Lightning Over Water (Nick's Movie) (1980)

Original Title :	Lightning Over Water
Director :	Wim Wenders Nicholas Ray
Writer :	Nicholas Ray Wim Wenders
Genre :	Documentary
	Drama
Country :	Sweden
Language :	English
Producer :	Jonathan Becker , Pierre Cottrell , Laurie Frank , Renée Gundelach , Chris Sievernich , Wim Wenders
Music :	Ronee Blakley
Photography :	Edward Lachman Martin Schäfer
IMDB ID :	0081055
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Lightning Over Water (Nick's Movie) (1980) - Wim Wenders | Nicholas Ray

Starring

Gerry Bamman		Himself
Ronee Blakley		Herself
Pierre Cottrell		Himself
Stefan Czapsky		Himself
Mitch Dubin		Himself
Tom Farrell		Himself
Becky Johnston		Herself
Tom Kaufman		Himself
Pat Kirck		Himself
Edward Lachman		Himself
Martin Müller		Himself
Craig Nelson		Himself
Nicholas Ray		Himself
Susan Ray		Herself
Timothy Ray		Himself
Martin Schäfer		Himself
Chris Sievernich		Himself
Wim Wenders		Himself

Plot

Director Nicholas Ray is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film _Hammett (1983)_ in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.

Comments

still waiting for ai this is a film i forced myself to watch in order to complete a speech in german about wim wender's amerkiabild.it is all about the death of a cancer ridden man.that is about all of the plot i could figure out. the images, as is usual with wender's films, are striking and pungent to the hollywood-movie-goer senses.the scenes in this movie are about the slowest i have ever seen.i did find a few rewarding scenes here and there scattered throughout the chaos.the graduate monkey, the speech at vassar college, and the alarm clock scene to mention a few. that is about all i know on this one. i give it two riders of the apocalypse.