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• The American Friend | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £11.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Today a cult film The American Friend is based on the novel Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith and won the German Critics Prize in 1977. Frame maker Jonathan (Bruno Ganz) believes he is dying from a blood disease and his American friend displaced cowboy Ripley (Dennis Hopper) decides to use his illness to his advantage. Ripley introduces him to a gangster who proposes to the dying man that he should become a professional mob assassin assuring a large legacy for his wife and children. Since he is facing death anyway what has he to lose? Ripley had originally intended to allow Jonathan to do the dirty work that he didn't feel like doing but has second thoughts when he becomes friends with the doomed man.

• The American Friend | Blu Ray | (22/08/2022) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's Ripley's Game is dominated by the electric interplay of Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper. Ganz plays Jonathan Zimmermann, a picture framer with a terminal medical condition. Through a series of encounters and machinations, he accepts money to kill a criminal in order to support his family after his death. He is aided by Tom Ripley (Hopper), an art forger. Unbeknown to Jonathan, Ripley is behind all the plans. However, the criminal and borderline sociopath's feelings towards Jonathan eventually change and he feels a responsibility to take care of his new friend. Wenders' neo-noir is a far cry from the previous adaptation of a novel featuring Highsmith's most famous character. René Clément's Plein Soleil, a 1960 adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley was all sun and glamour. (As was Anthony Minghella's 1999 version.) Wenders' take on the third novel in the Ripley series which also used an element of the plot from the second, Ripley Under Ground is grittier. And in Dennis Hopper, Ripley is a far more unsettling figure. The actor allegedly arrived on set high as a kite and was not the easiest person to work with. But his performance exudes a menace that Hopper would later develop into the terrifying presence that is Frank, the psychopath who dominates David Lynch's Blue Velvet. Ganz, by contrast, plays Jonathan with a subtlety that makes his transformation as the story progresses all the more unsettling. Their odd-couple relationship is the lynchpin of the film, one of the few adaptations of her work that Highsmith admired.

• Alice In The Cities | Blu Ray | (22/08/2022) from £12.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A photographer finds himself saddled with a young girl whom he must return home, in Wim Wenders' international breakthrough. Philip Winter (Wenders regular Rüdiger Vogler) is at a New York airport when he encounters a young mother. Before he knows it, he is stuck with the woman's nine-year-old daughter (Yella Rottländer), with no information regarding where in Germany she lives. Arriving home, the photographer and his young charge make their way around the country in an attempt to return her to her family. Philip and Alice's bond grows stronger as he documents the way the German landscape has changed, emerging from the decades-long impact of the Second World War. The first entry in Wenders' loose road trilogy it was followed by _Wrong Movement_ and _Kings of the Road_ is one of his most charming films. Vogler is at his charismatic best, and Rottländer proved herself to be a strong screen presence. A stunning European road movie a genre that for so long was dominated by US film production Wenders' drama is as spirited as it is evocative.

• Kings of the Road (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/09/2018) from £9.91   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  German drama written and directed by Wim Wenders. The film follows Bruno Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) as he travels around the country fixing projection equipment. One day on the road, he meets Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler) who, suffering from depression after splitting up with his wife, tries to kill himself by driving his car into the River Elbe. Bruno invites him into his car to dry off in some clean clothes and, after Robert accepts his kind invitation, the pair set off along the West German border as Bruno travels from one old cinema to the next, discussing their lives, thoughts and hopes as they go.

• Kings of The Road | Blu Ray | (22/08/2022) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An unsettling encounter between two strangers opens this epic road movie, one of cinema's most fascinating portraits of male friendship. A car races along a road, ending up in a shallow pond. Its distraught driver emerges, soaking wet. Robert (Hanns Zischler) is picked up by cinema projection engineer Bruno (Rüdiger Vogler). They initially travel together in order for Robert's clothes to dry out, but an unspoken bond is formed between the two and some friendly help transforms into something deeper. Wenders' film works on various levels. It is a visually striking portrait of Germany both its countryside, and the towns and cities the two men travel through. It is a rumination on the state of cinema, of a transformation from a classic era through to a modern, more divisive style. And it is a study of purely platonic friendship between two men. The ease Bruno and Robert quickly feel in each other's company is a rare sight in cinema. But Wenders asks of this relationship, like so many other elements in his film, how long can such a situation last before progress forces it to move forward or come to an end? With its unhurried pace yet moving swiftly through the three-hour running time Kings of the Road is now regarded as one of the essential European films of the 1970s and a one of the great German films of the last 50 years. It is also a key film in Wim Wenders' accomplished body of work.

• Radio On | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following a young London DJ (David Beames) on the road to Bristol to investigate the mysterious death of his brother Radio On offers a unigue compelling and even mythic vision of a late 1970s England stalled between failed hopes of cultural and social change and the imminent upheavals of Thatcherism. Stunningly photographed by luminous monochrome by Martin Schafer and driven by a startling new wave soundtrack (Bowie Kraftwerk Lene Lovich Ian Drury Wreckless Eric) - and an early screen performance by Sting - Radio On is ripe for rediscovery.

