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Room 666/Room 999

Wenders, Wim, (film director,, on-screen participant). Playoust, Lubna, (film director.). Denis, Claire, 1946- (on-screen participant.). Ramsay, Lynne, 1969- (on-screen participant.). Antonioni, Michelangelo, (on-screen participant.). Criterion Collection (Firm), (publisher.).

Summary: At the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked such filmmaking luminaries as Michelangelo Antonioni, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Yilmaz Guney, Werner Herzog, Steven Spielberg, and Susan Seidelman to ponder the question "Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?" Forty years later adopting the same minimalist, fixed-camera format as Wenders Lubna, Playoust poses the same question to a group of contemporary auteurs, including David Cronenberg, Claire Denis, Asghar Farhadi, James Gray, Lynne Ramsay, and Wenders himself. Together, Wenders' Room 666 (Chambre 666) and Playoust's Room 999 (Chambre 999) capture the unfiltered perspectives of pathbreaking filmmakers on the state of the industry as well as the upheavals brought on by various new technologies and methods of distribution in the process touching on large-scale issues of politics, culture, and the meaning (and continued relevance) of cinema in two distinct eras, nearly half a century apart.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9798886072716
  • Physical Description: videodisc
    1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: [Blu-ray version]
  • Publisher: [New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2025]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Room 666: Originally released as a documentary film in 1982.
Room 999: Originally released as a documentary film in 2023.
Special features: Meet the filmmakers, a new interview with Room 999 director Lubna Playout ; trailer.
Formatted Contents Note:
Room 666 / a film by Wim Wenders (1982, 45 min.) -- Room 999 / a film by Lubna Playoust (2023, 89 min.).
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Written and direted by Wim Wenders.
Participant or Performer Note:
Claire Denis, Wim Wenders, Lynne Ramsay, Michelangelo Antonioni, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard.
Target Audience Note:
Not rated.
System Details Note:
Blu-ray, region A; stereo (Room 666) and surround (Room 999); requires Blu-ray player.
Language Note:
Room 666: In English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Turkish with English subtitles.
Room 999: In French, English, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, and Swedish with English subtitles.

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Subject:
Motion picture producers and directors Interviews
Cinematography Germany
Genre:
Documentary films.
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Howe Library DVD FIC ROO 31254003961485 New DVDs - Main floor Checked out 01/27/2026

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