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 "excerpt": "Chambre 666 (Room 666) is Wim Wenders' 1982 documentary made in room 666 of Cannes' Hotel Martinez, where 16 directors including Godard, Herzog, Spielberg, and Antonioni answered whether cinema was an art about to die.",
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 "markdown": "# Chambre 666\n\n**Chambre 666** (English title *Room 666*) is a 1982 documentary by the German director [Wim Wenders](https://www.edgepedia.org/wim-wenders) in which he asked fellow filmmakers, one at a time, to answer a single question alone in room 666 of the Hotel Martinez during the Cannes Film Festival: \"Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?\"<sup>[1](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/chambre-666/)</sup> The participants included [Jean-Luc Godard](https://www.edgepedia.org/jean-luc-godard), Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Steven Spielberg, Michelangelo Antonioni, and [Werner Herzog](https://www.edgepedia.org/werner-herzog).<sup>[1](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/chambre-666/)</sup>\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Director and writer | Wim Wenders<sup>[1](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/chambre-666/)</sup> |\n| Setting | Room 666, Hotel Martinez, Cannes, during the 1982 festival<sup>[1](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/chambre-666/)</sup> |\n| Central question | \"Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?\"<sup>[2](https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/room-666-2/)</sup> |\n| Participants | 16 directors were asked; Hanway Films states that fifteen responded on camera<sup>[3](https://mk2films.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/02/room-999-dp.pdf)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[4](https://www.hanwayfilms.com/room-666)</sup> |\n| Format | 16mm Eastmancolor, 1:1.33; West Germany/USA production<sup>[2](https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/room-666-2/)</sup> |\n| Runtime | Reported as 45, 47, or 50 minutes depending on the source<sup>[5](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/room_666_1985)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[6](https://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_fiche_film/13601_3)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/room-666-2/)</sup> |\n| Restoration | 2K restoration in 2023, premiered at the Festival Lumière in Lyon<sup>[2](https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/room-666-2/)</sup> |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nCannes, May 1982, the 35th festival. A director walks into room 666 at the Hôtel Martinez, alone, with no interviewer, no audience, no one behind the camera. The rules Wenders set are simple and strange: each director flicks a switch to start the film camera and tape recorder themselves, talks to the machines about the future of cinema and television, and switches off when they are done.<sup>[13](https://asapconnect.in/post/841/singlestories/chambre-666)</sup> The room holds one chair at a small table, a window and balcony behind, and a television left playing silently over the sitter's left shoulder, their so-called enemy kept in the frame on purpose.<sup>[14](https://thecriticaleye.me/2014/04/18/chambre-666/)</sup> The result is less a debate than a series of portraits, and as Time Out observed, how the luminaries behave alone in a room is often more interesting than what they say: Godard radiates cosmic disgruntlement, Spielberg is friendly, precise, and comparatively optimistic, Herzog takes off his shoes, Antonioni is the most restless, and Filipino director Mike de Leon is admirably brisk.<sup>[9](https://www.timeout.com/movies/chambre-666-cannes-may-82)</sup>\n\n**Fassbinder's segment is the one the film can never shake off.** R. W. Fassbinder sits down, answers in barely forty-five seconds, and boils the whole questionnaire down to a single sentence: \"Le cinéma complètement individuel fait par des individus isolés est plus important que ce cinéma qui ne se distingue plus de la télévision\", cinema made completely by isolated individuals matters more than a cinema that no longer distinguishes itself from television. He waves to the camera and leaves.<sup>[15](https://www.senscritique.com/film/chambre_666/critique/4175382)</sup> A few weeks later he was dead, apparently before the film had even been edited, and Wenders honors him with a cut back to the cedar and a long, focused shot of his face.<sup>[16](https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/flm/arc/fdb.cfm?filmdbId=1808120834450100001)</sup> A forty-five-second answer from a man who would not live to see the film finished becomes its emotional center.\n\nGodard gets the longest stretch, thirteen of the forty-five minutes, and uses it to dismantle the question before answering it. He works through Wenders's questionnaire line by line, jokes that film people never wanted to deal with television so the postal workers who handled communications ended up with it, and then delivers the film's most politically explosive lines: \"Television is produced in the name of power,\" and \"Hollywood dreams of making just one single film that will then be shown the world over.