Nicholas Ray

1950s Western starring Joan Crawford as a saloon owner wrongly accused of murder by her rival. Inducted into the USA National Film Registry in 2008.

Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realise his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.

Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man. Starring Dennis Hopper, directed by Wim Wenders.

The immortal James Dean ended his big-screen legacy with this 1955 classic, an ode to teenagers and delinquents. Rebellious and emotionally scarred, teenager Jim Stark rages against the adult world and seeks the love his family didn’t give him...