Sony Pictures Classics is reissuing the 1999 German cult thriller Run Lola Run for its 25th anniversary on June 7.
The re-release will feature a new Dcp from the 4K restoration, created in collaboration with the filmmakers.
Written and directed by Tom Tykwer, Run Lola Run starred Franka Potente Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Joachim Król, and Nina Petri, and served as an international breakthrough for the filmmaker and lead actress.
The iconoclastic, three-ending pic minted $7M stateside, becoming one of the highest grossing foreign-language films ever released domestically at that time, and over $22M worldwide. Run Lola Run played the Toronto International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival, winning the latter’s Audience Award. The pic won seven German Film Awards and received a BAFTA nomination for Best Film not in the English Language.
In the film, Lola (Franka Potente) answers a call from her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), a small-time courier for a big-time gangster.
The re-release will feature a new Dcp from the 4K restoration, created in collaboration with the filmmakers.
Written and directed by Tom Tykwer, Run Lola Run starred Franka Potente Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Joachim Król, and Nina Petri, and served as an international breakthrough for the filmmaker and lead actress.
The iconoclastic, three-ending pic minted $7M stateside, becoming one of the highest grossing foreign-language films ever released domestically at that time, and over $22M worldwide. Run Lola Run played the Toronto International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival, winning the latter’s Audience Award. The pic won seven German Film Awards and received a BAFTA nomination for Best Film not in the English Language.
In the film, Lola (Franka Potente) answers a call from her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), a small-time courier for a big-time gangster.
- 4/19/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) will re-release a 4K restored version of the 1999 German thriller Run Lola Run, which was a breakout for director Tom Tykwer and star Franka Potente.
The film will open on June 7, 25 years after it initially opened and went on to gross more than $7m in North America to become at the time one of the highest grossing foreign-language films ever released. SPC said it earned more than $22m worldwide.
Run Lola Run is told in three variations with three endings, and follows the titular character as she races across town encountering all manner of characters to...
The film will open on June 7, 25 years after it initially opened and went on to gross more than $7m in North America to become at the time one of the highest grossing foreign-language films ever released. SPC said it earned more than $22m worldwide.
Run Lola Run is told in three variations with three endings, and follows the titular character as she races across town encountering all manner of characters to...
- 4/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
Sony Pictures Classics will re-release a 4K restored version of the 1999 German thriller Run Lola Run, which was a breakout for director Tom Tykwer and star Franka Potente.
The film will open on June 7, 25 years after it initially opened and went on to gross more than $7m in North America to become at the time one of the highest grossing foreign-language films ever released. It earned more than $22m internationally.
Run Lola Run is told in three variations with three endings, and follows the titular character as she races across town encountering all manner of characters to get a sum...
The film will open on June 7, 25 years after it initially opened and went on to gross more than $7m in North America to become at the time one of the highest grossing foreign-language films ever released. It earned more than $22m internationally.
Run Lola Run is told in three variations with three endings, and follows the titular character as she races across town encountering all manner of characters to get a sum...
- 4/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
Lola better get some new sneakers.
Sony Pictures Classics has announced it will re-release Tom Tykwer’s 1999 German action classic Run Lola Run, in a new 4K restored version, in U.S. cinemas this summer, timed to the 25th anniversary of the movie’s original domestic bow.
Franka Potente stars as the titular athletic Lola in the film, racing to find 100,000 deutsche marks in time to rescue her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) who is in deep with a local gangster. Every choice Lola makes, big or small, changes her ultimate fate. The film is told three times, with three separate endings, an approach that recalls video game aesthetics. Herbert Knaup, Joachim Król and Nina Petri co-star.
Run Lola Run was a sensation when it was first released and grossed more than $7 million in the United States and Canada for SPC, becoming one of the highest-grossing non-English-language films ever at that time.
Sony Pictures Classics has announced it will re-release Tom Tykwer’s 1999 German action classic Run Lola Run, in a new 4K restored version, in U.S. cinemas this summer, timed to the 25th anniversary of the movie’s original domestic bow.
Franka Potente stars as the titular athletic Lola in the film, racing to find 100,000 deutsche marks in time to rescue her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) who is in deep with a local gangster. Every choice Lola makes, big or small, changes her ultimate fate. The film is told three times, with three separate endings, an approach that recalls video game aesthetics. Herbert Knaup, Joachim Król and Nina Petri co-star.
Run Lola Run was a sensation when it was first released and grossed more than $7 million in the United States and Canada for SPC, becoming one of the highest-grossing non-English-language films ever at that time.
- 4/19/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Prolific German director Jo Baier has officially signed on to write and direct the thriller “Life Through a Dead Man’s Eyes,” about an aging Nazi war criminal on the run from prosecution.
The film, produced by Berlin-based Films In Motion in co-production with Banijay’s Nl Film in Amsterdam, tells the haunting story of a former Nazi SS death camp guard who tries to evade prosecution by U.S. authorities. In the face of death, he finds himself falling ever deeper into a nightmare that exceeds his worst fears.
