Wim Wenders, the revered German director who has two major premieres at Cannes this year, has spoken of his “disappointment” at the dominance of mainstream remakes and “repetitive” film franchises. “It makes me nauseous,” said Wenders, now 77, who is best-known for dramas Paris, Texas (1984) and Wings of Desire (1987), as well as music documentary Buena Vista Social Club (1999). “I feel all the imagination has now gone only into ‘How do I vary it?’, and not ‘How do I come up with something new?’ For me, this is not storytelling. Doing a remake is not storytelling. It is...