本片是文德斯为德国著名摇滚乐队 BAP 拍摄的纪录片短片，记录乐队在舞台、排练、旅途与后台的真实状态。影片以手持摄影、近距离跟拍的方式，捕捉乐队演出、旅途奔波、排练交流和日常生活碎片，聚焦音乐创作、巡演生活与乐队成员之间的关系。
风格朴素、纪实、贴近人物，是文德斯音乐题材创作中非常典型的一部，延续他对音乐、旅途、真实人物状态的长期关注。

这是一部讲述平凡人在日常生活中寻找美好的电影。主人公平山是一名清洁工，对于平凡而规律的工作生活感到满足。除此之外，他热爱音乐、书籍和拍摄树木的照片。一次意外的相遇渐渐揭示了他的过去…

文德斯描写了暴力的外在表现，试图从一个新的角度来探讨现代社会里的暴力问题。迈克·马克斯是好莱坞的电影监制，他成功地制作了一系列血腥暴力的动作片，成为电影圈名利双收权重一时的人物。
影片中与科技相伴随的不仅是疏离，还有暴力。马克斯用他的电脑制作暴力电影，而加布里尔·拜恩扮演的科学家雷被迫操纵着一套奥威尔式的监视系统，政府特工靠它可以希望可以如愿地消灭敌人。新的通信技术与其说是我们“疏离的现状”的象征，更是它的实际根源文德斯的这部作品有着针对加利福尼亚娱乐业的用心，影片展现了人类文化中暴力成分给予人的情感冲击。

一位德国成功的摄影师，他的电话还是响个不停，应酬还是没完没了。为躲避这些，他来到意大利南部城市帕勒莫，但是在这里他遇到了一个神秘杀手的追逐，与此同时，他遇到了新的爱情和新的生活。

Wenders' first full-length film was produced as his graduation project at the Academy of Film and Television in Munich ("Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München") which he attended from 1967 to 1970. Shot in 16 mm black and white by subsequent long-time Wenders collaborator Robby Müller, the movie exhibited many of Wenders' later trademark themes of aimless searching, running from invisible demons, and persistent wandering toward an indeterminate goal. In this case the journey is that of protagonist Hans (Zischler) after he is released from prison. Searching through seedy West German streets and bars, he finally winds up visiting an old friend in Berlin.

2000年，联合国在秘书长安南的主持下召开大会，宣布实施千禧年计划，旨在在2015年实现大幅削减贫穷比例的目标。具体关注8个方面：1）根绝世界极度贫穷的问题；2）实现全球小学义务教育；3）对抗艾滋、疟疾等流行病；4）推广性别平等与女权；5）正视全球环境及气候变迁；6）降低幼儿死亡率；7）关注妇女孕期保健；8）建立全球伙伴关系。8位知名导演各以一个方面为主体，分别执导了8部短片，旨在推动千禧年计划的进行。
导演及作品如下，阿布代拉曼·西塞克：《蒂娅的梦想》、盖尔·加西亚·贝纳尔：《信》、米拉·奈尔：《怎么可能》、格桑·范·斯特：《小山上的大厦》、让·库南：《潘辛贝卡的故事》、加斯帕·诺：《SIDA》、简·康萍：《水日记》、维姆·文德斯：《面对面》。

尚且在筹备阶段的维姆·文德斯新片《The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez》已成戛纳香饽饽，交易市场上意大利、巴西、希腊都已超前买下发行权。影片剧本由与文德斯合作《柏林苍穹下》的彼得·汉德克撰写，故事讲述一对男女在夏日傍晚分享彼此对于爱与自由的看法。影片将于6月份开始制作。

纪录片围绕教皇方济各的经历展开。从他对穷人和财富不平等点切入，到他对环境问题和社会正义的参与等一系列事件来展现教皇方济各的方方面面。影片由焦点影业打造。

文德斯继《寻找小津》后又一部将镜头对准东京的纪录片，这次讲述了一位非常著名的时装设计师和一个电影导演（他自己）之间的对话，谈及两位不同艺术创作者之间创作道路的异同和他们所面临的创作困惑，提出了对于城市、身份认同与数字化时代电影的关系等命题。

