Container of (work): Alice in den Städten. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91082663 Container of (work): Falsche Bewegung (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87882803 Container of (work): Im Lauf der Zeit (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015059778 Same player shots again. Silver City revisited. Restoring time.
Notes:
Alice in the Cities: Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Elisabeth Kreuzer, Edda Köchl, Ernest Boehm. Wrong Move: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech, Ivan Desny, Marianne Hoppe. Kings of the Road: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler, Marquard Bohm. Wrong Move based on Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship". Alice in the Cities and Kings of the Road both shot in black & white; Wrong Move shot in color. Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by director Wim Wenders; Audio commentary featuring Wenders; German-language audio commentary featuring Wenders; New interviews with Wenders, directed and conducted by filmmaker Michael Almereyda; New interviews with actors Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, and Lisa Kreuzer; Outtakes and Super 8 footage; Restoring time, a 2015 short about the restoration work done by the Wim Wenders Foundation; Same player shots again (1967) and Silver City revisited (1968), two newly restored early short films by Wenders; New English subtitle translation by Wenders. Includes a book featuring essays on the films by Almereyda, filmmaker Allison Anders, author James Robinson, and critic Nick Roddick.
Contents:
(1976 ; 176 minutes). Kings of the Road / production Wim Wenders Produktion ; written, produced and directed by Wim Wenders (1974 ; 113 minutes) -- [Disc 2]. Wrong Move / production, Wim Wenders Produktion, WDR, and Solaris Film ; a film by Wim Wenders ; produced by Peter Genée and Wim Wenders ; screenplay by Peter Handke ; directed by Wim Wenders (1975 ; 104 minutes) -- [Disc 3]. Kings of the Road / production Wim Wenders Produktion ; written, produced and directed by Wim Wenders (1976 ; 176 minutes).
Summary:
"In the 1970s, Wim Wenders was among the first true international breakthrough artists of the revolutionary New German Cinema movement, a filmmaker whose fascination with the physical landscapes and emotional contours of the open road proved to be universal. In the middle of that decade, Wenders embarked on a three-film journey that took him from the wide roads of Germany to the endless highways of the United States and back again. Each starring Rüdiger Vogler as the director's alter ego, Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, and Kings of the Road are dramas of emotional transformation that follow their characters' searches for themselves, all rendered with uncommon soulfulness and visual poetry."--Box. Alice in the Cities: A German journalist is driving across the United States to research an article; it's disappointing trip, during which he is unable to truly connect with what he sees. Things change, however, when he has no choice but to take a young girl named Alice with him on his return trip to Germany, after her mother- whom he just met- leaves the child in his care. Wrong Move: The story of an aimless writer who leaves his hometown to find himself and winds up befriending a group of other travelers. Seeking inspiration to help him escape his creative funk, he instead discovers the limits of attempts to refashion one's identity. Kings of the Road: A roving film projector repairman saves the life of depressed psychologist who has driven his Volkswagen into a river, and they end up on the road together, traveling from one rural German movie to another. Along the way, the two men, each running from his past, bond over their shared loneliness.
Series:
Box set: Criterion collection ; 813 Alice in the Cities: Criterion collection ; 814 Wrong Move: Criterion collection ; 815 Kings of the Road: Criterion collection ; 816
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