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Lightning Over Water
- Director: Nicholas Ray; Wim Wenders
- Writer: Nicholas Ray; Wim Wenders
- Producer: Jonathan Becker; Pierre Cottrell
CGiii Comment
Biographers state that Ray was bisexual...Ray, himself, denied that fact.
The film itself is an abomination of a dying man whose career fizzled out years before...due to substance abuse - rendering him incapable of making anything worthwhile.
This film is not worthwhile - littered with scenes of his gimp-like son, his irksome daughter and the arse-licking Wenders - who has the presence of an amoeba.
This homage to the ever-smoking Ray is a remarkable example of self-importance and pompous sychophancy.
The result is an amateurish clutter of ideas without meaning - a sad epitaph for a director who had and lost it all.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Director Nicholas Ray is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1982) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.
Cast & Characters
Gerry Bamman as Himself;
Ronee Blakley as Herself;
Pierre Cottrell as Himself;
Stefan Czapsky as Himself;
Mitch Dubin as Himself;
Tom Farrell as Himself;
Becky Johnston as Herself;
Tom Kaufman as Himself;
Pat Kirck as Himself;
Edward Lachman as Himself;
Martin Muller as Himself;
Craig Nelson as Himself;
Nicholas Ray as Himself;
Susan Ray as Herself;
Timothy Ray as Himself