Arts > Movies > Directors > List > Nicholas Ray   1911-1979

Dennis Hopper (left), Nicholas Ray, 1978, Barstow

Photograph: Wim Wenders

‘Once, together with Dennis Hopper,

we drove from Los Angeles all the way up to Barstow

in the middle of the Mojave Desert, to see Nick Ray.

Miloš Forman was shooting the movie version of Hair,

and Nick played the general in it, in spite of the cancer

he had just been diagnosed with.

Dennis knew Nick from a long time ago,

when Nick had given him a small part in Rebel Without a Cause.

Dennis had become best friends with James Dean.

Later that night the conversation inevitably turned to James Dean

and Nick proudly declared: “I taught him how to walk!”’

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Light fantastic: the road trip that inspired Paris, Texas – in pictures

In 1983, Wim Wenders set out across the American west,

capturing the sunsets and desolate landscapes that helped shape his iconic movie

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Thu 30 Jan 2025    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/jan/30/
wim-wenders-paris-texas-road-trip-in-pictures

They Live by Night    Nicholas Ray    1948

Criterion

https://www.criterion.com/films/28717-they-live-by-night

The American Friend    1977    modern trailer

The American Friend (Modern Trailer)

video    trailer    DM Edit    9 June 2017

Part of my trailer project

- breathing some new life into older, forgotten or overlooked films.

Mainly to spread awareness of these great films

and hopefully inspire more people to seek them out.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3MZRpIB914

The American Friend    original trailer    1977

The American Friend    1977

video Original Trailer [HD]    HD Retro Trailers

Directed by Wim Wenders.

With Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz and Lisa Kreuzer.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XwSfIuM2kU

Nicholas Ray    USA   1911-1979

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Nicholas_Ray

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/jan/30/
wim-wenders-paris-texas-road-trip-
in-pictures

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archives/nicholas-ray-67-
director-of-films-johnny-guitar-rebel-without-a.html

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wim-wenders-paris-texas-road-trip-
in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/05/
johnny-guitar-review-nicholas-ray-joan-crawford-sterling-hayden-1954-western

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/
movies/homevideo/wim-wenderss-the-american-friend.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/movies/17ray.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/News_Story/
Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/
0,4267,1094468,00.html - 28 November 2003

https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/mar/25/
derekmalcolmscenturyoffilm.derekmalcolm 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/dec/27/
penelope-houston

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archives/nicholas-ray-67-director-of-films-johnny-guitar-rebel-without-a.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1956/08/03/
archives/screen-tax-of-tedium-bigger-than-life-has-debut-at-victoria.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1955/10/27/
archives/the-screen-delinquency-rebel-without-cause-has-debut-at-astor.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1954/05/28/
archives/
the-screen-in-review-johnny-guitar-opens-at-the-mayfair.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1950/05/18/
archives/
the-screen-three-films-make-their-bows-humphrey-bogart-movie-in-a.html

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