THU SEP 22, 2022 10:00 PM

Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer Present THE AMERICAN FRIEND

$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

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Los Feliz 3 | Screening curated by filmmakers Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer, with pre-recorded introduction by Davis and Holmer. 

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  • RELEASED IN: 1977
  • 126 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: WIM WENDERS

ABOUT THE FILM:

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