Eight films from German New wave master Wim Wenders, including the DVD debut of five films. Wenders made A Trick of Light (1995), a playful tribute to Max Skladonowski and the creation of the first projected film images in Europe (a full two months before the Lumiere Brothers screened their work in Paris), in collaboration with a class at Berlin Film School over the course of three years. The Scarlet Letter (1973), shot in Spain (doubling for 17th century New England), is his adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel and the young director's first work-for-hire assignment. Wrong Move (1975), the story of an aspiring writer (Rudiger Volger) who hits the road in search of inspiration, is a loose adaptation of a Goethe novel scripted by longtime collaborator Peter Handke. Hanna Schygulla, Nastassja Kinski, Ivan Desny, and Lisa Kreuzer co-star in the dour drama. Room 666 (1982) is his documentary rumination on the state of cinema, shot during the 1982 cannes Film Festival and featuring the comments of Chantal Akerman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jonathan Demme, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Monte Hellman, Werner Herzog, and Steven Spielberg, among others. Tokyo-Ga (1985) is Wenders' documentary tribute to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo. The set also features three previously released films: The American Friend (1977), Wenders' take on Patricia Highsmith’s novel "Ripley’s Game" (the sequel to The Talented Mr. Ripley) starring Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper, the documentary/fiction hybrid Lightning Over Water (1980), a collaboration between co-directors and co-stars Wenders and Nicholas Ray shot as Ray died of cancer, and the documentary Notebooks on Cities & Clothes (1989), a portrait of designer Yohji Yamamoto as he prepares his new season’s collections.
