{"product_id":"room-666-room-999-blu-ray","title":"Room 666 \/ Room 999 (BLU-RAY)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U9hEED3wFco?si=3l3AIh1ezy_fuDda\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked such filmmaking luminaries as Michelangelo Antonioni, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Yılmaz Güney, Werner Herzog, Steven Spielberg, and Susan Seidelman to ponder the question “Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?” Forty years later—adopting the same minimalist, fixed-camera format as Wenders—Lubna Playoust poses the same question to a group of contemporary auteurs, including David Cronenberg, Claire Denis, Asghar Farhadi, James Gray, Lynne Ramsay, and Wenders himself. Together, Wenders’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoom 666\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChambre 666\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and Playoust’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoom 999\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChambre 999\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) capture the unfiltered perspectives of pathbreaking filmmakers on the state of the industry as well as the upheavals brought on by various new technologies and methods of distribution—in the process touching on large-scale issues of politics, culture, and the meaning (and continued relevance) of cinema in two distinct eras, nearly half a century apart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoom 666\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?” At the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders invited fifteen other filmmakers to give their personal answers to that question. Their responses—recorded privately via a static camera inside a hotel room—form an enlightening, provocative, and philosophical reflection on the challenges then facing filmmakers and on the possible future of their industry. Featuring luminaries such as Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Steven Spielberg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Susan Seidelman, Yılmaz Güney, and, in his last interview before his death just weeks later, Rainer Werner Fassbinder,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoom 666\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoffers a uniquely candid look at the relationship between artists and their craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoom 999\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForty years after Wim Wenders asked leading filmmakers at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival to offer their thoughts on the future of cinema in his documentary\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoom 666,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eLubna Playoust poses the same question—“Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”—to a new generation of directors. Utilizing the same minimalist, fixed camera format as Wenders, Playoust invites thirty directors who attended the 2022 festival—including Claire Denis, David Cronenberg, Lynne Ramsay, Asghar Farhadi, James Gray, and Wenders himself—to give their unfiltered perspectives on the state of the industry. Touching on upheavals in the technology, distribution, and economics of filmmaking as well as on larger questions of politics and culture, their answers provide a thought-provoking exploration of the meaning and relevance of cinema in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\"\u003eINCLUDES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMeet the Filmmakers,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ea new interview with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoom 999\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edirector Lubna Playoust\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrailer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Janus Contemporaries","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44475067859144,"sku":"CCJF035BD","price":41.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/8486\/3688\/files\/room666room999bd.jpg?v=1740265970","url":"https:\/\/videomatica.com\/es\/products\/room-666-room-999-blu-ray","provider":"Videomatica Ltd (since 1983)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}