“When you travel a lot, and when you love to just wander around and get lost, you can end up in the strangest spots. . . . I don’t know, it must be some sort of built-in radar that often directs me to places that are strangely quiet, or quietly strange.” Wim Wenders—painter, actor, writer, and one of the most successful contemporary filmmakers around—has assembled a fascinating series of large-scale photographs taken from 1983 to 2011 in countries all over the world. From his iconic images of exteriors and buildings to his panoramic depictions of towns and landscapes, this book presents the full range of Wenders’s photography.

生命對我而言只意味著一件事：拍電影。－－米開朗基羅．安東尼奧尼
回顧這一天，我記起有幾次他的眼裡閃著淚光。
當一個鏡頭拍攝如他所期望地實現，
或是在一些誤解之後我們終於明白他的要求，
他就會感動。
甚至在準備階段，他眼裡的潮濕經常是我們方向一致的信號。
看到這個驕傲和「貴族氣」的男人，
一生中從不流露軟弱的跡象，現在卻是如此易感，有時那麼不堪，
這該讓我們都去思索一下自己的「堅強」。－－溫德斯
兩位電影大師、兩個獨立而頑強的靈魂，
在思想上碰撞，在藝術表現上激盪衝突，是電影史上獨一無二的生命交流……
「雲端上的情與慾」拍攝日記
導演簡介
米開朗基羅．安東尼奧尼（Michelangelo Antonioni）
世界著名電影導演。義大利二十世紀四Ｏ年代新現實主義電影的先驅者之一，曾被巴贊稱作「心理新現實主義」的代表人物。其做作品著重描繪中產與富裕階層人們的精神失落與荒蕪，以及在生活中充斥著焦慮的情狀，影片敘述常常以非戲劇性的衝突的人物心緒來鋪陳。
安東尼奧尼1912年出生於義大利北部城市費拉拉。1939年他來到羅馬的電影學院學習導演理論與拍攝，1940年擔任羅馬權威電影雜誌《電影》編輯，不久因為政治運動遭到解職。後曾擔任法國導演馬塞爾．卡內爾的助手，也為羅西里尼和費里尼寫過腳本。1943年他以第一部記錄片「波河的人們」奠定了新現實主義的先鋒地位。1950年拍攝處女作「情事」，這部電影被評介為「暗示新現實電影將給義大利新氣息」。1960年，他執導具有新穎風格和充溢現代感悟的「夜」
在坎城影展轟動國際。1964年他的第一部彩色片「紅色沙漠」獲威尼斯金獅獎。安東尼奧尼創造性的運用色彩作為這部影片的一個元素，被評論家認為「紅色沙漠」是電影史上第一部真正意義上的彩色片。1972年，作為關注學生運動的一名左翼義共導演，安東尼奧尼來到正處於「文革」期間的中國，拍攝了大型紀錄片「中國」。1985年以後安東尼奧尼因病很少拍片。直到十年後，他在溫德斯的協助下完成了寂靜迷人的「雲端上的情與慾」。
2004年，已逾九十高齡的安東尼奧尼仍繼續履行著他人生信條，「拍電影是我唯一的生存方式」，與王家衛、索德伯格聯合導演最新作品「愛神」(Eros)。
2007年七月三十日辭世，享年94歲。

Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.

1972 film by Wim Wenders

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.

本片是文德斯应尼古拉司·雷的邀请与其一同拍摄的纪录片，雷是美国著名的文艺片导演，最出名的作品包括《无因的叛逆》、《万王之王》等。本片真实地纪录了他生命最后岁月里的一些琐事，包括他本来要计划拍摄的绝唱，是关于一个画家远赴中国寻求医治良方的构思，但遗憾的是在纪录片还未发行前因癌症去世。本片忠实地描述了他对于死亡将临的感受。

1989 film by Wim Wenders

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.

Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009.

In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group's gigs in Amsterdam and New York City's famed Carnegie Hall, with director Wim Wenders capturing not only the music -- but also the musicians' life stories.

1985 film by Wim Wenders

Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...

Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

1993 film by Wim Wenders

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?"

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.