“Life Through a Dead Man’s Eyes” is set to star Matthias Habich (“Narcissus and Goldmund”) as the former SS henchman and Herbert Knaup (“Sarah Kohr”) as the Nazi hunter on his trail. Also attached is Silke Bodenbender (“One Day We’ll Tell Each Other Everything”).
Speaking to Variety, Baier says the dark historical aspect of the tale in particular piqued his interest.
The film, produced by Berlin-based Films In Motion in co-production with Banijay’s Nl Film in Amsterdam, tells the haunting story of a former Nazi SS death camp guard who tries to evade prosecution by U.S. authorities. In the face of death, he finds himself falling ever deeper into a nightmare that exceeds his worst fears.
“Life Through a Dead Man’s Eyes” is set to star Matthias Habich (“Narcissus and Goldmund”) as the former SS henchman and Herbert Knaup (“Sarah Kohr”) as the Nazi hunter on his trail. Also attached is Silke Bodenbender (“One Day We’ll Tell Each Other Everything”).
Speaking to Variety, Baier says the dark historical aspect of the tale in particular piqued his interest.
- 5/15/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
German distributor Der Filmverleih in Stuttgart has boarded Berlin-based Films in Motion’s World War II trilogy penned by American writer J. Frank James.
The films, in various stages of development, include “The Face,” produced with Leipzig-based Departures Film and starring Ludwig Trepte (“Deutschland 86”). The story turns on a traumatized Jewish survivor and an army deserter posing as a priest who are bonded together into a friendship while reconstructing a bombed out church. Markus Imboden (“The Foster Boy”) is set to direct.
In “Life Through a Dead Man’s Eyes,” directed by veteran helmer Jo Baier and produced with Amsterdam-based Nl Film and Hupe Film in Cologne, a former SS concentration camp guard in danger of being apprehended for his brutal past faces horrors beyond his imagination. Herbert Knaup and Matthias Habich star in the haunting drama.
“Bones of the Wise Men,” currently in development, is set in the...
The films, in various stages of development, include “The Face,” produced with Leipzig-based Departures Film and starring Ludwig Trepte (“Deutschland 86”). The story turns on a traumatized Jewish survivor and an army deserter posing as a priest who are bonded together into a friendship while reconstructing a bombed out church. Markus Imboden (“The Foster Boy”) is set to direct.
In “Life Through a Dead Man’s Eyes,” directed by veteran helmer Jo Baier and produced with Amsterdam-based Nl Film and Hupe Film in Cologne, a former SS concentration camp guard in danger of being apprehended for his brutal past faces horrors beyond his imagination. Herbert Knaup and Matthias Habich star in the haunting drama.
“Bones of the Wise Men,” currently in development, is set in the...
- 6/30/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Amsterdam-based Nl Film and Hupe Film in Cologne have boarded Jo Baier’s upcoming Nazi war criminal horror thriller “Life Through a Dead Man’s Eyes.”
The companies join co-producers Films in Motion (Fim), the Berlin-based shingle run by American producer René Asch, and Angelika Mohr’s Morefilms in Munich, which is also handling world sales.
German thesps Herbert Knaup and Matthias Habich topline the supernatural thriller, which follows a former SS concentration camp guard, played by Habich, desperately trying to avoid capture by a Nazi hunter (Knaup). Seeking to avoid capture, the old Nazi assumes an unlikely identity and hides in the most improbable place.
Budgeted at €2.5 million ($2.7 million), “Life Through a Dead Man’s Eyes” is set to go into preproduction later this year.
The award-winning Baier (“Henry of Navarre”) will direct the German-Dutch co-production from a script by American screenwriter J. Frank James.
“We’re thankful for...
The companies join co-producers Films in Motion (Fim), the Berlin-based shingle run by American producer René Asch, and Angelika Mohr’s Morefilms in Munich, which is also handling world sales.
German thesps Herbert Knaup and Matthias Habich topline the supernatural thriller, which follows a former SS concentration camp guard, played by Habich, desperately trying to avoid capture by a Nazi hunter (Knaup). Seeking to avoid capture, the old Nazi assumes an unlikely identity and hides in the most improbable place.
Budgeted at €2.5 million ($2.7 million), “Life Through a Dead Man’s Eyes” is set to go into preproduction later this year.
The award-winning Baier (“Henry of Navarre”) will direct the German-Dutch co-production from a script by American screenwriter J. Frank James.
“We’re thankful for...
- 2/22/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Caroline Link’s wonderful, woefully obscure Best Foreign Film winner is an entertaining story of the perils of wartime emigration. It hits hard right now, with our own immigration crackdown underway. A Jewish family smartly escapes Nazi Germany at the 11th hour, only to find themselves imprisoned in detention camps by the British — who ironically consider them dangerous enemy aliens. The show is a glorious growing-up tale for a German tot transplanted to Kenya, and becomes an edgy romantic story when the mother repurposes her amorous needs to help rescue her family.
