Wim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age.
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Title: Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989)
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Wim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age.
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fashion designer | fashion | video camera | tokyo japan | paris france |Genres:
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Yohji Yamamoto: Yeah, but our business it is very competitive. Because it's a... rat race about the amount of business; and we have to win. Because...
Wim Wenders: There's no second best.
Yohji Yamamoto: No. Be the best. We're the best. We're always talking that. And also you have to be very respectable... and good meaning. Because when you are researching about business; you can't make it big in business without any respect. So, you have to counter very well. Business ...
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written by Akira Miyoshi
interpreted and performed by Koichi Hamanaka & Kazuko Ninomiya
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Wim Wenders: I couldn't deal with all that pressure. You know, all that competition.Yohji Yamamoto: Yeah, but our business it is very competitive. Because it's a... rat race about the amount of business; and we have to win. Because...
Wim Wenders: There's no second best.
Yohji Yamamoto: No. Be the best. We're the best. We're always talking that. And also you have to be very respectable... and good meaning. Because when you are researching about business; you can't make it big in business without any respect. So, you have to counter very well. Business ...
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Fall In Mid Airwritten by Akira Miyoshi
interpreted and performed by Koichi Hamanaka & Kazuko Ninomiya
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20 December 1989 (France) See more »Also Known As:
A Notebook on Clothes and Cities See more »Company Credits
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Centre Pompidou, Centre de Creation Industrielle, Road Movies Filmproduktion See more »
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I can't say much about the movie. It is principally interesting because it shows the similarity of the creativity of two artists (a fashion designer and a film director) with the emphasis on the first one. It is in fact a creative documentary about the two of them. There was also an attempt to define fashion and identity in our modern world. It is a typical Wim Wenders movie. The photography is marked by his style. This movie or documentary becomes sometimes boring. The emphasis on the differences between the movie camera and the video camera was interesting but it was often tiring