The American Friend (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 12, 2016
- Originally Released: 1977
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Dennis Hopper & Bruno Ganz | |
| Performer: | Lisa Kreuzer, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller & Gérard Blain | |
| Directed by | Wim Wenders | |
| Edited by | Peter Przygodda | |
| Screenwriting by | Wim Wenders | |
| Original story by | Patricia Highsmith | |
| Composition by | Jürgen Knieper | |
| Produced by | Wim Wenders | |
| Director of Photography: | Robby Müller |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3/4 --
There's something cheerfully perverse about filming a thriller and then tossing out the parts that would help it make sense, but Wim Wenders has a certain success with the method.
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Chicago Sun-Times
An absorbing but rarefied, introspective variation on traditional thrilleer motifs, it's probably not the synthetis between the personal and traditional that Wenders needs but it's a fascinating compulsively watchable experiment.
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Washington Post
Rating: 4/4 --
A gripping Hitchockian thriller based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3/4 --
Although it is a thriller by genre, Wenders is clearly interested in things beyond the mechanics of Ripley's manipulations and Zimmermann's desperation
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Q Network Film Desk
... only a filmmaker as humane as [director Wim Wenders] could recognize there's no way out of the story's moral corruption.
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RogerEbert.com
...[One] of the most interesting American underworld movies of recent years....An extremely beautiful film...
New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Most Highsmith adaptations have turned out to be satisfying movies -- the earliest example being Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train and the most recent being Carol -- and this one's no exception.
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Product Description:
Jonathan Zimmermann, a German picture-framer, is dying of a rare blood disease. Despite his illness, the happily married Jonathan does his best to live each day to the fullest with his wife and child. But when Tom Ripley, a cunning American gangster, learns of Jonathan's sickness, he convinces the dying man--deeply concerned about his family's financial future--to work as a hit man for a big payoff. Will Jonathan get in over his head by making a deal that could ruin what's left of his life' German director Wim Wenders delivers a sensitive, film-noirish tribute to the American gangster film, based on the novel RIPLEY'S GAME by Patricia Highsmith.
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- UPC: 715515165716
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