Nowhere in Africa
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber / Zeitgeist
20019 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 141 min. / Nirgendwo in Afrika / Street Date February 27, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 34.95
Starring Merab Ninidze, Juliane Köhler, Lea Kurka, Karoline Eckertz, Sidede Onyulo, Matthias Habich, Herbert Knaup
Cinematography Gernot Roll
Production Designer Susann Bieling, Uwe Szielasko
Film Editor Patricia Rommel
Original Music Niki Reiser, Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock
Written by Caroline...
Nowhere in Africa
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber / Zeitgeist
20019 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 141 min. / Nirgendwo in Afrika / Street Date February 27, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 34.95
Starring Merab Ninidze, Juliane Köhler, Lea Kurka, Karoline Eckertz, Sidede Onyulo, Matthias Habich, Herbert Knaup
Cinematography Gernot Roll
Production Designer Susann Bieling, Uwe Szielasko
Film Editor Patricia Rommel
Original Music Niki Reiser, Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock
Written by Caroline...
- 2/17/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Every year, the Efa People’s Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favorite film. When the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe’s greatest film stars, directors, actors and actresses, to attend the European Film Awards, the People’s Choice Award sheds a spotlight on the people films are made for: the audience. This year’s vote has started – vote now and win the chance to join winners and nominees for the awards ceremony in Malta!
Winners in the past have included films like Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, Roberto Benigni’s La Vita E Bella, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s AmÉLie, Fatih Akin’s Head-on, and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire.
From 1 September on, film fans can cast their vote on the official website: www.europeanfilmawards.euand win a trip to the 25th European Film Awards on Saturday, 1 December 2012, in Malta!
Nominated Are: The Artist directed by Michel Hazanavicius with Jean Dujardin,
Barbara directed by Christian Petzold with Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Christina Hecke
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel directed by John Madden, written by Ol Parker with Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, Dev Patel, Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith
Caesar Must Die (Cesare deve morire) directed by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, written by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, in collaboration with Fabio Cavalli with Giovanni Arcuri, Salvatore Striano, Cosimo Rega, Antonio Frasca, Fabio Cavalli
Come As You Are (Hasta la Vista) directed by da Geoffrey Enthoven, written by Pierre de Clercq, with Robrecht van den Thoren, Gilles de Schryver, Tom Audenaert, Isabelle de Hertogh
Headhunters (Hodejegerne) directed by Morten Tyldum, written by Lars Gudmestad & Ulf Ryberg with Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coter-Waldau, Synnøve Macody Lund, Eivind Sander I
N Darkness directed by Agnieszka Holland, written by David F. Shamoon with Robert Więckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader, Herbert Knaup
The Iron Lady directed by Phyllida Lloy, written by Abi Morgan with Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen directed by Lasse Hallstrom, written by Simon Beaufoy, based on the novel by Paul Torday with Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas, Amr Waked
Shame directed by Steve McQueen, written by Steve McQueen and Abi Morgan with Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy directed by Thomas Alfredson, written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan with Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Mark Strong, Tom Hardy, Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones, Stephen Graham, David Dencik, Ciaran Hinds, Simon McBurney, Kathy Burke, Svetlana Khodenchkova
Untouchable directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano with François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot, Clothilde Mollet
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The European Film Awards 2012 are presented by the European Film Academy e.V. and Efa Productions gGmbH with the support of the Maltese Ministry of Finance, Economy and Investment, the Malta Film Commission, Ffa German Federal Film Board, the German State Lottery Berlin, the German State Minister for Culture and the Media, the Media Programme of the EU, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Gls. Pascal Edelmann European Film Academy e.V. Head of Press & PR Kurfürstendamm 225 10719 Berlin Germany Tel. +49 30 887 16 70 Fax +49 30 887 16 777 visit us at www.europeanfilmawards.eu European Film Academy e.V. / Director: Marion Döring / registered at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg 14236 Nz...
Winners in the past have included films like Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, Roberto Benigni’s La Vita E Bella, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s AmÉLie, Fatih Akin’s Head-on, and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire.
From 1 September on, film fans can cast their vote on the official website: www.europeanfilmawards.euand win a trip to the 25th European Film Awards on Saturday, 1 December 2012, in Malta!
