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	friend. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.
		One who supports, sympathizes with, or patronizes a group, cause, or movement: friends of the clean air movement.
		Friend A member of the Society of Friends; a Quaker.
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	Earlham Libraries Friends Collection--American Friend Obituary Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This index of obituaries and death notices in the American Friend was compiled between 1996 and 1999 by Thomas D. Hamm.
		The American Friend, published between 1894 and 1960, was formed through the merger of the Philadelphia Friends' Review and the Chicago Christian Worker in 1894.
		From 1894 to 1912 the American Friend was published in Philadelphia, owned by small group of Quaker stockholders and edited first by Rufus M. Jones and then by Herman Newman.
	www.earlham.edu /~libr/quaker/obituaries (505 words)

	EI > DVD > The American Friend (1977) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		American Red Cross volunteers have been deployed to the hardest hit areas of Katrina’s destruction, supplying hundreds of thousands victims left homeless with critical necessities.
		to be Raoul Minot (Gerard Blain), a friend from the underworld.
		While Wim Wenders was not the filmmaker that Werner Herzog is, he did a great job with "The American Friend." Ignore the naysayers on this one.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/dvd/theamericanfriend.php (1002 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: The American Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		But what Highsmith adds in every work, including the american friend is the lack of any kind of feeling or ethical consideration carried to a level that they become in models.
		The American Friend is a particularly trenchant example of Wim Wenders' favorite theme--the outsider in a different culture (cf.
		An unusual and strong neo-noir, The American Friend is a unique film that is a key work in the Wenders oeuvre.
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	Buy The American Friend [1977] DVDs at the Best UK Price (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		That's not a complaint--it's what makes The American Friend one of the most stylish (and at the time most expensive) films to emerge from the new German cinema of the 1970s.
		The plotting is vague to the point of irrelevance; Wenders prefers to maintain the aura of mystery rather than generating any conventional suspense and expresses his affection for American movies by casting favourite directors Nicholas Ray and Samuel Fuller in pivotal supporting roles.
		An American Friend, as it happens, is very loosely based on the same Patricia Highsmith novel.
	dvd-search.co.uk /B00009KP1D/The_American_Friend_1977.html (185 words)

	Buy Crime & Criminals: The American Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The American Friend moves quickly into a documentary type of mood with now and then a touch of fl humor.
		As those specific scenes could have easily break The American Friend into pieces if it was too theatrical or not in harmony with the mood that was set.
		Slow at times, _The American Friend_ is a film that gains most of its appeal from the richness of the characters.
	vhs-video.video-dvd.com.ru /C_168730/G_6304442181/The-American-Friend.html (969 words)

	Amerikanische Freund, Der (1977) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Based on the novel Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith, Wim Wenders The American Friend is a probing character study of two very different men, one a solitary high stakes adventurer, the other a staid family man grown desperate by his circumstances.
		Ganz is fully believable as the decent man tortured by a moral dilemma and Hopper, rebounding from a period of substance abuse, turns in a performance of diabolical intensity as the underworld-connected profiteer.
		The American Friend avoids the temptation to be simply another film noir thriller or a good versus evil escapade, showing fully realized human beings who have thoughts and feelings we can understand even when we strongly disapprove of their actions.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0075675 (643 words)

	kamera.co.uk - film review - The American Friend directed by Director: Wim Wenders - reviewed by ...
		When he is approached by an old friend in trouble, he finds himself at the centre of gangland conflict.
		Wenders' strength as a director during the 70s lay in exploring the troubled psyche of his male characters and mining the vein that lay between American and European cultures.
		The American Friend continued these themes, which are highlighted in the opening scenes.
	www.kamera.co.uk /reviews_extra/the_american_friend.php (539 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: The American Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		There's something cheerfully perverse about filming a thriller and then tossing out the parts that would help it make sense, but Wim Wenders has a certain success with the method in "The American Friend." He challenges us to admit that we watch (and read) thrillers as much for atmosphere as for plot.
		He examines the growth of a friendship between the German and the American -- a friendship, with its uneasy possibilities of danger and death, that suggests the relationship between the Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten characters in "The Third Man."
		And the look of the film is hypnotic: The brashness and deepness of the colors, the exaggeration of lighting and setting, the extraordinary subtlety of some scenes and the almost aggressively cheap and garish look of others.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19770101/REVIEWS/701010302/1023 (686 words)

