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Wim & Music

Photo from Radio On, by Christopher Petit (1979)

The bond between film and music is a commonplace not just since the invention of sound film. Music was an integral part of the cinematic experience also in the so called silent ages of cinema – be it a grammophone playing the music, an organ or a whole orchestra accompanying the moving images.

From his first steps as a filmmaker on, back at the newly founded film school in Munich, the use of music was also an integral part in Wim Wenders’ film compositions.

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In most of his movies, sooner or later you will stumble upon a jukebox, a record player or a car radio serving the soundtrack for the pictures in motion. And in some cases music seems to be the motor that keeps the film in motion. You get this feeling from his early works on, where Wim Wenders often put all his favorite music into his films, making us listen to ‘his’ music while seeing with ‘his’ eyes.

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