Until the End of the World is “the ultimate road movie,” a journey around the globe, a modern-day odyssey—and it certainly bears similarities to Homer’s saga. In order to enable his blind wife (Jeanne Moreau, Jules and Jim) to see, Dr. Farber (Max von Sydow, The Seventh Seal) invents a process that makes it possible to transmit the images recorded in the brains of sighted people directly into the visual systems of blind people. Farber’s son Sam (William Hurt, Altered States) sets out on a journey around the world in order to “see” and record the various stations of his mother’s life for her. The film was shot in 1990 and takes place in the near future, around the turn of the millennium. Forced to cut the film significantly by his distributors, Wenders created a director’s cut two years after its release: at a length of almost four hours, it lives up to his intentions and to the epic nature of the story. This truly is a rare screening opportunity, an absolute must not only for fans of Wim Wenders, but for fans of great, larger-than-life cinema.