	An American Friend. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In spite of his name what an adorable little American tree it is. The fruit is a pinkish red and of a shape that is like a dear little apple.
		There are such a lot of these American hawthorns and they are all so fascinating.
		The best-known is the Washington thorn, and even that brilliantly autumn-coloured little tree is not as well known as one would imagine.
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	Sha!: The American Friend Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Apparently, non-Jewish women in the States are attracted to Jewish guys because the latter are warm and open (read: constantly analyzing their relationship in a neurotic way) and devoted to women (read: devoted to their mamas) in a way that goyische men apparently are not.
		Back around the time "Seinfeld" was hitting the peak of its popularity, a friend of mine in New York told me that Jewish guys had become a hot dating commodity in some parts of the States.
		And to my Democratic friends, all I can offer is condolences and maybe point you in the direction of Michelle Catalano's analysis of it.
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	The American Friend / Wim Wenders - The Official Site
		oday a cult film, The American Friend is based on the novel "Ripley's Game" by Patricia Highsmith and won the German Critics Prize in 1977.
		Jonathan's American friend, displaced cowboy Ripley (Dennis Hopper), decides to use his illness to his advantage.
		Ripley introduces him to a gangster who proposes to the dying man that he should become a professional mob assassin, assuring a large legacy for his wife and children.
	www.wim-wenders.com /movies/movies_spec/theamericanfriend/the_american_friend.htm (172 words)

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		Other people, my friends and family who have been displaced, are apparently stronger than I am.
		For the 15 years I've called New Orleans my home-away-from-home, there have been some minor changes in the cast of characters, but there are so many people who I can count on seeing there every time I go...
		from my friends, to the bar staff at the Maple Leaf, to another oyster shucker -- the poor soul who has been sitting behind the counter at Cooter Brown's apparently forever.
	blog.electricorange.com (1334 words)

	From an American Friend
		The following is a note I sent in response to a "quote" a dear friend sent me.
		Please note that my friend is a typical, un-informed American.
		I would hate for those people to be any of my friends or family here in the USA.
	www.netanyahu.org /fromamfrien.html (785 words)

	American Friend Finder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		I have - in conjunction with friends - come up with a list of at least five places I might meet such a person (e.g.
		I have told at least ten friends the kind of partner and relationship I am seeking, and that I would love to be introduced to potential partners, and invited to a lot of parties!
		I ask out at least two people per week (and have found a way that works for me and is not too scary).
	www.friendfindersite.com /friendfinder/american-friend-finder.html (696 words)

	Der Amerikanische Freund (1977) (aka The American Friend)
		A convoluted and cloudy murder mystery, The American Friend succeeds because of, and in spite of, its myriad ambiguities.
		In Paris, the american doctor performs a series of painful medical tests, which result in a pessimistic diagnosis (these are faked by Raoul, of course).
		Saturated with memorable visuals and lush colours, The American Friend constructs a world within which the characters reside rather than vice versa.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/American_Friend.html (676 words)

	Salon \| Our American friend
		In the public mind, the notions of these two genial, optimistic all-American Everymen were hard to dislodge, and the relationship between the two of them hard to disentangle.
		A lot of effort went into the cultivation of their consoling images, but only a little thought is required to "deconstruct" them.
		His presidency was a showbiz exercise, made of good lines borrowed from other people's movies.
	archive.salon.com /july97/stewart970711.html (784 words)

	American Friends Service Committee - Quaker values in action
		Congressional hearings on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) are being held this week.
		You can support the worthwhile and life-serving programs of the AFSC, while honoring your relatives and friends at the same time.
		Tell Congress that the pro-peace majority wants them to stop the deaths and suffering in Iraq by stopping the dollars that are funding the war.
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	channel4.com/film - The American Friend
		Another of Wenders' potent comments on the Americanisation of Europe, this tells of a dying man (Ganz) who unwillingly takes a job as a hit-man lined up for him by the mysterious Ripley (Hopper in the title role) in order to have money to leave to his widow.
		Too much metaphysical significance is loaded on to the story, and Müller's flashy colour cinematography works against it, but a nightmare world of deceit and double-dealing is created.
		The film led to Wenders' American friend Coppola's invitation to the German director to make the ill-fated Hammett at his Zoetrope studios.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=100393 (217 words)

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		Despite his illness, the happily married Jonathan does his best to live each day to the fullest with his wife and child.
		But when Tom Ripley, a cunning American gangster, learns of Jonathan's sickness, he convinces the dying man--deeply concerned about his family's financial future--to work as a hit man for a big payoff.
		This is a sensitive, film-noirish tribute to the American gangster film by the German Wenders, which is based on the novel RIPLEY'S GAME by Patricia Highsmith.
	www.deepdiscountdvd.com /dvd.cfm?itemID=ABD012028 (111 words)

