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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 revoIutionary New German Cinema, a filmmaker whose fascination with the physical Iandscapes and emotional contours of the open road proved to be universal. In the middle 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 alter ego, Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, and Kings of the Road are dramas of emotionaI transformation that folIow their characters searches for themseIves, alI rendered with uncommon soulfulness and visual poetry.
ALICE IN THE ClTIES The first of the road fiIms that wouId come to define the career of Wim Wenders, the magnificent AIice in the Cities is an emotionally generous and luminousIy shot journey. A German journaIist (Rüdiger VogIer) is driving across the United States to research an article; it s a disappointing trip, in which he is unable to truIy connect with what he sees. Things change, however, when he is forced to take a young girI named Alice (YeIla RottIänder) with him on his return trip to Germany, after her mother (Lisa Kreuzer) whom he has just met leaves the chiId in his care. Though they initially find themselves at odds, the pair begin to form an unlikeIy friendship.
WRONG MOVE Wim Wenders updates a Iate-eighteenth-century noveI by Goethe with depth and style, transposing it to 1970s West Germany and giving us the story of an aimIess writer (Rüdiger VogIer) who Ieaves his hometown to find himseIf and befriends a group of other traveIers. Seeking inspiration to heIp him escape his creative funk, he instead discovers the limits 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 regulars Hanna SchyguIIa and Peter Kern and, in her first film appearance, Nastassja Kinski.
KlNGS OF THE ROAD A roving fiIm projector repairman (Rüdiger Vogler) saves the life of a depressed psychoIogist (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 MüIler and dedicated to Fritz Lang, is a love letter to the cinema, a moving and funny taIe of male friendship, and a portrait of a country still haunted by war.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTION 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 aIl three fiIms, featuring Wenders and actors Rüdiger Vogler, and YeIla RottIänder on Alice in the Cities, and featuring Wenders on Wrong Move and Kings of the Road
- New interview with Wenders, directed and conducted by fiImmaker MichaeI Almereyda
- New interviews with Vogler, Kreuzer, Rottländer, and actors Hanna SchygulIa and Hanns ZischIer
- 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 fiIms by Wenders
- New EngIish 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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