Nominated Are: The Artist directed by Michel Hazanavicius with Jean Dujardin,
Barbara directed by Christian Petzold with Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Christina Hecke
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel directed by John Madden, written by Ol Parker with Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, Dev Patel, Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith
Caesar Must Die (Cesare deve morire) directed by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, written by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, in collaboration with Fabio Cavalli with Giovanni Arcuri, Salvatore Striano, Cosimo Rega, Antonio Frasca, Fabio Cavalli
Come As You Are (Hasta la Vista) directed by da Geoffrey Enthoven, written by Pierre de Clercq, with Robrecht van den Thoren, Gilles de Schryver, Tom Audenaert, Isabelle de Hertogh
Headhunters (Hodejegerne) directed by Morten Tyldum, written by Lars Gudmestad & Ulf Ryberg with Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coter-Waldau, Synnøve Macody Lund, Eivind Sander I
N Darkness directed by Agnieszka Holland, written by David F. Shamoon with Robert Więckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader, Herbert Knaup
The Iron Lady directed by Phyllida Lloy, written by Abi Morgan with Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen directed by Lasse Hallstrom, written by Simon Beaufoy, based on the novel by Paul Torday with Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas, Amr Waked
Shame directed by Steve McQueen, written by Steve McQueen and Abi Morgan with Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy directed by Thomas Alfredson, written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan with Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Mark Strong, Tom Hardy, Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones, Stephen Graham, David Dencik, Ciaran Hinds, Simon McBurney, Kathy Burke, Svetlana Khodenchkova
Untouchable directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano with François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot, Clothilde Mollet
Our Media Partners: 7 meno dienos (Lithuania) * Arte * www.ciendecine.com (Spain) * www.cinemagia.ro (Romania) * Cinemania (Spain) * www.cineuropa.org * Diena (Latvia) * www.elokuvauutiset.fi (Finland) * www.film-demnaechst.ch (Switzerland) * De Filmkrant (the Netherlands) * www.filmski.net (Croatia) * www.filmski.rs (Serbia) * www.filmstarts.de (Germany) * Gragjanski (Fyr Macedonia) * Iftn (Ireland) * www.kinema.sk (Slovakia) * www.lovefilm.com * Nädal (Estonia) * La Rivista del Cinematografo (Italy) * www.stopklatka.pl (Poland) * Vikend (Slovenia) * Ernst & Young, one of the leading global professional services firms, continues to act as Official Tabulator, endorsing the voting procedures and confirming the winner. The 25th European Film Awards: Malta, 1 Dec 2012 Live on www.europeanfilmawards.eu
Patrons:centre Du Cinema Of The Federation Wallonia Brussels * Danish Film Institute * Eurimages * Film Fund Luxembourg * Flanders Audiovisual Fund (Vaf) * German Films * MacEdonian Film Fund * Mfg FilmfÖRderung Baden-wÜRttemberg * Ministry Of Education And Culture Of Cyprus (Cultural Services) * Netherlands Film Fund * Polish Film Institute * Ab Svensk Filmindustri * Swedish Film Institute * Swiss Films * Telewizja Polska S.A. (Tvp) *
The European Film Awards 2012 are presented by the European Film Academy e.V. and Efa Productions gGmbH with the support of the Maltese Ministry of Finance, Economy and Investment, the Malta Film Commission, Ffa German Federal Film Board, the German State Lottery Berlin, the German State Minister for Culture and the Media, the Media Programme of the EU, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Gls. Pascal Edelmann European Film Academy e.V. Head of Press & PR Kurfürstendamm 225 10719 Berlin Germany Tel. +49 30 887 16 70 Fax +49 30 887 16 777 visit us at www.europeanfilmawards.eu European Film Academy e.V. / Director: Marion Döring / registered at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg 14236 Nz...
- 10/12/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Chicago – There were countless foreign films in 2011 more deserving of an Oscar nod than Agnieszka Holland’s “In Darkness.” The film lacks the brutal edge, gut-wrenching tension and memorable characterizations that distinguished so many similar Holocaust-era dramas. Yet the lukewarm “been there, done that” reaction of many American critics has left me rather mystified.
This isn’t a great film, per se, but it is still a harrowing and compelling portrait of resilience in the face of evil. Best known for her fact-based exploration of Hitler youth, “Europa, Europa,” Holland is skilled at creating the sort of vividly atmospheric environment that seeps into a viewer’s bones. One of my favorite films as a child was Holland’s sublime 1993 adaptation of “The Secret Garden,” which viewed the gothic interiors and lush mazes through the eyes of bewitched children.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
With “In Darkness,” Holland burrows beneath the chaotic streets of a Polish city,...
This isn’t a great film, per se, but it is still a harrowing and compelling portrait of resilience in the face of evil. Best known for her fact-based exploration of Hitler youth, “Europa, Europa,” Holland is skilled at creating the sort of vividly atmospheric environment that seeps into a viewer’s bones. One of my favorite films as a child was Holland’s sublime 1993 adaptation of “The Secret Garden,” which viewed the gothic interiors and lush mazes through the eyes of bewitched children.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
With “In Darkness,” Holland burrows beneath the chaotic streets of a Polish city,...
- 6/28/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
This is the Pure Movies review of In Darkness, directed by Agnieszka Holland and starring Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader, Herbert Knaup and Marcin Bosak. Written by Michael Holder for @puremovies. Brutal, dank, disturbing, devastating, sickening and also pretty scary – In Darkness is a film about the Holocaust, yes, but not quite as expected. It is based on Robert Marshall’s book In the Sewers of Lvov, which chronicles the true story of Polish sewer worker Leopold Socha, who risks execution to hide a group of Jews for 14 months until the war ends. There are good performances all round as petty thief Socha (Robert Wieckiewics) initially agrees to help Mundek (Benno Fürmann) and his fellow Jewish companions after their escape from the ghetto in exchange for a daily payment. But as the Jews’ money inevitably runs out, Socha becomes less interested in the business arrangement and sacrifices...
