Capital Celluloid 2018 - Day 163: Thu Jun 21

Alice in the Cities (Wenders, 1974): Prince Charles Cinema, 3.45pm


This 35mm screening is part of the Wim Wenders season at the Prince Charles Cinema (details here). The film also screens on June 17th. Click here for all the information.

Chicago Reader review:
Wim Wenders's roughly styled but sensitive 1974 film about fading cultural identities. Long-faced Rüdiger Vogler, a Wenders favorite, is a German photojournalist in search of the Real America. While in New York, he reluctantly accepts responsibility for Alice, a nine-year-old German girl abandoned by her mother. Together they return to Europe in search of the girl's grandmother, remembered, dimly, as living in a small village. Which one, they don't know. Without a place to stop, the characters continue to move—restlessly, desperately, the end point always out of sight.
Dave Kehr


Here (and above) is an extract. 

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