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...One title surprisingly absent in the Barbican’s celebration of city films is Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire (1987), in which the angels in the architecture are real....
...In the 100m race at 7pm on July 7 1924, the Briton Harold Abrahams (later immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire) won gold and the New Zealander Arthur Porritt won bronze....
...It prefigured the benevolent angels looking down from Berlin’s rooftops in Wim Wenders Wings of Desire: the sense that fate could be challenged....
...In a surprising week, the big names are disappointing (Wim Wenders unintentionally self-parodying in Don’t Come Knocking), the flashily publicised inept (not even Samuel L....
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