The State of Things
UW Cinematheque 821 University Ave., UW Vilas Hall, Room 4070, Madison, Wisconsin
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THE STATE OF THINGS (DER STAND DER DINGE); West Germany, USA | 1982 | DCP | 121 min.
Director: Wim Wenders; Cast: Patrick Bauchau, Samuel Fuller, Allen Goorwitz (Garfield)
German director Friedrich (Bauchau), his American cameraman (Fuller), and the international crew on a low-budget sci-fi movie are stranded in Europe when the producer (Garfield) disappears before shooting is finished. With nothing to do but wait, Friedrich decides to travel to Los Angeles in search of the producer and walks into a world of crime. Wenders’ existential and deeply personal thriller was inspired by his experiences making the Francis Ford Coppola-produced Hammett (1982).
Along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders completes the triumvirate of internationally acclaimed filmmakers that emerged in the New German Cinema movement of the 1970s. The titles selected for this retrospective series represent Wenders’ very best movies from the 70s and 80s. Many of the selections reveal Wenders’ particular talent in finding new kinds of “road movies” that feature his protagonists traveling through multiple cities and sometimes across continents.
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