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Page-to-Screen: Wim Wenders’s The American Friend and Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley Novels

By Brian Greene

January 15, 2016

When writing about a film adaptation of a work of fiction, it can get a little tricky when the movie in question is actually based on two different novels. But in the case of the 1977 neo-noir title, The American Friend by Wim Wenders, it’s really not all that complicated. The movie’s characters and plot…

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The Killer Inside My Holiday

By Kate Horsley

Page-to-Screen: Wim Wenders’s The American Friend and Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley Novels

By Brian Greene