Major career retrospective celebrates German Filmaker Win Wenders at MoMA

MoMA celebrates German filmmaker Wim Wenders (b. 1945) with a major career retrospective, from March 2 through 17, 2015. The exhibition, which includes 20 fiction and nonfiction films and numerous shorts, features the North American premieres of new digital restorations overseen by Wenders, as well as works that haven't been shown theatrically in New York in years. The retrospective captures the breadth of Wenders' career, from his 16mm experimental works of the late 1960s to his most recent nonfiction work, The Salt of The Earth (2014), a profile of the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado which is nominated for a 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary, won the Un Certain Regard special jury prize at the 2014 Cannes International Film Festival, and will be released theatrically by Sony Pictures Classics on March 27. Wenders, who will be awarded an Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement and is the subject of the Homage program at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in mid-February, will introduce a dozen screenings during the first week of the retrospective. On March 5 he will also join with his longtime collaborator Peter Handke—the Austrian author who coscripted 3 American LPs (1969), The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1971), Wrong Move (1975), and Wings of Desire (1987)—in an onstage conversation moderated by the writer Ian Buruma. Wim Wenders is organized by Joshua Siegel, Curator, Department of Film, with Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, MoMA; and Thomas Beard, independent curator. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Berlin International Film Festival and with Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen, and the Wim Wenders Stiftung, a Foundation. For more information visit: http://press.moma.org/2014/12/wim-wenders/