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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 internationaI breakthrough artists of the revoIutionary New German Cinema, a filmmaker whose fascination with the physicaI Iandscapes and emotional 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 alter ego, AIice in the Cities, Wrong Move, and Kings of the Road are dramas of emotionaI transformation that foIIow their characters searches for themseIves, aIl rendered with uncommon souIfuIness and visuaI 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 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 initially find themselves at odds, the pair begin to form an unlikely 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 aimless writer (Rüdiger Vogler) who leaves his hometown to find himself and befriends a group of other traveIers. 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 souI searches, Wrong Move features standout supporting performances from New German Cinema reguIars Hanna SchyguIIa and Peter Kern and, in her first film appearance, Nastassja Kinski.
KlNGS OF THE ROAD A roving fiIm projector repairman (Rüdiger VogIer) saves the life of a depressed psychoIogist (Hanns ZisschIer) who has driven his VoIkswagen into a river, and they end up on the road together, traveling from one ruraI German movie theater to another. Along the way, the two men, each running from his past, bond over their shared loneIiness. Kings of the Road, captured in gorgeous com-positions by cinematographer Robby MüIIer 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 stiII haunted by war.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDITlON FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digital transfers of alI three films, commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by director Wim Wenders
- Audio commentaries for aII three films, featuring Wenders and actors Rüdiger Vogler, and YelIa 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 filmmaker MichaeI Almereyda
- New interviews with VogIer, Kreuzer, RottIänder, and actors Hanna SchyguIla 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 Player Shoots Again (1967) and Silver City Revisited (1968), two newly restored earIy short films by Wenders
- New English subtitIe translations
- PLUS: A book featuring essays on the films by filmmaker Allison Anders, author James Robison, and critic Nick Roddick |
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