\"<sup>[16](https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/flm/arc/fdb.cfm?filmdbId=1808120834450100001)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[15](https://www.senscritique.com/film/chambre_666/critique/4175382)</sup> Spielberg, by contrast, is the friendly face of the industry everyone else is worried about, precise and comparatively hopeful about where the movies are going.<sup>[9](https://www.timeout.com/movies/chambre-666-cannes-may-82)</sup>\n\nHerzog provides the best performance piece. He takes off his shoes and switches off the television, physically evicting the enemy from the room before speaking.<sup>[15](https://www.senscritique.com/film/chambre_666/critique/4175382)</sup> Then he turns optimist, one of the few in the film: television is just a jukebox, a machine you can switch on and off at will, whereas a cinema viewer is inside a theater and cannot switch it off. \"Cinema is wherever life penetrates us most directly,\" so it will survive.<sup>[16](https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/flm/arc/fdb.cfm?filmdbId=1808120834450100001)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[17](https://www.asapconnect.in/post/841/singlestories/chambre-666)</sup> [Michelangelo Antonioni](https://www.edgepedia.org/michelangelo-antonioni), nearly seventy, takes the technological long view: cinema must accept new technical developments, and \"videotape will replace film.\"<sup>[16](https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/flm/arc/fdb.cfm?filmdbId=1808120834450100001)</sup>\n\nOne participant never enters the room at all. Yilmaz Güney, who won the [Palme d'Or](https://www.edgepedia.org/palme-dor) that same year for Yol, was lying low in France because the Turkish government was demanding his extradition, so Wenders introduces a tape recording of him instead, speaking about the contradiction between art and capital and the difference between industrial cinema and artistic cinema.<sup>[16](https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/flm/arc/fdb.cfm?filmdbId=1808120834450100001)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[13](https://asapconnect.in/post/841/singlestories/chambre-666)</sup>\n\nThe film opens and closes on a roughly 150-year-old cedar tree at the entrance to Paris airport, framed against ominous atmospheric music.<sup>[16](https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/flm/arc/fdb.cfm?filmdbId=1808120834450100001)</sup> Wenders considered the image prophetic, and it returns a third time at the middle, a symbol of something old that keeps standing while everything around it is rebuilt.<sup>[13](https://asapconnect.in/post/841/singlestories/chambre-666)</sup> He had planned a ninety-minute compilation titled Gegenschuss (Reverse Shot) with additional interviews from [Chantal Akerman](https://www.edgepedia.org/chantal-akerman), Paulo Rocha, and Werner Schroeter, but it never materialized.<sup>[16](https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/flm/arc/fdb.cfm?filmdbId=1808120834450100001)</sup>\n\n### Characters\n\nBecause the film is a documentary, its characters are its talkers, each of them playing themselves:\n\n**Wim Wenders** is the off-screen interrogator and occasional on-screen host, who wrote the question, rented the room, and appears to introduce Güney's tape. He had come to Cannes presenting his own competition film, Hammett, and shot this on the side.<sup>[18](https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/chambre-666/)</sup>\n\n**Jean-Luc Godard** treats the questionnaire as raw material for a thirteen-minute seminar on power, television, and Hollywood's dream of one universal film.\n\n**Werner Herzog** performs the most theatrical entrance, shoes off, TV off, then delivers the film's most confident defense of cinema as the one place life reaches us directly.\n\n**R. W. Fassbinder** gives the shortest answer, one sentence on individual cinema versus television, waves, and leaves; his death weeks later turns the moment into a memorial.\n\n**Steven Spielberg** is the friendly, precise, comparatively optimistic outlier, the Hollywood insider among the doubters.\n\n**Michelangelo Antonioni**, the elder statesman at nearly seventy, is restless on camera but unalarmed in substance, betting on videotape and new technology.\n\n**Yilmaz Güney**, absent and in political exile, speaks only on tape about art versus capital.\n\n### Interpretations and controversies\n\nThere is no controversy, but there is a standing retrospective reading: contemporary essays note that history has answered Wenders's question. Photochemical film is indeed nearly dead, kept alive by a handful of holdouts, while cinema survived precisely through the constant technological change Antonioni predicted, a reading sharpened today by anxieties about AI.<sup>[17](https://www.asapconnect.in/post/841/singlestories/chambre-666)</sup> The film has also become a rarity in a grimmer sense: many of its participants, including Fassbinder, Antonioni, Mahroun Bagdadi, and Güney, have since died, making it a time capsule of a vanished generation.