Monday | November 6, 2000 9:30 pm

The American Friend
(Der amerikanische Freund)

Screening on Film

Directed by Wim Wenders.
With Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer.
West Germany, 1977, 35mm, color, 123 min.
German with English subtitles.

International intrigue, art and homicide, film and contemporary culture form the matrix of themes that underpin Wenders’s brilliant quasi-thriller, loosely adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s novel Ripley’s Game. A terminally ill picture framer in Hamburg (Ganz) reluctantly agrees to become a hit man to insure the future of his soon-to-be widow (Kreuzer). Duplicity and ambiguity reign as he crosses paths with double-crossing killers (including filmmaker Sam Fuller) and shady American art dealer Tom Ripley, played by Dennis Hopper in cowboy gear.

November 1 – December 12, 2000

New German Cinema: Alternative Visions and Utopian Designs

September 22–November 24, 2003

The New German Cinema (Revisited)

April 9–10, 2005

Tremors of Forgery: Filming Patricia Highsmith

June 3–22, 2005

Matters of Life and Death:
The Films of Bruno Ganz

March 23–May 12, 2018

2018 Norton Lectures in Cinema
Wim Wenders

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

October 18–November 3

António Campos and the Promise of Cinema Novo

sepia photo of Artie Freedman in silhouette with a video camera at show

November 8

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a mausoleum that looks like a miniature Spanish cathedral, next to a variety of others, against an evening sky

November 11

The Night Watchman by Natalia Almada

a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

November 23

Wings of a Serf

a close-up of a Bissau-Guinean woman wearing a scarf on her head and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile

November 25

Le Dépays + Sans soleil