Wings of Desire and City of Angels (Ep. 90)

In this very romantic, very German, very arthouse episode of Adapt or Perish, we're looking at the very romantic, very German, very arthouse Wings of Desire, and its very Hollywood remake City of Angels!

In this episode we discuss:

• Wings of Desire (1987), directed by Wim Wenders, written by Wenders, Peter Handke, and Richard Reitinger, and starring Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, and Peter Falk
• City of Angels (1998), directed by Brad Silberling, written by Dana Stevens, and starring Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher, and Dennis Franz

Footnotes:

• "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls
• "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan
• Faraway, So Close! (1993)
• Paris, Texas (1984)
• Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
• Rebecca Schaeffer and Gavin de Becker's The Gift of Fear
• "Sincerely, Raymond Holt"

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