The Wim Wenders Collection, Vol. 2
by Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders

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DVD Review: The Wim Wenders Collection Vol 2
Summary: 5 Stars

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Tokyo-Ga: Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in the films of Yasujiro Ozu

Wrong Move: Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. Couplings and rare bursts of feeling come as surprises; other characters remain alone.

Lightning Over Water: Wim Wenders helps his friend Nicholas Ray realize his final wish of completing a final film before his imminent death from cancer.

The Scarlet Letter: Based on a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

A Trick of Light: Award-winning Documentary

The American Friend: A metaphor for the relationship between American and German culture. Includes the cameo appearance of several Hollywood directors.

Notebook on Cities & Clothes: Wim Wenders talks with a Japanese fashion designer about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age.

Ray has a small part in the extraordinary The American Friend, a major success in Wenders career and a thriller based on Patricia Highsmith's novels about sociopath Tom Ripley. Dennis Hopper plays an isolated, deranged version of Ripley, seen here as an art dealer who sets up a dying restorer (Bruno Ganz) to commit a murder, then regrets his actions and becomes the innocent man's ally. The rest of Vol. 2 is more of Wenders' fascinating documentaries, including the wonderful Tokyo-Ga, a moving and sporadically funny 1985 essay about contemporary Tokyo and how it measures up to the Tokyo portrayed in the masterpieces of the late filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. Room 666 (1984) is an unusual experiment in which several other world-class filmmakers consent to a spontaneous interview, one after the other, in a hotel room. Another experimental work, A Trick of Light (1996), concerns the Skladanowsky brothers, inventors of the Bioscope projector. Much of the film was shot using the film pioneers' own, 19th century equipment. Finally, Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989) is an intriguing piece about Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto, whose design process is viewed in the context of the computer age and digital information. Special features include a filmed lecture by Nicholas Ray, and commentary by Wenders on each of the movies. --Tom Keogh

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