Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road
May 13–July 30 2016
A retrospective featuring recently restored films by Wim Wenders, "a must-see for cinephiles of all stripes” (Rodrigo Perez, Indiewire).
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The American Friend
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The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
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Alabama (2000 Light Years)
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The Left-Handed Woman
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Lightning Over Water
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Films
Kings of the Road
Wim Wenders
West Germany, 19764K Digital Restoration
Friday, May 13 7 PMView DetailsA projector repairman and a depressed young man begin a road trip across the East and West German borders in Wender’s major landmark of the New German Cinema.
Alice in the Cities
Wim Wenders
West Germany, 1974Digital Restoration
Sunday, May 15 7:30 PMView DetailsA wandering journalist finds himself stuck with someone else’s daughter in this road movie across the United States and Germany, “a fine, tightly controlled, intelligent, and ultimately touching film” (NY Times).
The Wrong Move
Wim Wenders
West Germany, 19754K Digital Restoration
Friday, May 20 8:40 PMView DetailsA hopeful young writer travels through Germany’s palaces and projects in Wenders’s road film, shot in painterly long takes. Nastassja Kinski’s debut. Loosely based on Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship.
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Wim Wenders
West Germany, 19714K Digital Restoration
Wednesday, May 25 7 PMView DetailsKicked out of a game and bored of the rules, a goalie begins a journey across contemporary West Germany. "My favorite postwar German film . . . a quiet poem of various desolations" (Stanley Kauffmann).
Wim Wenders: Early Shorts
Free admission
Digital Restorations
Wednesday, June 8 7 PMView DetailsProgram change: we are unable to screen all of the previously announced short films, so this will be a free screening of three shorts.
This program of Wenders’s extremely rare early short films showcase a nascent talent already infused with the themes and moods, from American music to modern despair, that would echo across a career.
The American Friend
Wim Wenders
West Germany, 19774K Digital Restoration!
Friday, June 10 6:30 PMView DetailsNeo-noir by way of European arthouse, Wenders’s first “commercial” film adapts Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game to tell the tale of a dying family man (Bruno Ganz) suckered into the seedy world of an American mobster (Dennis Hopper).
Kings of the Road
Wim Wenders
West Germany, 19764K Digital Restoration
Sunday, June 12 6:45 PMView DetailsA projector repairman and a depressed young man begin a road trip across the East and West German borders in Wender’s major landmark of the New German Cinema.
The American Friend
Wim Wenders
West Germany, 19774K Digital Restoration!
Saturday, June 18 6 PMView DetailsNeo-noir by way of European arthouse, Wenders’s first “commercial” film adapts Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game to tell the tale of a dying family man (Bruno Ganz) suckered into the seedy world of an American mobster (Dennis Hopper).
The Left-Handed Woman
Peter Handke
West Germany, 19784K Digital Restoration!
Sunday, June 19 7:15 PMView DetailsA married woman living in suburban Paris leaves her husband and begins a more solitary life in this rigorously poetic, Chantal Akerman-influenced work from writer/director Peter Handke and producer Wim Wenders.
The State of Things
Wim Wenders
West Germany, 19824K Digital Restoration!
Thursday, June 23 7 PMView DetailsWenders’s “film about filmmaking” moves from the rocky Portuguese coast to Hollywood, following those trapped in a doomed Hollywood project. Features Samuel Fuller, Roger Corman, Robert Kramer, and Warhol superstar Viva.
Lightning over Water
Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders
United States/West Germany, 1979Friday, June 24 8:45 PMView DetailsAn intimate portrait of the legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray—and of cinema itself—made while Ray was dying of cancer.
Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders
West Germany, France, 1984Digital Restoration
Friday, July 1 7 PMView DetailsA wanderer (Harry Dean Stanton) heads in search of his long-lost son and wife (Nastassja Kinski) in Wenders’s magisterial deconstruction of family, masculinity, and the American West.
Until the End of the World - Director's Cut
Wim Wenders
Germany, France, Australia, United States, 1991/19944K Digital Restoration
Sunday, July 3 4:30 PMView DetailsSolveig Dommartin, William Hurt, Jeanne Moreau, Chishu Ryu, Rüdiger Vogler, Max von Sydow, and Tom Waits lend their talents to Wenders’s wildly ambitious, science-fiction epic. Digitally restored director’s cut.
Tokyo-Ga
Wim Wenders
West Germany, United States, 1985Digital Restoration
Saturday, July 9 8:30 PMView DetailsWenders’s tribute to Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu takes us across Japan to meet frequent Ozu collaborators and explore contemporary life there. Chris Marker and Werner Herzog also appear.
Wings of Desire
Wim Wenders
West Germany, 1988Digital Restoration
Sunday, July 17 7:15 PMView DetailsTwo angels haunt the streets and skies of Berlin, listening in on the dreams and sorrows of its residents, in this gothic, poetic masterpiece, inspired by Rilke.
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Wim Wenders
West Germany, France, 19894K Digital Restoration
Friday, July 22 6:30 PMView DetailsWenders and famed Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto meet and muse together in this thoughtful essay film "about fashion, transience, and identity” (Janet Maslin).
Buena Vista Social Club
Wim Wenders
Germany, United States, Cuba, 1999Digital Restoration
Saturday, July 30 8:15 PMView DetailsOne of the most critically acclaimed and adored music documentaries of the past twenty years, Buena Vista Social Club is a love letter to Cuba, its music, its people, and its soul.
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