Lightning Over Water

Year: 1980

Runtime: 91 mins

Language: English

Documentary

Director Nicholas Ray, facing terminal cancer, is determined to finish a last film. While Wim Wenders is shooting Hammett in Hollywood, he flies to New York to assist Ray in realizing his wish. Ray envisions a fictional story about a dying painter who sails to China seeking a cure, but they recognize the idea’s impossibility given Ray’s frail health.

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