The American Friend (1977)
Part of the New German Cinema: Wim Wenders
| Director: | Wim Wenders |
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| Certificate: | BBFC 15 |
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| Format: | 35mm |
| Language: | German, English, French |
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Frame maker Jonathan (Bruno Ganz) believes he is dying. Knowing this Jonathan's American friend, displaced cowboy Ripley (Dennis Hopper) introduces him to a gangster who asks him to become a mob assassin. Ripley intends Jonathan to do his dirty work, but has second thoughts when he becomes friends with the doomed man.
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'Superb adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game, with Hopper as her amiably cynical hero, asked to find a non-professional for a killing or two, and - in echo of Strangers on a Train - drawing an innocent family man into the game by persuading him that the blood disease he is suffering from is not merely incurable but terminal. '
- Time Out London
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06hIZ76Zlds
The season poster, design by David Knaggs: http://artopolus.net/wim/wenders.jpg
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Film: The State Of Things (1982)
15 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
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18
Film: Nick's Film - Lightning Over Water (1980)
18 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
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Film: Film: Land Of Plenty (2004)
22 Jan 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Lana returns to the USA after years of living abroad with her missionary father. She wants to find her only other living relative - uncle Paul, a Vietnam veteran with deep emotional war wounds. A tragic event witnessed by the two takes them on a journey of healing, discovery, and kinship.