Product Details

• Actors: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Gerry Bamman, Ronee Blakley, Pierre Cottrell
• Directors: Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders
• Writers: Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders, Francois Burkhardt, Patricia Highsmith
• Producers: Chris Sievernich, Joachim von Mengershausen
• Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: German (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), German (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
• DVD Release Date: April 6, 2004
• Run Time: 296 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001LJCQQ
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #56,896 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Wim Wenders Collection (The American Friend/Lightning Over Water/Notebook on Cities and Clothes)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Customer Reviews

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34 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great box set from Anchor Bay!!!, April 20, 2004

By	Jason Pumphrey (Falls Church, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This is one great box set from Anchor Bay!!! 3 great Wim Wenders classics in one great collection!!! Contains "Lightning Over Water", "Notebook On Cities & Clothes" and "The American Friend". Each film is personally restored by Wenders himself and lodaed with facinating new extras!!! Extras include:Commentaires on all 3 films by Wenders himself including one(The American Friend) with guest Dennis Hopper!!!,deleted scenes with commentary by Wender:on "The American Friend" and and "Notebook On Cities & Clothes" and "Nicholas Ray:Especially For Pierre"-a 38 minute lecture by Nicholas Ray(on "Lightning Over Water" and more!!! If you like Wim Wenders, you'll love this wonderful box set!!! Two thumbs up!!! Way up!!! Five Stars!!! A+

4.0 out of 5 stars Good starting point for examining Wenders' work, June 8, 2009

By	crown of indica "buckethead noir" (saint paul,mn,usa) - See all my reviews

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All three films in this package are presented well but lack many extras.The 2 documentaries are very interesting portraits of people and touch on more than just their work--you get a feel for who they are as people.The feature,"The American Friend" is an interesting,non-conventional story that resembles something that Keislowski might come up with:personal,lacking distracting cuts every few seconds,and full of atmospheric scenes that allow the actors to slowly form the story.

5 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A posthumous homage!, February 15, 2006

By	Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

When Nicholas Ray ` s creative spark was vanishing and the winter dreams arrived at the end of the road, Wenders inquired him to make the last documental-interview around his thoughts, points of view and other subjects in NYC .

Ray was dying of cancer but far to behave himself as a Romantic figure, Ray makes what a man must do: accept the death `s call and not to give up.

I still remember a smart statement of Bette Davis : "To get old is not for the weak people." And the undeniable talent of this German filmmaker this bold and painful testimonial will endure the sudden reverses of the forgetfulness and the fragile collective memory.

"The glory is the sun of dead" Balzac.