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- US RELEASED DISC.
- (REGION A) PLAYS ON REGION A BLU-RAY PLAYERS ONLY.
The American Friend Blu-ray
Der amerikanische Freund
Criterion | 1977 | 125 min | Not rated | Jan 12, 2016
Discs
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
UPC 715515165716
FOREIGN
MYSTERY
THRILLER
CRIME
The American Friend (1977) Blu-ray
Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. But another criminal business associate wants Tom to go in for an even riskier enterprise: murder. Tom suggests his associate ask a local picture framer instead. That man has a fatal disease, or so it's rumored. More, he has a wife and kid that surely he wouldn't want to leave penniless. Let this picture framer be a hit man, and no one will suspect. The terminally ill craftsman may agree to the misdeed, and several more, but he'll end up needing Tom Ripley in a pinch.
Director: Wim Wenders
Writers: Wim Wenders, Patricia Highsmith
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller
The American Friend
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 for a personal slight—but when the two become embroiled in an ever-deepening murder plot, they form an unlikely bond. Filmed on location in Hamburg and Paris, with some scenes shot in grimy, late-seventies New York City, Wenders's international breakout is a stripped-down crime story that mixes West German and American film flavors, and it features cameos by filmmakers Jean Eustache, Samuel Fuller, and Nicholas Ray.
Special Features:
New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Wim Wenders, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary from 2002 featuring Wenders and actor Dennis Hopper
New interview with Wenders
New interview with actor Bruno Ganz
Deleted scenes with audio commentary by Wenders
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by author Francine Prose
STREET DATE: JANUARY 12.
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