Wim Wenders

Is it worth seeing The American Friend on the big screen? I have that opportunity this week. Frankly I’m afraid it might be too grim/too slow.

I think you might actually enjoy it. Think it looks really good, for one thing.

Where’s it playing?

Film Forum, part of the Patricia Highsmith series. It seems they added a few showings after it was supposed to be done with

Missed the whole thing except for the trailers. Looked interesting. Believe our old friend JBR went to see a few things.

One of his first films The Scarlet Letter was a classic story transformed to reflect the mores, aesthetics and culture of 1973. It is kind of an ultimate 1973 film in some ways

I haven't seen it, but he (and other commentators) have always been dismissive of that film, it's sort of his Boxcar Bertha.

Saw the Scarlett Letter once many years ago but didn’t really like it.

Paris, Texas is good, but I like Jim Jarmusch's Stranger The Paradise from the same year (1984) a lot more. They seem similar in some ways

I have a vague memory of reading somewhere that Stranger Than Paradise was made in part by using leftover film stock given to Jarmusch from Wenders.

Yep, short ends from Wenders' The State of Things. Robby Muller, the cinematographer on Paris, Texas, went on to work with Jarmusch a lot (but not on Stranger Than Paradise).