Wim Wenders’ KINGS OF THE ROAD - A Vic Skolnick Favorite Film

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sun, Jun 25, 2017 2:30 PM

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Vic Skolnick Remembrance - A Vic Skolnick Favorite Film


Wim Wenders’ KINGS OF THE ROAD (IM LAUF DER ZEIT)

Sunday, June 25 | Outdoor garden reception 2:30 pm, Film 3 pm

Join us for a celebration of Cinema Co-Founder Vic Skolnick, featuring a screening of one of his favorite films. Wim Wenders’ poetic tale about a roving film projector repairman and a suicidal psychologist who end up traveling from one rural German movie theater to another is a love letter to the cinema, a moving and funny tale of male friendship, and a portrait of a country still haunted by war.

Wim Wenders capped his “Road Movie trilogy” with what may be the all-time greatest road movie, the unanimous winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. A roving film projector repairman (Rüdiger Vogler) saves the life of a depressed psychologist (Hanns Zischler) who has driven his Volkswagen into a river, and they end up on the road together, traveling from one rural German movie theater to another. Along the way, the two men, each running from his past, bond over their shared loneliness. Kings of the Road, captured in gorgeous compositions by cinematographer Robby Müller and dedicated to Fritz Lang, is a love letter to the cinema, a moving and funny tale of male friendship, and a portrait of a country still haunted by war. (West Germany, 1976, 175 min., PG, German with English subtitles, Black & White | Dir. Wim Wenders)