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Lightning Over Water (1980)
Directed by Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray
Overview
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.
Length 91 minutes
Actors
Wim Wenders | Nicholas Ray | Susan Ray | Tom Farrell | Ronee Blakley | Jim Jarmusch