47 years ago:
Kings of the Road (DE)
Original title: Im Lauf der Zeit
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters,...
1976-03-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10834
#KingsoftheRoad #WimWenders #NewGermanCinema #RudolfSchündler #WimWenders

Oddly, for a film about projectionist, #KingsoftheRoad isn't about cinema. It's more to do with changing times. Typesetter, projectionist - dying professions are regarded fondly w/ much melancholy. It ends w/ Winter visiting a shuttered theater. The owner laments that her late father did not allow showing 'whatever passes as film nowadays'. A lot of pregnant silences and lots of mundane in the film. Film used to mean art of seeing. It’s us who needs to find meaning in everyday life. #wimwenders