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

January 17–March 2

The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

January 27–February 9

Rosine Mbakam, 2025 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 1–9

The Illusory Tableaux of Georges Méliès

February 3–16

Activism and Post-Activism. Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

February 7–14

Fables of the Reconstruction. Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

February 21–March 10

Ben Rivers, Back to the Land

February 22–April 5

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

February 22

Make Way for Tomorrow. Carson Lund’s Eephus

February 23–24

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue