Anatomy (Anatomie) 2000  R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Cast: Franka Potente, Benno Furmann, Anna Loos, Sebastian Blomberg, Holger Speckhahn, Traugott Buhre, Oliver Wnuk, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Andreas Gunther, Rudiger Vogler
When medical student Paula Hening (Franka Potente) begins study at a prestigious Heidelberg medical school, she is shocked to find the cadaver of a man she had just met. Investigation turns up a conspiracy: research involving vivisections on living humans.
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Kings of the Road 1976  N/R, 176 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: In the Course of Time
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Rudiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schundler, Marquard Bohm, Hans Dieter Trayer, Franziska Stommer, Patric Kreuzer, Peter Kaiser, Michael Wiedemann, Wim Wenders
Movie projector repairman Bruno (Rudiger Vogler) travels from one small-town theater in West Germany to another while living in his beat-up truck. One day, a VW Beetle speeds by and ends up in the river. The occupant Robert (Hanns Zischler) gets out of the car after his half-hearted attempt at suicide, is picked up by Bruno, and they take off together as Bruno continues his route. This is the ultimate road movie by Wim Wenders that makes statements on many matters that occupied the lives of people living through the Cold War and the changes in society that were taking place.
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Lisbon Story 1994  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Rudiger Vogler, Patrick Bauchau, Vasco Sequeira, Canto e Castro, Viriato Jose da Silva, Joao Canijo, Ricardo Colares, Joel Ferreira, Sofia Benard da Costa, Vera Cunha Rocha
Phillip Winter (Rudiger Vogler) arrives in Lisbon after receiving a call for help from his friend, the director Friedrich Monroe (Patrick Bauchau), who needs help finishing his film. But when Winter arrives, there is no sign of Monroe and, while searching for his friend, Winter makes use of sound equipment with which he captures the sounds of Lisbon and meditates on the nature of cinema.
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Marianne and Juliane 1981  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rudiger Vogler, Doris Schade, Franz Rudnick, Verenice Rudolph, Luc Bondy, Julia Biedermann, Ina Robinski, Patrick Estrada-Pox
Two sisters, Juliane (Jutta Lampe) and Marianne (Barbara Sukowa), become embroiled in West Germany's political turmoil during the 1960s and 1970s, but they employ very different methods to obtain their goals. Exceptionally well acted.
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Night Sun 1990 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Cast: Julian Sands, Nastassja Kinski, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Massimo Bonetti, Margarita Lozano, Patricia Millardet, Pamela Villoresi, Rudiger Vogler, Sonia Gessner, Tony Sperandeo, Matilde Piana, Teresa Brescianini
Based on a story by Leo Tolstoy, nobleman Sergio (Julian Sands) is to be wed (in an arranged marriage) to Cristina (Nastassja Kinski). When he finds out that she was the king's mistress, he becomes a monk–distancing himself from the outside world. But life will not be simple for Sergio as women desire him, and his reputation as a miracle-worker spreads.
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The Scarlet Letter 1972 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Senta Berger, Lou Castel, Hans Christian Blech, Yella Rottlander, Yelena Samarina, William Layton, Rudiger Vogler, Tito Garcia, Jose Villasante, Alfredo Mayo
This is a good Wim Wenders rendition of the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic tale. Wenders' characterization of the early immigrants' biases and customs is interesting, and the acting is likewise good. It tells the story of Hester Prynne (Senta Berger) who is disgraced after having a sexual encounter and must wear the letter "A" on her blouse, and of the Reverend (Lou Castel) living with his indiscretion but sworn to secrecy by Hester.
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Until the End of the World 1991 R, 178 min.
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Adventure
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Solveig Dommartin, William Hurt, Sam Neill, Max von Sydow, Rudiger Vogler, Jeanne Moreau, Chick Ortega, Lois Chiles, Adelle Lutz, Jean-Charles Dumay, Eddy Mitchell, Allen Garfield, David Gulpilil
As the world worries about a nuclear satellite crashing on Earth, Claire (Solveig Dommartin) has a car accident with bank robbers who then give her some of their heist to drop off in Paris. Along the way, Claire meets an American, Sam Farber (William Hurt), who is trying to elude the CIA. They hit it off until Sam steals some of the heist from Claire. Now Claire travels the world, through many countries, chasing Sam and ends up in Australia where Sam's father (Max von Sydow) has a laboratory in which he has invented a camera used by Sam on his trek. The camera will play back images that Sam's blind mother (Jeanne Moreau) can see. Even more important, the camera will allow dreams to be recorded. All this is accomplished while it is believed that a nuclear holocaust has taken place and presumably destroyed civilization.
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The Wrong Move 1975 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Wrong Movement
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Rudiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Kern, Ivan Desny, Marianne Hoppe, Lisa Kreuzer, Adolf Hansen, Wim Wenders
Aspiring writer Wilhelm (Rudiger Vogler) sets off on a train ride to Bonn and along the way meets good-looking Therese Farner (Hanna Schygulla), ex-Olympian Laertes (Hans Christian Blech) with his mute teen companion Mignon (Nastassja Kinski), and not-so-great poet Bernhard Landau (Peter Kern). But, within this group, personal connections are not easy to attain.
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| 1. Anatomy (Anatomie) (2000)
2. Kings of the Road (1976)
aka: In the Course of Time
3. Lisbon Story (1994)
4. Marianne and Juliane (1981)
5. Night Sun (1990)
6. The Scarlet Letter (1972)
7. Until the End of the World (1991)
8. The Wrong Move (1975)
aka: The Wrong Movement
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