TUE JAN 23, 2024 7:00 PM THE AMERICAN FRIEND $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | ‘Wim Wenders: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM: In French and German with English subtitles. Wim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with THE AMERICAN FRIEND, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel Ripley’s Game. Dennis Hopper oozes quirky menace as an amoral American art dealer who entangles a terminally ill German everyman, played by Bruno Ganz, in a seedy criminal underworld as revenge for a personal slight—but when the two become embroiled in an ever-deepening murder plot, they form an unlikely bond. Filmed on location in Hamburg and Paris, with some scenes shot in grimy, late-seventies New York City, Wenders’s international breakout is a stripped-down crime story that mixes West German and American film flavors, and it features cameos by filmmakers Jean Eustache, Samuel Fuller, and Nicholas Ray. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films COUNTRY: Germany, France