- 3/16/2012
- by Michael Holder
- Pure Movies
In Darkness was recently nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars this past weekend for Best Foreign Language Film which is testament to it’s awesomeness! The movie stars Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader, Herbert Knaup, Marcin Bosak and is directed by Agnieszka Holland.
Have a watch of the clip embedded below. It shows the lengths in which the characters go to to stay alive. I’ve also placed the trailer below.
In Darkness is released in UK cinemas 16th March.
One day Leopold encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto and agrees to hide them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers. But what starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement soon turns into something very unexpected, as the unlikely alliance between Leopold and the Jews seeps deeper into his conscience and they form an incredibly close bond.
Have a watch of the clip embedded below. It shows the lengths in which the characters go to to stay alive. I’ve also placed the trailer below.
In Darkness is released in UK cinemas 16th March.
One day Leopold encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto and agrees to hide them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers. But what starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement soon turns into something very unexpected, as the unlikely alliance between Leopold and the Jews seeps deeper into his conscience and they form an incredibly close bond.
- 3/2/2012
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Chicago – The subject of the Holocaust has become an entire film genre onto it’s own, embracing many different styles. The latest Holocaust film, “In Darkness,” feels like a disaster movie, and iconic Polish director Agnieszka Holland has steered it to a Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Based on a true story, it begins with the self-serving nature of human beings and evolves into their better angels. In the harboring of Polish Jews within a wretched sewer system, it also becomes emblematic of the whole evil of the Holocaust, the banishment of living human beings into the darkness of a hole in the earth, constituting a form of hell. Although many tales of these events have made into narrative films, to think about the reality of what actually happened is almost too much to fathom. This realization of hell is another bitter reminder of what humanity has had to consume.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Based on a true story, it begins with the self-serving nature of human beings and evolves into their better angels. In the harboring of Polish Jews within a wretched sewer system, it also becomes emblematic of the whole evil of the Holocaust, the banishment of living human beings into the darkness of a hole in the earth, constituting a form of hell. Although many tales of these events have made into narrative films, to think about the reality of what actually happened is almost too much to fathom. This realization of hell is another bitter reminder of what humanity has had to consume.
- 2/17/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – One of the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film at the upcoming Academy Awards is the Polish entry, “In Darkness.” The film is directed by filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, who had the same nomination honor in 1985 (”Angry Harvest”) and for Adapted Screenplay in 1992 (”Europa, Europa”).
Hailed as one of Poland’s most prominent contributors to their cinema history, Holland has had a career of filmmaking that has been provocative, and highly political. She was born in Warsaw right after World War II, and her Jewish grandparents were killed in the ghetto during that conflict. She made her first film in 1970, “Jesus Christ’s Sins,” while a student the Film and TV School of the Performing Arts in Prague, before embarking on a notable career in the Polish Film industry.
The Light Above: Milla Bankowicz (Krystyna) and Robert Wieckiewicz (Leopold) for “In Darkness’
Photo credit: Sony Pictures Classics
Her first major...
Hailed as one of Poland’s most prominent contributors to their cinema history, Holland has had a career of filmmaking that has been provocative, and highly political. She was born in Warsaw right after World War II, and her Jewish grandparents were killed in the ghetto during that conflict. She made her first film in 1970, “Jesus Christ’s Sins,” while a student the Film and TV School of the Performing Arts in Prague, before embarking on a notable career in the Polish Film industry.
The Light Above: Milla Bankowicz (Krystyna) and Robert Wieckiewicz (Leopold) for “In Darkness’
Photo credit: Sony Pictures Classics
Her first major...
- 2/14/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Title: In Darkness Directed By: Agnieszka Holland Written By: Robert Marshall (book), David F. Shamoon (screenplay) Cast: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Furmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader, Herbert Knaup, Kinga Preis Screened at: Sony, NYC, 10/24/11 Opens: December 9, 2011 Human life in sewers has been in the news. Not so long ago, Saddam Hussein was found in a make-shift ditch with a growth of beard that he kept up through his trial and execution. In October of this year, Libyan dictator Muamar Gadhafi was flushed out of a drainpipe and summarily executed. But not all inhabitants of sewers are rats like them. Agnieszka Holland, a Warsaw-born, Prague-educated director best known in...
- 10/25/2011
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Popular Monday Night Double-Feature Block to Present Full Month of Horror Madness
Culver City, Calif., Sept. 26, 2011 - Sony Movie Channel is celebrating Halloween throughout the entire month of October as its weekly double-feature block Mandays takes a stab as Killer Mandays.
“Sony Movie Channel is thrilled to bring such high quality horror films to our viewers during the month of October,” said Superna Kalle. “With such prestigious filmmakers as John Carpenter and Tsui Hark programmed for Killer Mandays, our audience will be screaming for more.”
