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Until the End of the World
List Price: $19.98 Our Price:
VHS Tape - 24 March, 1995
Warner Home Video
Availability: Used and ThirdParty
Director: Wim Wenders
Number of Media: 1
Features: - Closed-captioned
- Color
- NTSC
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| VHS Tape Description Shot on location in numerous countries, this ambitious Wim Wenders fantasy takes Sam Neill, Solveig Dommartin, William Hurt, and a ragtag group in pursuit around the world and back again. Though set in 1999 under the shadow of impending disaster as a wobbly nuclear satellite threatens to Chernobyl the planet, the leisurely gait of their worldwide escapades has a distinctly '40s-era decadence. The ultimate object of their quest is a machine that records visual information from one person and reconstructs it in the brains of others--granting the miraculous power of sight to the blind for one thing, but even more mystically, enabling a person's dreams to be recorded. When the film seeks resolutions on the most intimate questions of the human soul which dovetail with the possibility of a destroyed world, the film is hampered by the VHS running time, which subtracts several hours from the laser disc version. But numerous joys, not least among them Jeanne Moreau and Max von Sydow as Hurt's parents, inhabit this thought-provoking film. --Alan E. Rapp |
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I love it even though it's long Just in case others are interested... it sounds unlikely that a US DVD will ever happen. For more info: http://wim-wenders.com/v-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=250
A most amazing film. I have watched it many times and would love to see it widescreen again one day.
an underappreciated classic It is simply baffling that this film is not available on DVD. It is a classic and beautiful film...raising the bar for what other artist directors can aspire towards. Invest the effort to track this film down and be rewarding with a new, wider horizon in your life.
Gets Better with Age Back in the 90s, I knew there was a new movie that U2 was providing the music for and I said great, can't wait to see it. Then I saw it... the US cut of Until the End of the World. And I said what? Why did I want to see this piece of crap? It made NO sense at all.
Flash forward to 2005. I hear there's a director's cut. I think, well, I'll give it a shot. Lemme be the first one to tell you... WOW! I'm glad I did.
Four hours and forty some minutes of bliss. (Though the last hour could have been whittled down a bit.) William Hurt is great, alternately obssessive and tortured, funny and sparkling. Not his best performance I've seen but top three. I cringed in the US version every time he came on the screen.
There's a lot more I can say but 15 years has given me a lot of good perspective, traveling around the world, growing as a person (I hope) and it's just one of those films that has to be seen to be believed. Or believed when seen.
I highly recommend this over three leisurely evenings (the Italian version comes on three DVDs) and the lack of English subtitles heightens the confusion that some of the characters feel over the course of the story. If you can get your hands on this, do. |
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