Budapest Classic Film Marathon 2024: #666/999

Director: Wim Wenders & Lubna Playoust

Chambre 666 / Room 666

Directed and screenplay by Wim Wenders
Director of photography: Agnès Godard
Music by Jürgen Knieper
Cast: Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Spielberg

Chambre 999 / Room 999

Directed by Lubna Playoust
Director of photography: Marine Atlan
Music by Pierre Rousseau
Cast: David Cronenberg, Ruben Östlund, Paolo Sorrentino

The Sky Over Budapest – Focus on Wim Wenders

In 1982, during the Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders rented room 666 of Martinez Hotel in order to shoot a documentary about how fellow filmmakers saw the situation of film art. About 40 years later, Lubna Playoust did the same thing in room 999. The authors interviewed were given around 10 minutes to give their opinion. In 1982, among those answering questions were Godard, Fassbinder, Herzog, Spielberg and Antonioni. In 2023, Cronenberg, Farhadi, Luhrmann, Östlund, Sorrentino, and Wenders himself shared their views.

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