The thrills will continue online when from Monday, October 3rd - Thursday, November 3rd, sonymoviechannel.com will launch a “Killer Mandays Costume Contest,” where people can submit a photograph of their best horror costume. The winner, voted on by the public, will win a Sony Blu-ray Player and a “Resident Evil” Blu-ray collection. Additional prizing to ten second place winners will include a “Resident Evil” Blu-ray collection.
Culver City, Calif., Sept. 26, 2011 - Sony Movie Channel is celebrating Halloween throughout the entire month of October as its weekly double-feature block Mandays takes a stab as Killer Mandays.
“Sony Movie Channel is thrilled to bring such high quality horror films to our viewers during the month of October,” said Superna Kalle. “With such prestigious filmmakers as John Carpenter and Tsui Hark programmed for Killer Mandays, our audience will be screaming for more.”
The thrills will continue online when from Monday, October 3rd - Thursday, November 3rd, sonymoviechannel.com will launch a “Killer Mandays Costume Contest,” where people can submit a photograph of their best horror costume. The winner, voted on by the public, will win a Sony Blu-ray Player and a “Resident Evil” Blu-ray collection. Additional prizing to ten second place winners will include a “Resident Evil” Blu-ray collection.
- 9/26/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sony Pictures Classics as acquired the Us distribution rights to the new Agnieszka Holland drama called, In Darkness, which is based on a true story that takes place in 1943 in the the Polish town of Lvov, which was occupied by the Nazis. One day a selfish thief and burglar by the name of Leopold Socha encounters a group of Jewish refugees – and hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers. At first Socha is only interested lucrative business, but the whole thing reaches more and more Socha’s conscience. The Polish small-time crook makes up his mind and finally risks his own life for the refugees...
Sounds like a great story, the full details of the film can be found in the official press release below.
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all Us rights to Academy Award® nominee Agnieszka Holland's In...
Sounds like a great story, the full details of the film can be found in the official press release below.
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all Us rights to Academy Award® nominee Agnieszka Holland's In...
- 2/15/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all U.S. rights to Academy Award nominee Agnieszka Holland’s “In Darkness” from sales agent Beta Cinema. The film, based on the true story “In the Sewers of lvov” by Robert Marshall, is written by David F. Shamoon and stars Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Maria Schrader and Herbert Knaup. “In Darkness” is produced by The Film Works, Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv and Zebra Films.
“In Darkness” is set in the Polish town of Lvov is occupied by the Nazis. Poverty grows. One day the selfish thief and burglar Leopold Socha encounters a group of Jewish refugees, and hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers. At first only interested in making money, the arrangement reaches Socha’s conscience. The small-time crook ultimately decides to risk his own life for the refugees.
The acquisition of “In Darkness” continues a longstanding relationship between...
“In Darkness” is set in the Polish town of Lvov is occupied by the Nazis. Poverty grows. One day the selfish thief and burglar Leopold Socha encounters a group of Jewish refugees, and hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers. At first only interested in making money, the arrangement reaches Socha’s conscience. The small-time crook ultimately decides to risk his own life for the refugees.
The acquisition of “In Darkness” continues a longstanding relationship between...
- 2/15/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all U.S. rights to Academy Award nominee Agnieszka Holland’s “In Darkness” from sales agent Beta Cinema. The film, based on the true story “In the Sewers of lvov” by Robert Marshall, is written by David F. Shamoon and stars Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Maria Schrader and Herbert Knaup. “In Darkness” is produced by The Film Works, Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv and Zebra Films.
“In Darkness” is set in the Polish town of Lvov is occupied by the Nazis. Poverty grows. One day the selfish thief and burglar Leopold Socha encounters a group of Jewish refugees, and hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers. At first only interested in making money, the arrangement reaches Socha’s conscience. The small-time crook ultimately decides to risk his own life for the refugees.
The acquisition of “In Darkness” continues a longstanding relationship between...
“In Darkness” is set in the Polish town of Lvov is occupied by the Nazis. Poverty grows. One day the selfish thief and burglar Leopold Socha encounters a group of Jewish refugees, and hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers. At first only interested in making money, the arrangement reaches Socha’s conscience. The small-time crook ultimately decides to risk his own life for the refugees.
The acquisition of “In Darkness” continues a longstanding relationship between...
- 2/15/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired U.S. rights to "In Darkness" from sales agent Beta Cinema, the studio announced on Tuesday. The film centers on a Polish thief who hides a group of Jewish refugees in Nazi occupied Poland. Agnieszka Holland ("Olivier, Olivier") directs the film, which is based on a true story. "In Darkness" was written by David F. Shamoon and stars Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Maria Schrader and Herbert Knaup. It is produced by The Film Works, Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv and Zebra Films. Related Articles: ...