• The American Friend (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (22/10/2018) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In THE AMERICAN FRIEND, Wim Wenders transforms Patricia Highsmith s Ripley s Game into a gripping European noir. Professional frame maker Jonathan (Bruno Ganz) has been diagnosed with a terminal blood disease. A chance encounter with the enigmatic Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper) offers him a way to ensure a stable future for his family. But as Jonathan embarks on his new and dangerous role, Tom questions his motives for involving his new friend. Superbly shot by Robbie Müller, Wim Wenders draws on his love of American cinema, paying homage to the B-movie and film noir traditions and casting fellow directors Dennis Hopper, Sam Fuller, Nicholas Ray, Ge rard Blain, Peter Lilienthal, Daniel Schmid and Jean Eustache. The result is one of his finest films. OFFICIAL SELECTION IN COMPETITION Cannes Film Festival 1977 SPECIAL FEATURES: NEW RESTORED 4K DIGITAL TRANSFER commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by director Wim Wenders; Introduction by Wim Wenders; Restoring Time documentary; Exclusive limited edition booklet

• Alice in the Cities Dual format (DVD & Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (11/12/2017) from £13.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NEW RESTORED 4K DIGITAL TRANSFER commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by director Wim Wenders. One of the key films of the New German Cinema, ALICE IN THE CITIES marked the emergence of Wim Wenders as one of the most distinctive European filmmakers of the 1970s. The first in Wenders Road Movie Trilogy (followed by WRONG MOVE and KINGS OF THE ROAD) it is also widely accepted to be one of the director s most poignant films. Philip Winter, a journalist with writers block, becomes the guardian of eight year-old Alice (Yella Rottlander) when her mother leaves the girl with him briefly at an American airport, only never to return. Back in Germany, an unlikely friendship develops between the two as they embark on a journey to find Alice s grandmother. Through Rüdiger Vogler s portrayal of the embittered Winter, Wenders presents a stark but witty account of the changing face of Europe, the onset of global consumerism and the influences of American pop culture. Special Features: NEW RESTORED 4K DIGITAL TRANSFER commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by director Wim Wenders Interview with Wim Wenders by filmmaker and critic Mark Cousins Conversations with actors Ru diger Vogler and Yella Rottla nder and Wim Wenders Deleted Scenes Documentary Restoring Time on the restoration of Wenders work Exclusive limited-edition booklet New English subtitle translation approved by Wim Wenders

• Kings of the Road | Blu Ray | (26/03/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  New, restored 4K digital transfer, commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by director Wim Wenders; New introduction to Kings of the Road by Wim Wenders; Conversations on Kings of the Road featurette; Deleted Scenes; Documentary Restoring Time ; Exclusive limited edition booklet; New English subtitles translation approved by Wim Wenders

• The American Friend | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A thriller that's nearly devoid of thrills? That's not a complaint--it's what makes The American Friend one of the most stylish (and at the time most expensive) films to emerge from the new German cinema of the 1970s. Loosely adapting Patricia Highsmith's mystery novel Ripley's Game, director Wim Wenders shifted priority from plotting to character, emphasising a richly colourful and atmospheric approach to locations in Hamburg, where a picture-framer (Bruno Ganz) is lured into an assassination scheme involving a mysterious Frenchman (Gerard Blain) and the titular American friend, Tom Ripley (played by Dennis Hopper, a far cry from either Matt Damon's portrayal of the same character in The Talented Mr Ripley or John Malkovich's in the 2003 version of Ripley's Game). The plotting is vague to the point of irrelevance; Wenders prefers to maintain the aura of mystery rather than generating any conventional suspense and expresses his affection for American movies by casting favourite directors Nicholas Ray and Samuel Fuller in pivotal supporting roles. The result is an intoxicating example of cinematic cross-pollination. --Jeff Shannon

• Wim Wenders - Story Of His Early Years | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Drawing parallels between his early films and his personal biography this documentary traces Wim Wenders' own history focussing on the director's life prior to his leaving Germany for the USA after his international breakthrough with The American Friend (1976/77). In intimate conversations Wim Wenders talks about his sheltered upbringing in post-war Germany. The film follows him on a journey into the past that takes him to Paris where he lived as a young painter and made his decision to become a filmmaker. He recounts his experiences successes and failures as a film student on the way to becoming a director. He also conveys the attitudes and the euphoric mood among the first intake of students at Munich's newly founded film school. Apart from Wenders himself some of his most important fellow-travellers also have their say including Peter Handke Robby M''ller R''diger Vogler Bruno Ganz and Lisa Kreuzer. As they remember they discuss some of the fundamental recurring themes of Wenders' films such as the search for identity friendship and communication.

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