playlist #2
 

Posted on 15.10.2023

Each day, we feature one or more tracks from a film by Wim Wenders, for whom music is an integral part of the story. 

Last night sleep by Can in Until the End of the World.

There are people for whom life is easier - trying to imagine the music of the year 2000 ten years ahead of time, Wim Wenders simply had to open his address book to contact his friends from U2, or Patti Smith, David Byrne, Depeche Mode, Lou Reed, among others. Music from the future, perhaps not, but twenty or so tracks that make up an exceptional album. There is even a group that got back together for the occasion, for a last session before disbanding, the Germans from Can, who created a pulsating, percussive track that is totally their style. Can had already written the instrumental parts for the OST of Alice in the Cities, and keyboardist Irmin Schmidt, a disciple of Stockhausen, went solo to make additional music, for instance in Lisbon Story. A fan of 'krautrock' (in an interview, Schmidt said he would have preferred the expression 'schleu-rock'), Wenders (who also made a documentary on another Cologne band, BAP) was a pioneer listener of this precursor band, who have since been rediscovered at regular intervals thanks to their hit Vitamin C, most recently on the OST of Euphoria.

A. F.

SCREENINGS

Until the End of the World – Director’s cut by Wim Wenders (Bis ans Ende der Welt, 1991-1994, 4h47 – Part One 2h12, Part Two 2h35)
UGC Astoria – Sunday, 15 October at 2pm
Cinéma Opéra – Tuesday, 17 October at 7pm