- 2/15/2011
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
New York (February 15, 2011) – Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all Us rights to Academy Award® nominee Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness from sales agent Beta Cinema. The film, based on the true story “In the Sewers of lvov” by Robert Marshall, is written by David F. Shamoon and stars Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann (North Face, Merry Christmas), Maria Schrader (Aimee & Jaguar) and Herbert Knaup (Run Lola Run, The Lives Of Others). In Darkness is produced by The Film Works, Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv and Zebra Films. In In Darkness, it is 1943, the Polish town of Lvov is occupied by the Nazis. Poverty grows. One day the selfish thief and burglar Leopold Socha encounters a group of Jewish refugees – and hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers. At first only interested in lucrative business the whole thing reaches more and more Socha’s conscience.
- 2/15/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all Us rights to Academy Award® nominee Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness from sales agent Beta Cinema. The film, based on the true story "In the Sewers of lvov" by Robert Marshall, is written by David F. Shamoon and stars Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann ( North Face , Merry Christmas ), Maria Schrader ( Aimee & Jaguar ) and Herbert Knaup ( Run Lola Run , The Lives of Others ). In Darkness is produced by The Film Works, Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv and Zebra Films. In In Darkness , it is 1943, the Polish town of Lvov is occupied by the Nazis. Poverty grows. One day the selfish thief and burglar Leopold Socha encounters a group of Jewish refugees . and hides them for money in the labyrinth of the...
- 2/15/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Edgar Wright returns to the New Beverly grindhouse in Los Angeles with his resume of flicks along with a boatload of his favorites. This is the second time the fan favorite filmmaker has taken over the retro theater where he will be present for Q & A’s and a raucous good time.
january 14, 15 The Wright Stuff II – Triple Feature! All Tickets $10
Shaun Of The Dead Fri / Sat: 7:30 2004, UK / France / USA, 99 minutes Edgar Wright will appear In Person, schedule permitting, Friday & Saturday to discuss! directed by Edgar Wright; written by Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright; starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran Trailer
Hot Fuzz Fri / Sat: 9:30 2007, UK / France / USA, 121 minutes directed by Edgar Wright; written by Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright; starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent, Paddy Considine, Bill Nighy
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Fri / Sat: 11:59pm (Midnight) 2009, USA / UK / Canada,...
january 14, 15 The Wright Stuff II – Triple Feature! All Tickets $10
Shaun Of The Dead Fri / Sat: 7:30 2004, UK / France / USA, 99 minutes Edgar Wright will appear In Person, schedule permitting, Friday & Saturday to discuss! directed by Edgar Wright; written by Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright; starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran Trailer
Hot Fuzz Fri / Sat: 9:30 2007, UK / France / USA, 121 minutes directed by Edgar Wright; written by Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright; starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent, Paddy Considine, Bill Nighy
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Fri / Sat: 11:59pm (Midnight) 2009, USA / UK / Canada,...
- 1/3/2011
- by Jason Bene
- Killer Films
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151. Run Lola Run (1998. Tom Tykwer. Franka Potente. Moritz Bleibtreu. Herbert Knaup) Nominated Best Non-English Film - BAFTA. Won Best Foreign Film - Independent Spirit Awards. Won Audience Award World Cinema - Sundance Film Festival. 152. Rushmore (1998. Wes Anderson. Jason Schwartzman. Bill Murray. Olivia Williams. Brian Cox. Luke Wilson) Nominated Best Supporting Actor (Murray) - Golden Globes. Won Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Murray) - Independent Spirit Awards. Won Best Supporting Actor - National Society of Continue reading...
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151. Run Lola Run (1998. Tom Tykwer. Franka Potente. Moritz Bleibtreu. Herbert Knaup) Nominated Best Non-English Film - BAFTA. Won Best Foreign Film - Independent Spirit Awards. Won Audience Award World Cinema - Sundance Film Festival. 152. Rushmore (1998. Wes Anderson. Jason Schwartzman. Bill Murray. Olivia Williams. Brian Cox. Luke Wilson) Nominated Best Supporting Actor (Murray) - Golden Globes. Won Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Murray) - Independent Spirit Awards. Won Best Supporting Actor - National Society of Continue reading...
- 11/15/2008
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
"Marlene" is irresistible -- which does not mean the same thing as being a good movie. But then everything connected to its dazzling subject, the late Marlene Dietrich, has always come tinged with ambiguity and contradictions. Was Dietrich one of the 20th century's greatest stars? Or was she a creature manufactured with her willing but nearly unconscious participation?
"Marlene" is one of those grand, silly celebrity biopics with glamorous decadence, coy suggestions of scandal and a parade of waxworks historical figures. With a budget of DM17.8 million ($9.4 million), "Marlene" claims to be the most expensive Film Production in postwar Germany. But it has not been designed for trans-Atlantic travel.
Shot entirely in German -- ludicrously so in Hollywood sections where everyone from Latino servants to Gary Cooper speaks German -- "Marlene" will have little theatrical impact domestically beyond festival appearances such as the Hollywood Film Festival, where it made its U.S. debut last week. Its best bet is a pay TV slot.
