{"id":15885,"date":"2023-09-23T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15885"},"modified":"2023-09-23T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T15:33:56","slug":"alice-in-the-cities-1974-wim-wenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15885","title":{"rendered":"Alice in the Cities (1974, Wim Wenders)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early Wenders muse R\u00fcdiger Vogler drives past Richmond, gets to NYC and sells his car, then goes to Shea Stadium &#8211; I like this guy already.  He&#8217;s a writer\/photographer disowned by his editor for wandering the States and ignoring his story and deadlines, but he&#8217;s got enough cash to fly home.  After he meets a woman and her daughter at the airport then the woman disappears, the movie sneakily adopts my least favorite movie plot of all (aimless adult gets stuck with precocious child), but somehow remains good.  Robby M\u00fcller did nice work in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14185\">Goalie<\/a><\/em>, kills it here.  Almost Kaurism\u00e4kian in its large-heartedness &#8211; rare that I watch a movie from the 1970s and think things were better back then.  R\u00fcdiger keeps behaving in a very relatable manner (he drops the girl at a police station and goes to a Chuck Berry concert).<\/p>\n<p>R\u00fcdiger on TV: &#8220;All these TV images come down to the same common, ugly message: a kind of vicious contempt. No image leaves you in peace. They all want something from you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/alicecit1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/alicecit2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/alicecit3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Wenders muse R\u00fcdiger Vogler drives past Richmond, gets to NYC and sells his car, then goes to Shea Stadium &#8211; I like this guy already. He&#8217;s a writer\/photographer disowned by his editor for wandering the States and ignoring his story and deadlines, but he&#8217;s got enough cash to fly home. After he meets a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,122,361,428,1058,564],"class_list":["post-15885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-germany","tag-new-york","tag-photography","tag-road-trip","tag-wim-wenders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15913,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15885\/revisions\/15913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}