Alice in the Cities

Director: Wim Wenders

1974 / 113min / DCP

The first of the road movies that would go on to make Wenders’s international reputation, Alice in the Cities criss-crosses the United States and Europe with Polaroid-snapping, emotionally isolated German journalist Rüdiger Vogler, whose fruitless research US trip ends with him tasked with returning a nine-year-old girl (Yella Rottländer) to her home somewhere in Deutschland on his return, finding a sliver of renewal in the process. Featuring an original score by Can and, enriching the film’s musing on landscape, evocative black-and-white photography from Müller—though the live footage of Chuck Berry must be credited to D.A. Pennebaker.

Part of Robby Müller: Remain in Light