Lightning Over Water
Oct 01 1980
•2h 31m
•Documentary
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.
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Wim Wenders
Self
Nicholas Ray
Self
Susan Ray
Self
Tom Farrell
Self
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