My backbrain went "Aha."
30 Jul 2003 12:51 amFrom The Onion AV Club review of the Wings of Desire DVD:
Yaaayyy! Wings of Desire is out on DVD!! (Rushing off to find my credit card.)
Henri Alekan, cinematographer on Jean Cocteau's Beauty And The Beast, came out of retirement to give Wenders' film a luminescence that recalls early silents and German expressionism, with otherworldly shifts from fine-grain black-and-white to deep color...Yeah! They are similar that way1
Yaaayyy! Wings of Desire is out on DVD!! (Rushing off to find my credit card.)