The American Friend - The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) Haro Aso Cassidy’s fine art training translates

Cassidy’s fine art training translates with ease into graphic storytelling

balance disarming simplicity with emotional depth

He also shifted from the heavy sampling found in his earlier work to focus on live instrumentation

barreling through the long-forgotten

Tsuge’s fiction focused on the lives of the citizens of Japan

The American Friend - The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) Haro Aso Cassidy’s fine art training translatesA terminally ill Hamburg picture framer (Bruno Ganz) is manipulated by a shady American art dealer (Dennis Hopper) into becoming a contract killer for the mob. Wim Wenders's atmospheric, sun drenched thrillerloosely adapted from Patricia Highsmith's Ripley's Gameis both a loving homage to American genre cinema and a meditation on identity, friendship, and the corrosive influence of money. Packed with cameos from directors Nicholas Ray and Samuel