"Actually, Schauplätze didn’t get lost completely. Two shot were left, and they’re now the first two shots in Same Player Shoots Again. In a way, they’re a prelude to it – or rather its antecedents. They come before the credit title. And the rest of the film, after the title, is just one three-minute shot that’s repeated five times. It was shot in black-and-white and its repeated five times, but always in a slightly different color. I mean its not really colored, just a little bit blue and a little bit red and a little bit green along the street."
"At first, you only see his feet. He’s wearing a long coat, and later you can see up to his waist. He has a machine-gun in one hand and he begins walking fast, then he slowly begins to run and he stumbles more and more, as if he were hurt or wounded. He doesn’t actually fall. You just see him running. You see the coat and the machine-gun and his feet. And in the end, the film starts again from the beginning. Its somewhat different from those loop films that were in vogue at the time – those were without an end and you could watch them indefinitely. Whereas in Sam Player Shoots Again, there was a development and there was a new beginning each time."
"For me, it had a lot to do with pinball machines – I mean a game where you have five balls (you used to have five balls, now you only get three). At the time, you had five balls and five games, and that’s a little bit the structure of Same Player Shoots Again. Visually, its as if you had five balls. In fact, that was the idea, to edit it this way. It had some music, too, music I found on an old 78 record that was called Mood Music ad it sounded like music from an unknown Hitchcock film. I used two small pieces of it – one of 10, and one of 15 seconds, one in the beginning of the shot and one at the end – that is to say – the two pieces of music were repeated as well."

母亲去世后，拉娜（米歇尔·威廉姆斯 Michelle Williams 饰）千里迢迢来到洛杉矶寻找自己的舅舅保罗（约翰·迪尔 John Diehl 饰），对于十八岁的拉娜来说，这趟旅程有着特殊的意义，它意味着拉娜必须抛弃过往的自己，向着更好更富有的新生活发起挑战，然而现实真的能够如同拉娜设想的一般美好吗？
保罗是一名退役老兵，但在他的内心里，保家卫国依旧是他生命中的重中之重，即便深受战争后遗症的折磨和困扰，他对国家的忠心耿耿也没有半分的改变，即便这样的忠心并没有为他带来任何好运。就这样，在偌大的天使之城中，两个内心孤独的人相遇了，拉娜开始了和保罗在一起的生活。

本片是文德斯应尼古拉司·雷的邀请与其一同拍摄的纪录片，雷是美国著名的文艺片导演，最出名的作品包括《无因的叛逆》、《万王之王》等。本片真实地纪录了他生命最后岁月里的一些琐事，包括他本来要计划拍摄的绝唱，是关于一个画家远赴中国寻求医治良方的构思，但遗憾的是在纪录片还未发行前因癌症去世。本片忠实地描述了他对于死亡将临的感受。

"My next short was Silver City – it, too, had an English title and consisted of eight shots. Each shot was as long as a 30-metre roll, so it in fact lasted a little more than three minutes. And all of the shots were long shots, extreme long shots. And they were all done from the third, fourth, or fifth floor of the apartments where I lived at the time. (I used to change apartments rather frequently.) And they all showed streets or crossings, first very early in morning, at three or half past three when they were completely empty, and the lights were turning from green to red to green again, when there were no cars or anything crossing the streets, and with that morning light where everything is blue. And I used to shoot them even without cutting the ends off the 30-metre rolls – at the end, the image would be turning yellow or red or quite simply white. I didn’t cut anything away."
"The second half consisted of shots in the evening, sometimes of the same places, the same streets, but with heavy evening traffic going out of the city. The film again used Mood Music, other pieces this time – each 20 seconds long and each repeated three times. The film was extremely contemplative. It was really like standing at a window and looking down on the streets, either completely empty or, on the contrary, completely stocked. Only in the very first shot was there anything like a hint of a story. The very first shot was of a railway line – just an empty landscape, very early in the morning, too, and after two minutes of a completely empty shot, someone crosses the rails from one side of the frame, and leave the frame on the other. Immediately after he has crossed the rails, the train appears: that is to say – the camera is very close to the rails and – bang – the train is in the shot, and he passes, and slowly disappears in the distance. You get the impression that maybe it’s the start of some kind of story, but nothing happens until the end. Just the empty streets, and the views out of the windows."
" I’m not sure why I called it Silver City. I still think it expresses the mood of the film very well – just the sound of the two words. Maybe it’s the alliteration that makes it. I don’t know."

2003年文德斯参加了马丁斯科塞斯Martin Scorsese发起的为蓝调音乐寻根的Mini影集《The Blues》，拍摄了其中名为《一个人的灵魂》（The Soul of a Man）的一集。（参与这个影集的还有克林特 伊斯特伍德（《杀无赦》）和迈克 菲吉斯（Mike Figgis，《远离赌城》）等人）

Martin Scorsese本人导的单元Feel Like Going Home结构松散，缺乏重心（从美国跳到西非，又只挑一两个乐手作重点，蜻蜓点水般轻轻略过），一看就知道是个音乐外行人，也难怪有些乐迷要失望不已，倒是德国大导演文德斯（巴黎德州，柏林苍穹下，直到世界末日），不愧是个道地的音乐喜好者，他所导演的The Soul of a Man，具有下列三大特色：