	Monsters At Play: The American Friend Review
		But for my coin, it's THE AMERICAN FRIEND - recently issued as part of Anchor Bay's Wim Wenders collection - that lingers in the mind as the richest, darkest and classiest cinematic take on this complex character.
		This time, none other than Dennis Hopper plays Ripley, with a shaky intensity that reveals more than a little of the wild man Hopper had become at this point in his career.
		But this job goes completely sour, and leads the two men into a violent face- off with their understandably pissed-off target, a nameless American mobster, played without dialogue by crotchety, cigar-chomping cult director Sam Fuller.
	www.monstersatplay.com /review/dvd/a/americanfriend.php (996 words)

	Amazon.com: The American Friend (1977) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Despite the casting of a well-known (some would say, "infamous") American actor in the form of Dennis Hopper, Wim Wenders' take on the very American "film noir" style in "The American Friend" was every bit a fit with the work that came before and after.
		"The American Friend" draws the viewer into its web with subtle twists, a captivating atmosphere and excellent performances by Dennis Hopper as the mysterious Ripley and Bruno Ganz (later to star in Wenders' "Wings of Desire") as the ordinary man who gets caught up in Ripley's web.
		With its exceptionally careful pacing, the film is certainly not for everyone.
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	Movie Archives: The American Friend \| www.sdreader.com
		On one level, it's a withering critique of the male camaraderie ethic (with friends like this, who needs enemies?).
		On another, it's a conventional underworld adventure refreshingly infused with road-movie restlessness and aimlessness (it has three ingeniously designed and agonizingly drawn-out action sequences, but outside of those, it wanders the bleak territory between Weltschmerz and despair).
		Dennis Hopper, in a weather-beaten Stetson, is the psychopathic American cowboy (a too intellectualized character), and Bruno Ganz (anomie personified) is the humble Hamburg picture framer whom Hopper lassoes into moonlighting as a paid assassin.
	www.sdreader.com /php/mvdisplay.php?&id=AMERFRIE (248 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : The American Friend : Review
		eponymous American, currently a middleman selling the work of American painter Derwatt (Nicholas Ray), who has feigned his own death to increase the value of his paintings.
		While auctioning this work in Berlin, he meets art restorer Jonathan Zimmerman (Bruno Ganz), who he learns is suffering from an incurable blood disease.
		When a shady friend (Gerard Blain) requires Ripley to find a "clean" non-professional to do a contract hit in order to pay off a debt, even he is reluctant.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/1159/review.jhtml (168 words)

	MedlinePlus: Bereavement
		Funerals and Memorials: A Part of Recovery (American Psychiatric Association)
		When a Co-Worker Is Grieving the Death of a Child (Compassionate Friends)
		When an Employee is Grieving the Death of a Child (Compassionate Friends)
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	Wim Wenders, West German director, American Friend, Hammett August 14 in History
		Wim Wenders, West German director, American Friend, Hammett August 14 in History
		Wim Wenders, West German director, American Friend, Hammett
		One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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	goatdog's movies - The American Friend, 1977
		Master framer Bruno Ganz finds out that he is dying of an incurable blood disorder.
		Everyone else finds out too, including French ruffian Gerard Blain and American expatriate art-smuggler Hopper.
		Hopper, as the infamous Tom Ripley from Patricia Highsmith's series of novels, decides that Ganz would be the perfect hitman; since he's going to die anyway, perhaps he would like to leave his family some quick money.
	goatdog.com /moviePage.php?movieID=541 (354 words)

	USCCB Reviews - The American Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The American Friend -- Murky psychologica1 thriller in which a shadowy American (Dennis Hopper) is asked by a French gangster to murder an American criminal but winds up getting a German to do the job instead.
		A1though German director Wim Wenders is sensitive to the cultural milieu of his characters and there is some tension in certain scenes, the narrative fails to generate suspense and ultimate1y becomes trite and dull.
		For a full review of recent films, check your local Catholic diocesan newspaper.
	www.nccbuscc.org /movies/a/theamericanfriend.htm (224 words)

	american friend - review at videovista.net
		The American Friend is based, fairly loosely, on Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game (just remade under its original title by Liliana Cavani, starring John Malkovich, and playing in British cinemas as I write this).
		The American Friend is a slow-burner, but it does build up to some well-crafted action scenes, no doubt influenced by Fuller.
		Also, the fact that most of the dialogue is in English, helped The American Friend pick up a considerable cult following, especially in the US.
	www.videovista.net /reviews/june03/american.html (373 words)

	The American Friend
		Afterwards, invite your friends to do the same.
		With this week's DVD release of Cronicas, director Sebastian Cordero talks with RT about what inspired the film and how it got off the ground.
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