Lightning Over Water

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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 7, 2003
  • Originally Released: 1980
  • Label: Starz / Anchor Bay

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 658
Nicholas Ray tackles the subject of death with the objectivity of those who confront it, without losing courage when everything is lost. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review
El Pais (Spain)
Aug 15, 2019
Rating: 2/5 -- Lightning Over Water is chaotic, emotionally and esthetically.
New York Times
Oct 21, 2004
Rating: A- -- It's a fitting heartfelt tribute to Ray. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Apr 3, 2013
It is obviously a sincere homage from a younger director to the older man, but it remains dubious and smacks of exploitation. Full Review
Film4
Oct 21, 2004
Rating: 0/4 -- Unquestionably the worst movie of Wim Wenders' career and indeed one of the worst movies ever made... Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Dec 21, 2006
Rating: 3/4 -- Wenders adds in some cruddy early-80s video from time to time, and the film is an odd mixture of powerful emotions and rambling nothingness. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
May 26, 2006
Rating: 3/4 -- A poignant and often painful film in which Wenders and the terminally ill Ray attempt to make a film together in the last days before Ray's death in 1979. Full Review
TV Guide
Oct 23, 2007

Product Description:

Director Wim Wenders assembled this experimental project with the legendary American director Nicholas Ray. Shot as Ray was dying of cancer, the film finds him surrounded by family and friends as he reflects on his life and career. As he tells some amazing stories about his successes and compromises, it becomes clear that Wenders and Ray are creating something that is far more than a documentary, a film about a great artist and the nature of collaboration.

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  • UPC: 013131203394
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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