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...Family Viewing, which ultimately deals with Van's oedipal conflict with his father, helped make Egoyan a known commodity in the film world. This visibility was increased through a highly publicized incident at the Montreal Film Festival, in which veteran director Wim Wenders handed first prize to Egoyan after winning for Wings of Desire...
...look at Alain Delon (the delicate stud of Purple Noon) or Dennis Hopper (who gave Ripley a cowboy swagger in the 1977 The American Friend, Wim Wenders' adaptation of Ripley's Game) and see an actor sharpening his tools: the attentiveness, the useful smile, the waiting for a cue to make his move. Ripley watches Dickie, and an actor prepares. We watch the actor playing Ripley and learn the secrets of his duplicitous craft. It's as if a famous seducer had made a how-to video...
...probably missed it last night, so it's playing again. Wim Wenders's "Alice in the Cities" tracks the budding friendship of a German photojournalist (Rudgier Vogler) and an abandoned 9-year-old girl (Yella Rottlander) as they search for her mother (Lisa Kreuzer). German with English subtitles, black-and-white, 16mm. The Harvard Film Archive, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Main Auditorium. 495-4700. 9:45 p.m. FREE...
...well my resume is somewhat exaggerated. During an audition with the director Wim Wenders, he saw that I had played Hamlet a Few years ago. He said that I must Have been the youngest Hamlet ever. It was actually from high school. I should really update my resume...
Most movies don't begin by asking the viewer to define a word, but Wim Wenders' intensely bizarre The End of Violence does. From the moment the voice-over at the opening credits declares that we should define violence "since we're making a movie about it," it becomes clear that this film is stubbornly going to refuse to submit itself to any familiar genre...