<sup>[16](https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/flm/arc/fdb.cfm?filmdbId=1808120834450100001)</sup>\n\n## Background\n\nWenders later described the mood that produced the film: \"There was a general gloom at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. The feeling that the end of cinema was inevitable was roaming everywhere. A 'black hole' was opening in film history so to say.\" He decided to conduct a survey among his colleagues about the future of cinema, and invited them to \"the only available room in the whole town,\" room 666 at the Hotel Martinez.<sup>[2](https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/room-666-2/)</sup>\n\nThe anxiety had concrete causes. In the early 1980s home entertainment began to compete with cinema-going and video rental shops spread rapidly; uncertainty was high and the subject was sharply debated at the 1982 festival.<sup>[7](https://mk2films.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/02/dp-chambre-999.pdf)</sup> Wenders worried that television aesthetics had overtaken cinematic aesthetics, that films were copying each other instead of drawing on life, that productions were drifting toward spectacles at the expense of small films, and that movies would become instantly available on video and watched at home rather than in theaters.<sup>[7](https://mk2films.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/02/dp-chambre-999.pdf)</sup>\n\n## Method\n\nThe setup was deliberately minimal. Wenders booked the last free room at the Hotel Martinez and left a single camera in it with the question written on the table. Each participant only had to switch on the tape recorder and the camera when ready to give a solitary answer.<sup>[2](https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/room-666-2/)</sup> According to the Austin Film Society's account, each director was given one 16mm reel of film in which to complete their remarks, using a sheet of questions written by Wenders.<sup>[8](https://www.austinfilm.org/2016/09/from-1982-godard-herzog-fassbinder-spielberg-talk-to-wim-wenders-camera-about-the-state-of-the-art/)</sup> A television, switched on but silent, stood in the frame throughout.<sup>[9](https://www.timeout.com/movies/chambre-666-cannes-may-82)</sup>\n\nThe constraint produced varied behavior as much as varied opinion. Time Out observed that what the directors said was often less interesting than how they behaved alone in the room: Godard fiddled with props and communicated \"cosmic disgruntlement,\" Spielberg was friendly, precise, and comparatively optimistic, Herzog took off his shoes and switched off the TV, Antonioni was the most restless, and the Filipino director Mike De Leon was brisk.<sup>[9](https://www.timeout.com/movies/chambre-666-cannes-may-82)</sup> One participant, the director Monte Hellman, described the process as \"a horrifying experience.\"<sup>[10](https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2026/cteq/chambre-666-cinemas-existential-crisis-at-cannes-82/)</sup> Wenders himself noted that some answered at length while others were unsettled by the situation and remained silent; those silent responses were cut from the film.<sup>[2](https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/room-666-2/)</sup>\n\n## Participants\n\nWim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema.<sup>[3](https://mk2films.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/02/room-999-dp.pdf)</sup> The full list of interviewees is:<sup>[8](https://www.austinfilm.org/2016/09/from-1982-godard-herzog-fassbinder-spielberg-talk-to-wim-wenders-camera-about-the-state-of-the-art/)</sup>\n\n- Jean-Luc Godard\n- Paul Morrissey\n- Mike De Leon\n- Monte Hellman\n- Romain Goupil\n- Susan Seidelman\n- Noël Simsolo\n- [Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://www.edgepedia.org/rainer-werner-fassbinder)\n- Werner Herzog\n- Robert Kramer\n- Ana Carolina\n- Maroun Bagdadi\n- [Steven Spielberg](https://www.edgepedia.org/steven-spielberg)\n- Michelangelo Antonioni\n- Wim Wenders\n- Yilmaz Güney\n\nOne answer never reached the camera. The Turkish director Yilmaz Güney, who was in hiding because the Turkish government had requested his extradition, recorded his response on a tape recorder.<sup>[11](https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/cpb8205391003/chambre-666-n-importe-quand)</sup>\n\n## Production and release\n\nThe film was commissioned by the French broadcaster Antenne 2 and produced through Gray City Inc. (New York) and Chris Sievernich Filmproduktion, with Agnès Godard as director of photography, Chantal de Vismes as editor, Jean-Paul Mugel as sound recordist, and music by Jürgen Knieper.<sup>[2](https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/room-666-2/)</sup> It premiered on Antenne 2 on 2 June 1982 and had its German premiere on 24 February 1985 in the Forum section of the [Berlin International Film Festival](https://www.edgepedia.org/berlin-international-film-festival); its first German television broadcast followed on 16 September 1990 on West 3.<sup>[2](https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/room-666-2/)</sup> Runtime figures differ across databases: 45 minutes on Rotten Tomatoes, 47 minutes on film-documentaire.fr, and 50 minutes on the Cannes festival and Wim Wenders Stiftung pages.