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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.
Jul 28, 2014 · Research by Nasa shows lightning is more likely to hit land than sea and that it is rare for strikes to occur in deep ocean areas. Waters just off coasts are more often affected. Risks also vary...
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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- Documentary
- Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders
- 1984-11-23
Lightning doesn’t strike the ocean as much as land, but when it does,it spreads out over the water, which acts as a conductor. It can hit boats that are nearby, and electrocute fish that are near the surface. If you’re at the beach and hear thunder or see lightning, get out of the water.
Lightning Over Water is a scrappy movie, alternating between glorious 35mm shots of a vanished downtown Manhattan and all-too-raw video footage of the skeletal Ray, but it is a tremendously moving one, drawing its power from the sincerity with which it records its makers’ searching spirit: Ray trying in his last months to face himself ...
Made during the last months of Ray’s life as he was dying of cancer, LIGHTNING OVER WATER follows the two filmmakers as they set out to make a narrative film together—a project increasingly threatened by the older director’s failing health and by Wenders’s own ethical crisis over turning his camera on a dying man.
Lightning over Water (1980) is the film made by some fraught combination of Ray and Wenders in the elder director’s waning days, as he slowly succumbed to the cancer that would claim his life before editing could be completed.
