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Lightning Over Water, also known as Nick's Film, is a 1980 West German - Swedish documentary - drama film written, directed by and starring Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray. It centers on the last days of Ray's own life, who was already known worldwide for his 1955 classic film Rebel Without a Cause.
Nov 23, 1984 · Lightning Over Water: Directed by Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders. With Gerry Bamman, Ronee Blakley, Pierre Cottrell, Stefan Czapsky. Wim Wenders abandons the shoot of one of his own films in order to help his friend and fellow director Nicholas Ray create his swan song before he dies.
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- Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders
- 1984-11-23
Lightning Over Water. Released Oct 27, 1981 1h 56m Documentary. List. 67% Tomatometer 9 Reviews. 70% Audience Score 500+ Ratings. The last months in the life of Nicholas Ray as seen by fellow...
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- Documentary
- Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray
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Currently you are able to watch "Lightning Over Water" streaming on Criterion Channel, TCM. Synopsis Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer.
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Lightning Over Water. Wim Wenders’s collaboration with legendary Hollywood iconoclast Nicholas Ray (THEY LIVE BY NIGHT, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE) is an unclassifiable fusion of personal documentary, film-within-a-film metacinema, and almost unbearably intimate meditation on mortality.
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.
