Wim Wenders Road Trilogy (DVD)

In the 1970s, Wim Wenders was among the first true international breakthrough artists of the revolutionary New German Cinema movement, a filmmaker whose fascination with the physical landscapes and emotional contours of the open road proved to be universal. In the middle of that decade, Wenders embarked on a three-film journey that took him from the wide roads of Germany to the endless highways of the United States and back again. Each starring Rudiger Vogler as the directors alter ego, "Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move," and "Kings of the Road" are dramas of emotional transformation that follow their characters searches for themselves, all rendered with uncommon soulfulness and visual poetry.