Room 666 (1985) France, West Germany
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Director:Wim Wenders
Studio:Antenne-2 (A2)
Producer:Chris Sievernich, Michel Boujut, Claude Ventura
Writer:Wim Wenders
Rating:6.5 (711 votes)
Rated:See all certifications
Date Added:2015-04-28
UPC:3700301000484
Genre:Documentary, TV Movie
IMDb:0083727
Duration:45
Picture Format:Academy Standard
Aspect Ratio:1.33 : 1
Sound:Mono
Languages:English, French, German, Italian, Turkish, Portuguese
Subtitles:English
LAC code:300010671
DVD or VHS:DVD
Wim Wenders  ...  (Director)
Wim Wenders  ...  (Writer)
 
Wim Wenders  ...  Himself
Michelangelo Antonioni  ...  Himself
Maroun Bagdadi  ...  Himself
Ana Carolina  ...  Herself
Mike De Leon  ...  Himself
Rainer Werner Fassbinder  ...  Himself
Jean-Luc Godard  ...  Himself
Romain Goupil  ...  Himself
Yilmaz Güney  ...  Himself (voice)
Monte Hellman  ...  Himself
Werner Herzog  ...  Himself
Robert Kramer  ...  Himself
Paul Morrissey  ...  Himself
Susan Seidelman  ...  Herself
Noël Simsolo  ...  Himself
Chantal Akerman  ...  Herself
Steven Spielberg  ...  Himself
Bernard Herrmann  ...  Composer
Jürgen Knieper  ...  Composer
Agnès Godard  ...  Cinematographer
Chantal de Vismes  ...  Editor
Summary: During the '35th Cannes International Film Festival' (14th-26th May 1982), German director Wim Wenders asked a sample of 15 other international film directors to get, each one at a time, into the same hotel room to answer in solitude the same question about the future of cinema, while they were filmed with a 16mm camera and recorded with a Nagra sound recorder. In social sciences the goal of standardization is that each person is exposed to the same question experience, and that the recording setting of answers is the same, too, so that any differences in the answers can be correctly interpreted as reflecting differences between persons rather than differences in the process that produced the answer. The wide sampling frame in "Room 666" included European 'auteurs' and Hollywood directors, narrative and experimental filmmakers, male and female professional film directors that presented their films or were simply present at the 35th Cannes Festival in May 1982. The directors came from ...