• new, Restored High-definition Digital Transfer, Supervised And Approved By Director Wim Wenders
• audio Commentary Featuring Wenders And Actor Peter Falk
• the Angels Among Us (2003), A Documentary Featuring Interviews With Wenders, Falk, Actors Bruno Ganz And Otto Sander, Writer Peter Handke, And Composer Jürgen Knieper
• excerpt From: Wim Wenders Berlin Jan. 87, An Episode Of The French Television Program Cinéma Cinémas, Including On-set Footage
• interview With Director Of Photography Henri Alekan
• deleted Scenes And Outtakes
• excerpts From The Films Alekan La Lumière (1985) And Remembrance: Film For Curt Bois (about The Actor Who Plays Homer In Wings Of Desire)
• notes And Photos By Production Designer Heidi Lüdi And Art Director Toni Lüdi
• trailers
• new And Improved English Subtitle Translation
• plus: A Booklet Featuring An Essay By Critic Michael Atkinson And Writings By Wenders And Handke

Wim Wenders's most purely romantic film is like poetry on celluloid, a celebration of the transient and fragile moments of being human: the warmth of a cup of coffee on a cold day, the embrace of a friend, the touch of a lover, the rapture of love. Opening with an angel's-eye view of Berlin in silvery black and white (delicately captured by the great cinematographer Henri Alekan, who photographed Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast 40 years earlier), it transforms into a gauzy color world when Damiel "crosses over" by sheer will. Peter Falk plays himself as a fallen angel with a special sensitivity for celestial visitors ("I can't see you, but I know you're there," he proclaims), and Otto Sander, whose smiling eyes brighten a face etched by eons of waiting and watching, is Damiel's partner. Wenders made a sequel in 1993, Faraway, So Close, and Hollywood remade the film as City of Angels with Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan. --Sean Axmaker