Kings of the Road

Kings of the Road () is a 1976 German road movie directed by Wim Wenders. It was the third part of Wenders' "Road Movie Trilogy" which included Alice in the Cities (1974) and The Wrong Move (1975). It was the unanimous winner of the FIPRESCI...

In this article: Wim Wenders, Road Movie Trilogy, Robby Muller, Cannes Film Festival, Rudiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Alice in the Cities, and The Wrong Move

...movies directed by German film director Wim Wenders in the mid-1970s. They include Alice in the Cities (1974), The Wrong Move (1975), and Kings of the Road (1976). All three films were shot by cinematographer Robby Muller and take place in...

In this article: Wim Wenders, Road Movie Trilogy, Robby Muller, Alice in the Cities, The Wrong Move, Jim Jarmusch, Paris Texas, Stranger Than Paradise, and Lisbon Story

...collaboration; film is quite different, largely because it draws so much of its strength from the contingent. The great Wim Wenders movie Kings of the Road was written on the hoof, open to chance, place and the actor. Plays carry a different...

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...in Alice in the Cities (1974), though the character Phil Winter was a photographer in the first film. The name Winter is repeated in Kings of the Road (1976), also starring Vogler, although his full name in Kings is Bruno Winter and he...

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...Diocese of Fulda (Hesse) to the Diocese of Wurzburg (Bavaria) in 1945. Ostheim is one of the stops in Wim Wenders' 1976 road trip film Kings of the Road. It is also the home of German soft drink manufacturer Bionade. Historic Old Town...

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...character name is Philip Winter, although Winter's occupation changes from film to film. Such films include Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road, Faraway, So Close!, Until the End of the World and Lisbon Story. The Wrong Move is the...

In this article: Rudiger Vogler, Wim Wenders, Alice in the Cities, The Wrong Move, Peter Handke, Lisbon Story, The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty, and Until the End of the World

...as well as its clear spiritual forefather. His German road movie trilogy, Alice in the Cities (1974), The Wrong Move (1975), and Kings of the Road (1976) is the obvious stylistic influence here, in particular the monochrome photography...

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...and later works with muse Hanna Schygulla, while Wenders shows off groovy 1970s threads during an elaborate Cannes fest photo op for "Kings of the Road." Individual film clips tend to pull auds out of the narrative moment and create a...

In this article: Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Handke, Hark Bohm, Cancer, and New Yorker Films

...film festival, the launching pad for his international career. Soon he was filming in the United States, completing the trilogy with "Kings of the Road" (1976) and staying on to direct "The American Friend" (1977), an adaptation of the...

In this article: Wim Wenders, Venice Film Festival, Paris, Texas, Buena Vista Social Club, Cannes Film Festival, Patricia Highsmith, Ripley's Game, Alice in the Cities, and The Wrong Move

...known that once-revered German auteur Wim Wenders doesn't make films like he used to. The director of such cinema classics as "Kings of the Road" (1976), "The American Friend" (1977), "Paris, Texas" (1984) and "Wings of Desire" (1987)...

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