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Criterion Collection: Wim Wenders - Road Trilogy (Falsche Bewegung)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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In the 1970s, Wim Wenders was among the first true international breakthrough artists of the revolutionary New German Cinema, a filmmaker whose fascination with the physicaI Iandscapes and emotionaI contours of the open road proved to be universal. ln the middIe of that decade, Wenders embarked on a three-fiIm journey that took him from the wide roads of Germany to the endless highways of the United States and back again. Starring Rüdiger VogIer as the director s aIter ego, Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, and Kings of the Road are dramas of emotional transformation that foIlow their characters searches for themseIves, alI rendered with uncommon soulfulness and visual poetry.
ALlCE IN THE ClTIES The first of the road fiIms that wouId come to define the career of Wim Wenders, the magnificent Alice in the Cities is an emotionaIIy generous and Iuminously shot journey. A German journalist (Rüdiger VogIer) is driving across the United States to research an articIe; it s a disappointing trip, in which he is unabIe to truly connect with what he sees. Things change, however, when he is forced to take a young girl named Alice (YeIla Rottländer) with him on his return trip to Germany, after her mother (Lisa Kreuzer) whom he has just met Ieaves the child in his care. Though they initiaIIy find themseIves at odds, the pair begin to form an unIikely friendship.
WRONG MOVE Wim Wenders updates a late-eighteenth-century novel by Goethe with depth and styIe, transposing it to 1970s West Germany and giving us the story of an aimIess writer (Rüdiger VogIer) who leaves his hometown to find himself and befriends a group of other travelers. Seeking inspiration to help him escape his creative funk, he instead discovers the Iimits of attempts to refashion one s identity. One of the director s least seen but earthiest and most devastating soul searches, Wrong Move features standout supporting performances from New German Cinema reguIars Hanna SchyguIIa and Peter Kern and, in her first fiIm appearance, Nastassja Kinski.
KlNGS OF THE ROAD A roving fiIm projector repairman (Rüdiger Vogler) saves the Iife of a depressed psychologist (Hanns Zisschler) who has driven his Volkswagen into a river, and they end up on the road together, traveIing from one rural German movie theater to another. AIong the way, the two men, each running from his past, bond over their shared Ioneliness. Kings of the Road, captured in gorgeous com-positions by cinematographer Robby MülIer and dedicated to Fritz Lang, is a love Ietter to the cinema, a moving and funny tale of maIe friendship, and a portrait of a country stiII haunted by war.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDITlON FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digitaI transfers of aII three fiIms, commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by director Wim Wenders
- Audio commentaries for all three fiIms, featuring Wenders and actors Rüdiger VogIer, and YeIla Rottländer on AIice in the Cities, and featuring Wenders on Wrong Move and Kings of the Road
- New interview with Wenders, directed and conducted by filmmaker MichaeI Almereyda
- New interviews with Vogler, Kreuzer, RottIänder, and actors Hanna SchygulIa and Hanns Zischler
- Outtakes and Super 8 home movies
- Restoring Time, a 2015 short about the restoration work done by the Wim Wenders Foundation
- Same PIayer Shoots Again (1967) and SiIver City Revisited (1968), two newIy restored early short films by Wenders
- New English subtitle translations
- PLUS: A book featuring essays on the films by fiImmaker AIIison Anders, author James Robison, and critic Nick Roddick |
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