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Jun 8, 2017 · The American Friend (1977)Tribute/Fan/Updated/Modernized Trailer Edit by Dan McBridePart of my trailer project - breathing some new life into older, forgotte...
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The American Friend. Directed by Wim Wenders • 1977 • Germany. Starring Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz. 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 ...
Jan 22, 2016 · Criterion’s 1080p transfer of the recent 4k digital restoration of The American Friend handily trumps the now-ancient Anchor Bay DVD from 2003. The celluloid texture of the film is of immediate note, as is the more accurate color palette, softer yet richer in translating Robby Müller’s neon-lit interiors. For their part, the outdoor ...
Jan 20, 2024 · 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 ...
In Wim Wenders. Der amerikanische Freund (1977; The American Friend ), based on Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game, explores the concept of dislocation, or separation. For this film, Wenders cast his longtime idol, film director Nicholas Ray, and the two later collaborated on the documentary Lightning over Water (1980), about the last days ...
The American Friend (Der amerikanische Freund) is a 1977 film from West Germany directed by Wim Wenders. It is an adaptation of Ripley's Game, the third of five novels in the "Ripliad" by Patricia Highsmith, all featuring as a character the criminal mastermind Tom Ripley. Despite being a German production, the film is mostly in English.
Superb adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game, with Hopper as her amiably cynical hero, asked to find a non-professional for a killing or two, and - in echo of Strangers on a Train - drawing an innocent family man (Ganz) into the game by persuading him that the blood disease he is suffering from is not merely incurable but terminal.
