Wim Wenders Retrospective: The American Friend

Screening times: Saturday, November 7, 8:30 PM Wim Wenders | Germany | 1977 | 125m Our retrospective focuses on German director Wim Wenders this month. We present three classics from the auteur's oeuvre, The American Friend (1977), Paris, Texas (1984), and Wings of Desire (1987) screening Saturday nights in November! American expatriate Tom (Dennis Hopper) treats Hamburg, Germany, like it's the Wild West and makes a living by hawking art forgeries, but decides to take part in a murder plot for extra cash. All Tom has to do to earn his share is find a potential assassin who won't do any talking, and he has the perfect man: Jonathan (Bruno Ganz), a dying cancer patient desperate to leave his family an inheritance. Jonathan begrudgingly accepts, but he's no gunman, and the scheme quickly goes sour. "Superb adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game, with Hopper as her amiably cynical hero." - Tom Milne, Time Out "Gripping 1977 American thriller from Wim Wenders that turns back on itself with deadly European irony." - David Kehr, Chicago Reader Tickets $12 ($11.40 at the door if available) Saturday, November 7, 8:30 PM tickets