1. 文德斯选择了自己最喜爱的三位布鲁斯艺术家斯基普·詹姆斯、布兰德·威利·约翰逊和J.B.雷诺瓦做为影片的主角，他带着虔诚与朝圣的心理，用剧情片的模式讲述了这三位音乐家的真实故事。
1). Willie Johnson（应该是纪录片）
2). Skip James（以戏剧方式重现其一生）
3). J. B. Renoir（影片来源：主要参照一对夫妇的私藏纪录片，并穿插了部分德国六零年代的摇滚场景，与导演个人的生活记忆。）

2. 刻意用二零年代的老摄影机，透过重现场景，重新演戏（re-enactment）的方式，将影像与音乐作一个巧妙的连结，其效果不亚于任何一部优秀的MTV。

3. 文德斯参考了大量的历史资料，请来与这三位音乐家同时代的或者具有影响力的像Lou Reed、克里斯·托马斯·金、尼克·凯夫Nick Cave 、the Bad Seeds、詹姆斯·布拉德·乌尔姆JamesBlood Ulmer、Lucinda Williams等近二十七位美国布鲁斯音乐人，请他们重新演唱这三位音乐家的经典布鲁斯歌曲，再穿插以当年历史新闻镜头，让观众在黑白影像中重新领略到布鲁斯音乐的魅力，体味到文德斯对音乐乃至人生的理解与感悟

这部片子前后的贯穿力强（以美国NASA宇宙飞船在船上放蓝调唱片藉以和外星人沟通为开场白，片末则出现了太空与Willie Johnson脸庞的迭影，颇有深意），凝聚性也高，充分显现温德斯对于音乐的投入，对于音乐--影像之间的对话与相扣，有非常好的掌握能力，值得推荐给大家看。

此片可以看作是文德斯《事物的状态》的续集。前集中的导演弗里德里希（帕特里克·波查 Patrick Bauchau 饰）在本片中去里斯本拍摄素材，他邀请电影收音师菲利普（鲁迪格·福格勒 Rüdiger Vogler 饰）帮自己的默片收集声音。菲利浦接到邀请明信片之后，依约赶往里斯本，却找不到弗里德里希的踪迹，只发现他留下的一些神秘线索。根据导演留下的一段关于里斯本某个小镇的菲林，菲利普前去该地方收集声音。他穿越在大街小巷，记录下各种声音。在里斯本游荡期间，他结识一位电影插曲演唱女歌手，生活自此增添了些许情调。影片最后，他找到了弗里德里希，了解到导演离走的原因：面对商业影像的冲击，导演已经对影像感到麻木，无法再找到拍摄的灵感与激情，于是发明了一种盲拍手法，将摄影机架在肩上，自己随意走动，任凭镜头记录所到之处的影像，他认为这种记录才是忠实地记录一个地方，是客观和真实的。

在一场艺术品拍卖会上，汤姆（丹尼斯·霍珀 Dennis Hopper 饰）遇见了名为乔纳森（布鲁诺·甘茨 Bruno Ganz 饰）的男人。乔纳森患有血液方面的疾病，这对于他那并不富裕的家庭来说无异于雪上加霜。黑手党找到了汤姆希望他能够帮他们完成一项暗杀任务，不愿意铤而走险的汤姆想到了乔纳森。
汤姆向乔纳森保证，如果后者能够代替他完成任务，那么汤姆的家庭将会得到一大笔的报酬，与此同时，汤姆贿赂了乔纳森的主治医师，两人合伙蒙骗了乔纳森，让他以为自己的病情发生了急速恶化。就这样，心中充满了痛苦和绝望的乔纳森走上了一条不归路，而看着乔纳森苦苦挣扎的模样，汤姆的心中竟然也产生了一种说不清道不明的情绪。

1999 年，一名妇女在一场与两名银行劫匪相撞的车祸中幸存下来后，她的生活发生了永远的改变，两名劫匪请求她帮助将钱带到巴黎的一个银行。途中，她遇到了另一名逃犯——一名从中央情报局逃亡的美国医生。他们想要没收他父亲的发明——一种可以让任何人记录自己的梦想和愿景的装置。

电影放映机修理员布鲁诺（鲁迪格·福格勒 Rüdiger Vogler 饰）开着大卡车在德国乡间四处漫游，为乡间放映厅打些零工，期待着能找到一份工作，并能遇见生命中的女人。儿童语言学研究专家罗伯特（汉斯·齐施勒 Hanns Zischler 饰）与妻子分手后，开着车独自奔驰在路上，途中车子被驶入河中，他似乎在企图自杀。路过的布鲁诺正巧遇见，帮助他脱离困境。之后，罗伯特心有默契地搭着布雷诺的卡车行驶在德国乡间，一同为电影院放映电影。他们共同见证了美国文化对德国电影业的侵袭而致使德国电影的衰败，一同体会着沿途的孤寂与疏离。正当他们的友情更加亲近时，早已习惯孤独的两人又不得不面对着背道而驰的分离。