Friday Night Flicks: Pina by Wim Wenders
Editor’s Note: Here’s the thing about content: there’s too much of it and most of it is absolute dogshit. You log online and spend two hours trying to find the least dogshit option, only to succumb to a brain-splitting headache, induced by the sheer terror of an overabundance of choice. To avoid this, we introduced Words to Live By where Eleanor Sheehan takes you on a media journey and decides the curriculum, so you don’t have to. For today, we’ll pull out a highlight so you don’t succumb to the void looking for something to watch tonight. Check them all out, but here’s a highlight.—Travis
Watch Wim Wenders 2011 Film Pina
It’s difficult to even describe what this film is. In short it’s a 2011 documentary by Wim Wenders about contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch.
But during production, Pina dies unexpectedly and the film is called off — until the dancers from Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal company convince Wenders that the show must go on.
The film becomes a collection of memories about Pina and some of the troops most iconic performances documented by Wenders.
It is mesmerizing cinema and one of those films you’ll talk about to everyone you see for weeks and weeks. And it’s about ballet!
