SAT JAN 20, 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. This event is near being sold out, but more could be available as carts expire. Please check again in a few minutes.
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