Lightning Over Water

Name: Lightning Over Water
Released: 1980
Rating: 58.16
Cast: Ronee Blakley, Gerry Bamman, Pierre Cottrell, Stefan Czapsky, Mitch Dubin

1980

Drama, Documentary

1h 31m

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. (imdb)

Lightning Over Water

1980

Drama, Documentary

1h 31m

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Stain

Rated 07 Feb 2008

Almost anything they could have shot would have been more interesting than what we get in this movie. We could have had a retrospective of the life and movies of Nicholas Ray. We could have had Wenders talking about how he came to admire Ray's work and later to meet him. We could have just had a couple of internationally acclaimed filmmakers just sittin' 'round talkin'. But no. Instead we have a lot of just wandering around... including TEN WHOLE MINUTES wasted on a performance artist

Rated 07 Feb 2008

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moraesfelipe

Rated 11 Nov 2011

Ray/Wenders film, like Nick's chaotic life, is an act of pure honesty, even though we sense everything here was scripted, acted, directed. This is when fiction gets bigger than life. And I guess Ray knew that better than any other filmmaker.

Rated 11 Nov 2011

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Suldrup

Rated 23 Aug 2010

Wenders' talent shines through in a few pure and hauntingly beautiful scenes, but on the whole I found the film to be a bit tedious and not fulfilling its potential.

Rated 23 Aug 2010

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