EXCLUSIVE: Perfect Days, the comeback feature from legendary German filmmaker Wim Wenders, has become boutique operator Curzon Cinemas’s longest-running film after passing 30 continuous weeks this past Friday. Perfect Days has played at Curzon Bloomsbury in London for 206 continuous days. The film…

RTL Deutschland Lands “Huge” ZDF Streaming Package German broadcaster RTL Deutschland has secured a “huge” package of series to stream from compatriot ZDF Studios. The deal comprises nearly 1,000 episodes, giving RTL+ a bump to its offer from September 15. ZDF shows such as Wilsberg, Der Bergdoktor…

The inaugural World Culture Film Festival kicks off in Los Angeles Thursday, a four-day event "dedicated to showcasing films that inspire, educate, and celebrate diverse cultures." WCFF opens with Oscar-shortlisted dramedy The Monk and the Gun, directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji. The Bhutanese filmmaker…

EXCLUSIVE: Wim Wenders' stunning documentary Anselm will begin streaming exclusively on The Criterion Channel this coming Tuesday, March 19, following its theatrical run and world premiere at last year's Cannes Film Festival. The film shot in 3D, which explores the monumental work of German-born…

Sandra Hüller (a Best Actress nominee) and Christian Friedel, stars of Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest — nominated for Best Picture, Best International Picture, Director, Sound, and Adapted Screenplay — are familiar with Shakespeare's famous verse from Hamlet: "All the world's a stage, and all the…

The German filmmaker Wim Wenders is up for an Oscar for his gorgeously shot Perfect Days, a film about a fastidious man (Koji Yakusho) who cleans toilets in Tokyo who finds happiness and solace in his mundane life. The film is a touching meditation on happiness in simplicity, and how routine sometimes…

While in England, German director Wim Wenders was sandwiched between a press tour and a brief lunch when a member of his team walked into the restaurant to secretly signal across the room that he was nominated for his first feature film Oscar with Japan’s Best International Feature Film, Perfect Days…

EXCLUSIVE: German director Wim Wenders has scored his best box office performance in 15 years with Japan-set, comeback feature Perfect Days, according to collated figures released by sales agent The Match Factory. Related Stories …

The Oscar-contending documentary Anselm marks an encounter between two of the world's great artists – one renowned for cinema, the other for painting, installations, and sculpture. The filmmaker, Wim Wenders, began his career more than 50 years ago, with credits that include Paris, Texas, Wings of Des…

Since 1979, Kōji Yakusho has played stressed accountants (Shall We Dance?), avenging samurai (13 Assassins), and convicted killers (The Third Murder). Now, in Wim Wenders' Tokyo-set film Perfect Days, the Cannes best actor winner gets to find a bit of peace and quiet, embracing the life of a toilet…

Japan has dominated this year's Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), with German filmmaker Wim Wenders' latest Tokyo-set pic and Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car follow-up taking the top prizes.  Wenders' Cannes competition title Perfect Days won APSA's Best Film award, while Hamaguchi's enigmatic…

Thierry Frémaux is best known internationally as the long-time head of France's Cannes Film Festival, which is organized out of its offices in Paris's trendy Marais neighborhood. The double-hatted cinema expert is perhaps more in his element in his home city of Lyon, where he is the director of the…