Nick's Film - Lightning Over Water

1980

Action / Documentary

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 70% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 69% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 1748 1.7K

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Plot summary

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 (1983) 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.

Director

Nicholas Ray Photo
Nicholas Ray

Top cast

Nicholas Ray Photo
Nicholas Ray as Self
Gerry Bamman Photo
Gerry Bamman as Self
Martin Schäfer Photo
Martin Schäfer as Self
Ronee Blakley Photo
Ronee Blakley as Self
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1 hr 30 min
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1.51 GB
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1 hr 30 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by walter m 7 / 10

Lightning over Water" is an intriguing documentary/fiction hybrid

"Lightning over Water" is an intriguing documentary/fiction hybrid that begins with a jetlagged Wim Wenders arriving in New York to help his friend and hero Nicholas Ray complete one last film before he succumbs to lung cancer which he is in the painful final stages of. So while those preparations are being made, occasionally a handheld Super 8 camera is used to show the film crew working behind the scenes. While digressive at times, especially one sequence involving rehearsals for a Chekhov play, "Lightning over Water" has some very good thoughts on the subject of mortality and how truly inescapable it is. Not only that but the movie is also concerned with the changes that go along with the passage of time like when Ray and his crew travel to Vassar, now co-ed, to screen one of his old films. Plus, we are also treated to a neat view of bygone New York City, circa 1979.
Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

This is a wonderful companion piece to Bunuel's

This is a wonderful companion piece to Bunuel's Las Hurdes. While this seems to be more chaotic, it is obviously scripted, and both are savage in questioning the ethics and aesthetics of documentary film-making. It makes a fitting end to Nicholas Ray's career.
Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

Documentary of last days of directore Nicholas Ray

Documentary of last days of directore Nicholas Ray. It is sort of collebrative effort so that the whole film crew is credited as film makers. Wim Wenders is very much in the film and it doesn't follow any certain form and this makes it fresh and it hits emotional core of mine.
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