MFAH Film Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road – Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Stdten)
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- When
- February 05, 2016
- Where
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston – Brown Auditorium
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston,TX 77006 - Cost
- $2 - $1001
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road series.
The Museum is pleased to participate in the international celebration of talented German filmmaker, Wim Wenders, taking advantage of new digital restorations.
First earning an international reputation as a cofounder of the New German Cinema movement in the 1970s, his remarkable filmography since then includes award-winning features and documentaries. His classic road trilogy screens in February, and will be followed by more films during 2016.
Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Städten)
Directed by Wim Wenders
1974 in German with English subtitles
West Germany
B/W
112 minutes
In Alice in the Cities—the first part of Wim Wenders’s Road Trilogy—German journalist Philip Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) wants to write a story about the United States.
Philip shoots a series of Polaroids in New York before disappointedly beginning his journey back home, empty-handed. He reluctantly agrees to take little Alice (Yella Rottländer) with him at the request of her distracted mother (Lisa Kreuzer), but the mother then fails to appear in Amsterdam.
As Philip and Alice search together for Alice’s grandmother, the initial dislike between the pair transforms into affection.
