cinema I liked. I said: ‘I’m going to give it all up. If that’s film-making, I don’t want to do it any more.’”, his 1974 film about a writer put in charge of a precocious young girl.
He named his production company Road Movies, and road movie elements survive even in Paris, Texas, though that film is essentially a languid take on the western and especially The Searchers. Harry Dean Stanton, swapping John Wayne’s Stetson for a battered red baseball cap, is the loner who emerges from the desert, tracks down a “stolen” woman , then vanishes back into the wild again, just as Wayne did before him.
There’s a sense of preservation in my films: of landscapes, houses, characters. The act of filming is so precious
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