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directed by German film director

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. During the

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, Wenders set up a static camera in room 666 of the Hotel Martinez and provided selected film directors a list of questions to answer concerning the future of cinema. Each director is given one

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reel (approximately 11 minutes) to answer the questions. The principal question asked was, "Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?" Wenders then edited this footage and added an introduction. Directors interviewed include

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, and

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, who died less than a month after filming. The film was later screened out of competition at the

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In order of appearance

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* Mike De Leon * Monte Hellman * Romain Goupil *

Susan Seidelman Susan Seidelman (Born December 11, 1952) is an American film director, producer, and writer. She first came to notice with '' Smithereens'' (1982), the earliest American independent feature to be screened in Competition at the Cannes Film Festiva ...

* Noël Simsolo *

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* Robert Kramer *

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* Maroun Bagdadi *

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* Yilmaz Güney

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* * 1982 films Films directed by Wim Wenders Documentary films about the film industry 1980s German-language films 1980s French-language films French documentary films German documentary films West German films 1982 documentary films Cannes Film Festival Films shot in France Films scored by Jürgen Knieper 1980s French films 1980s German films {{arts-documentary-film-stub