Tom Farrell

Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realise his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.

Documentary about director/artist Nicholas Ray and his time as a university professor.

Director Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause) plays himself in this experimental docu-drama made in collaboration with his students, who also play fictionalised versions of themselves.