Is World On A Wire (Welt Am Draht) (1973) Worth Watching

1. World on a Wire (1973) - Letterboxd

  • Its 3,5 hour runtime might deter some modern day viewers from watching it, but they should at least give it a chance, because it's a very rewarding watch.

  • Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project.

2. World on a Wire - Rotten Tomatoes

  • Fresh score. No audience score yet. A scientific project to predict the future has strange effects on those who work on it.

  • A scientific project to predict the future has strange effects on those who work on it.

3. World on a Wire (1973) critic reviews on MUBI

  • There is not a dull frame in this 207-minute film, a threadbare masterpiece that positively revels in its lack of traditional "production values," not to ...

  • Critic reviews for the film: 'World on a Wire (1973)'

4. TV review – World on a Wire (1973) | The Kim Newman Web Site

5. World on a Wire: Smoke and Mirrors in Paranoid Unreality - Reactor

  • 8 mei 2024 · Rescued from obscurity and restored in 2010, Fassbinder's film is fascinating in its visuals and its philosophical exploration of virtual reality.

  • Rescued from obscurity and restored in 2010, Fassbinder's film is fascinating in its visuals and its philosophical exploration of virtual reality.

6. WORLD ON A WIRE/ WELT AM DRAHT – Part II (Rainer Werner ...

  • 25 apr 2023 · It has some attractive and skilled actors (Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio), a loud score, quick editing, a focus on the ...

  •   In the second part of WORLD ON A WIRE, Fred Stiller (Klaus Löwitsch) finds that an ‘identity unit’ called Einstein is the contact person a between his world and the computer program. But it …

7. World on a Wire (1973) Blu-ray review: “An exceptional restoration for ...

  • 20 feb 2019 · World on a Wire (1973) Blu-ray review: “An exceptional restoration for Fassbinder's astonishing labyrinth of reality” [Second Sight Films].

  • World on a Wire: The Limited Edition Blu-ray Box Set from Second Sight is out now.

8. World on a Wire (1973) | MUBI

  • 27 mei 2011 · Fassbinder's deep dive into science-fiction is a work of dazzling cinematic inventiveness, exploring with visionary satire the notion of ...

  • Somewhere in the future, a computer project called Simulacron is able to simulate a full featured reality. When project leader Henry Vollmer suddenly dies, his successor Dr. Fred Stiller experiences odd phenomena. There has to be someone behind all this. Could Simulacron be the one responsible?

9. Review: Fassbinder's World on a Wire (Welt am Draht) - Live for Films

  • 14 feb 2019 · Here's a remarkably unusual 1973 film by famous (and often infamous to some) film-maker Fassbinder, an intriguing slice of science fiction ...

  • Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Starring Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Wolfgang Schenck “The world in a [...]

10. Review on “Welt am Draht” (1973) for UPM59 Athens 2013 by Jakob Hartl

  • 7 dec 2013 · I enjoyed watching the movie especially due to the „heavy“, though fascinating, topic it deals with: Nothing less than our existence and the ...

  • This is a review on the German movie “Welt am Draht”, written by me in connection with the ATHENS-course “Rage against the Machines -Technology and its discontent” held in N…

11. NOTE: Despite the fact World on a Wire made its...

  • 28 jul 2014 · Watching Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire (Welt am Draht in the original German), one gets the feeling that this film, ...

  • NOTE: Despite the fact World on a Wire made its world premiere on West German television, it made its American premiere as a theatrical film at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). As per the rules...

12. "World On A Wire" - A Live And Memorex Or Crazy Future, In 1973

  • 25 jul 2011 · MOVIE REVIEW World On A Wire (1973) | Welt Am Draht Tethered Inside A Live? Or Memorex? Future Klaüs Lowitsch as Fred Stiller in Rainer ...

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13. DVD review: 'World on a Wire' - Los Angeles Times

  • 2 mrt 2012 · Among them is the 1973 “World on a Wire” (Welt am Draht), a two-part TV movie based on Daniel F. Galouye's science-fiction novel “Simulacron ...

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder (“Despair,” “The Marriage of Maria Braun”) directed more than 40 features and substantial TV projects between the age of 24 and his death at 37.

14. WORLD ON A WIRE (Welt am Draht, 1973) - Mondo 70

  • 17 mei 2012 · Still it's a film you can't dismiss. It's one of two Fassbinder films that could be referred to as an 'opus' though the other one is a stone- ...

  • T he American novelist Daniel F. Galouye was a contemporary of Phillip K. Dick and shared some of Dick's concerns about the vulnerability of...

15. Film Review: World on a Wire (Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

  • 25 jan 2012 · Technically, World on a Wire is one of Fassbinder's great achievements. The performances in this film are rock solid, which is pretty remarkable ...

  • “People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That’s the lesson.” —Rainer Werner Fassbinder While the above quote wasn’t written specifically in reference to World on a Wire, it may as well have been. Originally released as a two-part German miniseries that aired in 1973, Fassbinder’s sci-fi adaptation of criminally under-valued New Orleans author Daniel Galouye’s 1964 novel Simulacron Thre

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