Wim Wenders: the Road Trilogy (Criterion Collection) (DVD)

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Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy (Criterion Collection) A German journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) finds his fruitless research junket through America taking a bizarre turn when a new acquaintance (Lisa Kreuzer) abandons her 9-year-old daughter (Yetta Rottländer) with him...and he’s got no choice but to bring the child on his return to Europe, in Wenders’ endearing effort "Alice in the Cities" (1974). A young would-be writer (Vogler) in search of life experience sets off to see Germany by train...and falls in with a pack of eccentrics who provide more fodder than he bargained for. "Wrong Move" (1975), Wenders’ intriguing adaptation of Goethe’s "Wilhelm Meister," co-stars Hanna Schygulla, Peter Kern, Ivan Desny, and, in her screen debut, Nastassja Kinski. As he wanders the countryside in search of work, an itinerant film projector repairman (Vogler) stops a depressed psychologist (Hanns Zischler) from committing suicide, and proceeds to show his impromptu companion what life has to offer, in Wenders’ engaging buddy tale "Kings of the Road" (1976). 6 1/2 hrs. total on four discs. Widescreen; Soundtracks: German Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; featurettes; short films "Same Player Shoots Again" (1967), "Silver City Revisited" (1968); outtakes. In German with English subtitles. DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored 4K digital transfers of all three films, commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by director Wim Wenders, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray of Alice in the Cities and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks on the Blu-rays of Wrong Move and Kings of the Road Audio commentaries on all three films New interview with Wenders, directed and conducted by filmmaker Michael Almereyda New interviews with actors Ru¨diger Vogler, Yella Rottla¨nder, Lisa Kreuzer, and Hanns Zischler Outtakes and Super 8 footage Restoring Time, a 2015 short about the restoration work done by the Wim Wenders Foundation Same Player Shoots Again (1967) and Silver City Revisited (1968), two newly restored early short films by Wenders New English subtitle translations by Wenders More! PLUS: A book featuring essays on the films by Almereyda, filmmaker Allison Anders, author James Robison, and critic Nick Roddick