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Sep 9, 2011 · THE films of the German director Tom Tykwer make a point of never standing still. His best-known characters — the sidewalk-pounding heroine of “Run Lola Run,” the globe-trotting Interpol agent...
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Feb 2, 2017 · Tykwer’s film may have seemed sui generis, but it reflected its time and cinematic influences to anyone who was paying attention. Let’s take a look at its influences and what came after.
May 31, 2024 · As she dashed forth, writer-director Tom Tykwer underscored her mission with hard-charging techno music, dizzying montages of background characters filling in the scenery of everyday street life,...
Sep 16, 2011 · On the day before his film’s New York release, and the day before he started shooting his most ambitious effort yet, an adaptation of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas with the Wachowski brothers, Tykwer spoke to Slant from Glasgow about 3. 3 opens with a monologue about “harmony, friction, and symmetry.” These themes/ideas represent the ...
Jun 4, 2024 · AP: Were you surprised that it caught on like it did? TYKWER: You have to remember it was a small, super independently financed film. It got lots of head-scratching from those people who brought money in, like “it starts three times, that doesn’t make a movie.”
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Over time, Tykwer figured out who the woman was — Lola, played in the movie by then-newcomer Franka Potente — and why she was running: The film follows its titular heroine as she sprints across Berlin while trying to come up with enough money to stop her boyfriend, small-time gangster Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), from going through with an ill ...
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Jun 25, 2001 · “ Run Lola Run ” launched the international careers of director Tom Tykwer and actress Franka Potente, made flame red hair a European craze, and even caused the German Film Awards to change their...