<sup>[5](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/room_666_1985)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[6](https://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_fiche_film/13601_3)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[1](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/chambre-666/)</sup>\n\nFor the 2023 restoration, the 16mm camera negative was scanned in 4K using the wet-gate (scanning film while bathed in fluid to hide scratches) method, then retouched and color-corrected at 2K resolution; the analog 17.5mm magnetic audio track was digitized and cleaned of noise and static clicks. Work was carried out at L'Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, Basis Berlin Postproduktion, and Eurotape in Berlin, with support from Cineteca di Bologna and Steven Spielberg's Genoma Films.<sup>[12](https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/digitization/)</sup> The restored version premiered at the Festival Lumière in Lyon in 2023.<sup>[2](https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/room-666-2/)</sup>\n\n## Legacy\n\nForty years after the original, the director Lubna Playoust made *Chambre 999* (2023), a direct response that replicated Wenders' minimalist setup: 30 prominent directors at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival sat alone in a hotel room before a fixed camera and answered the same question. The participants included [David Cronenberg](https://www.edgepedia.org/david-cronenberg), Claire Denis, Baz Luhrmann, Asghar Farhadi, and [Lynne Ramsay](https://www.edgepedia.org/lynne-ramsay), as well as Wenders himself, who reflected on the \"deadly\" nature of the digital revolution. Where Wenders' subjects were framed by a television playing live broadcasts, Playoust's faced a screen displaying streaming services.<sup>[10](https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2026/cteq/chambre-666-cinemas-existential-crisis-at-cannes-82/)</sup> Playoust noted one practical change: in 1982 the 16mm reel limited each answer to a maximum of 12 minutes, a duration that had to be controlled differently in a digital shoot.<sup>[7](https://mk2films.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/02/dp-chambre-999.pdf)</sup>\n\nCritics have treated the film as a record of its moment. A 2025 review in Q Network Film Desk called it \"utterly essential\" as a time capsule, a window into the thinking of major international filmmakers during a period of technological, industrial, and ideological transition.<sup>[5](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/room_666_1985)</sup> The question itself has proved durable: Playoust observed that the idea of the death of cinema returns cyclically, tied to upheavals such as the COVID pandemic, ecological crisis, conflicts, and technological revolutions, and that neither Wenders' film nor her own gives a definitive answer.<sup>[7](https://mk2films.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/02/dp-chambre-999.pdf)</sup>\n\n## References\n\n1. [Chambre 666, Festival de Cannes film page](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/chambre-666/)\n2. [Room 666, Wim Wenders Stiftung](https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/room-666-2/)\n3. [Chambre 999 press kit, mk2 Films](https://mk2films.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/02/room-999-dp.pdf)\n4. [Room 666, Hanway Films](https://www.hanwayfilms.com/room-666)\n5. [Room 666, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/room_666_1985)\n6. [Chambre 666 n'importe quand..., film-documentaire.fr](https://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_fiche_film/13601_3)\n7. [Cannes Classics 2023: Chambre 999 press kit, mk2 Films](https://mk2films.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/02/dp-chambre-999.pdf)\n8. [From 1982: Godard, Herzog, Fassbinder, Spielberg Talk to Wim Wenders' Camera, Austin Film Society](https://www.austinfilm.org/2016/09/from-1982-godard-herzog-fassbinder-spielberg-talk-to-wim-wenders-camera-about-the-state-of-the-art/)\n9. [Chambre 666 Cannes May '82 review, Time Out](https://www.timeout.com/movies/chambre-666-cannes-may-82)\n10. [Chambre 666: Cinema's Existential Crisis at Cannes '82, Senses of Cinema](https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2026/cteq/chambre-666-cinemas-existential-crisis-at-cannes-82/)\n11. [Chambre 666 n'importe quand, INA](https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/cpb8205391003/chambre-666-n-importe-quand)\n12. [Digitization, Wim Wenders Stiftung](https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/digitization/)\n13. [https://asapconnect.in/post/841/singlestories/chambre-666](https://asapconnect.in/post/841/singlestories/chambre-666)\n14. [https://thecriticaleye.me/2014/04/18/chambre-666/](https://thecriticaleye.me/2014/04/18/chambre-666/)\n15. [https://www.senscritique.com/film/chambre_666/critique/4175382](https://www.senscritique.com/film/chambre_666/critique/4175382)\n16. [https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/flm/arc/fdb.cfm?filmdbId=1808120834450100001](https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/flm/arc/fdb.cfm?filmdbId=1808120834450100001)\n17. [https://www.asapconnect.in/post/841/singlestories/chambre-666](https://www.asapconnect.in/post/841/singlestories/chambre-666)\n18. 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