Dietrich's legend rests largely on her last German film, "The Blue Angel" (1930), and her first six American films made at Paramount, all directed by Josef von Sternberg -- her mentor, Svengali and, for many, creator. Those deliciously artificial romances were cinematic essays in tormented love and frustrated passions. At their center was this new icon of sadomasochistic eroticism, who both celebrated and ridiculed her sexuality.
She made films before and since, but it was this image and look, taught to her by von Sternberg, that Dietrich spent her career re-creating.
"Marlene" is blessed with an actress, Katja Flint, who embodies a good deal of the glamour, mischievousness and consuming ambitions of the diva. Flint moves beyond impersonation to a true acting performance in which she creates not Marlene Dietrich but "Marlene Dietrich" -- a person quite comfortable with herself and her highly unorthodox life, a person who has traded happiness for fame and is in no way sorry for making the Faustian bargain.
What is missing is Dietrich's wit. For while the performer took her work seriously, she didn't always take herself seriously.
Based on a biography by her daughter, Maria Riva, "Marlene" covers the period from 1929 to the end of World War II. Key figures include her husband, Rudolf Sieber (Herbert Knaup), whom she seldom saw but never divorced; von Sternberg (Hans-Werner Meyer); young Maria (Josefina Vilsmaier, then others); her nanny and her dad's lover, Tamara (Christiane Paul); and a fictional figure, a Prussian officer named Carl (Heino Ferch), supposedly the great love of Dietrich's life. The latter character is not only superfluous but unfortunate in that it denies Dietrich's fierce independence from such emotional entanglements.
The movie's major failing comes in its depiction of the Dietrich/
von Sternberg relationship. Meyer struts and preens but projects none of the mad-dog charisma and arrogance of the great director. Dietrich's open marriage to Sieber is fleshed out more fully, though you never see how this arrangement affects the daughter.
Dietrich is depicted as addicted to sex, cigarettes, diets, sleeping pills and booze. She is both a hard-working hausfrau and a glamorous bisexual adored by many but understood by few.
If the film is never quite able to figure out whom the real Marlene Dietrich is, well, join the club. Nobody ever did.
MARLENE
Amberlon Pictures
A TPI Trebitsch Production International/Perathon Film production
Producers: Katharina Trebitsch, Jutta Lieck-Klenke, Joseph Vilsmaier
Director/director of photography: Joseph Vilsmaier
Screenwriter: Christian Pfannenschmidt
Executive producer: Peter Sterr
Based on "My Mother Marlene" by: Maria Riva
Production designer: Rolf Zehetbauer
Music: Harald Kloser
Costume designers: Ute Hofinger, Lisy Christl, Brian Rennie
Editors: Barbara Hennings, Gabi Krober
Color/stereo
Cast:
Marlene Dietrich: Katja Flint
Rudolf Sieber: Herbert Knaup
Carl Seidlitz: Heino Ferch
Josef von Sternberg: Hans-Werner Meyer
Tamara Matul: Christiane Paul
Charlotte Seidlitz: Suzanne von Borsody
Running time -- 133 minutes
No MPAA rating...
"Marlene" is one of those grand, silly celebrity biopics with glamorous decadence, coy suggestions of scandal and a parade of waxworks historical figures. With a budget of DM17.8 million ($9.4 million), "Marlene" claims to be the most expensive Film Production in postwar Germany. But it has not been designed for trans-Atlantic travel.
Shot entirely in German -- ludicrously so in Hollywood sections where everyone from Latino servants to Gary Cooper speaks German -- "Marlene" will have little theatrical impact domestically beyond festival appearances such as the Hollywood Film Festival, where it made its U.S. debut last week. Its best bet is a pay TV slot.
Dietrich's legend rests largely on her last German film, "The Blue Angel" (1930), and her first six American films made at Paramount, all directed by Josef von Sternberg -- her mentor, Svengali and, for many, creator. Those deliciously artificial romances were cinematic essays in tormented love and frustrated passions. At their center was this new icon of sadomasochistic eroticism, who both celebrated and ridiculed her sexuality.
She made films before and since, but it was this image and look, taught to her by von Sternberg, that Dietrich spent her career re-creating.
"Marlene" is blessed with an actress, Katja Flint, who embodies a good deal of the glamour, mischievousness and consuming ambitions of the diva. Flint moves beyond impersonation to a true acting performance in which she creates not Marlene Dietrich but "Marlene Dietrich" -- a person quite comfortable with herself and her highly unorthodox life, a person who has traded happiness for fame and is in no way sorry for making the Faustian bargain.
What is missing is Dietrich's wit. For while the performer took her work seriously, she didn't always take herself seriously.
Based on a biography by her daughter, Maria Riva, "Marlene" covers the period from 1929 to the end of World War II. Key figures include her husband, Rudolf Sieber (Herbert Knaup), whom she seldom saw but never divorced; von Sternberg (Hans-Werner Meyer); young Maria (Josefina Vilsmaier, then others); her nanny and her dad's lover, Tamara (Christiane Paul); and a fictional figure, a Prussian officer named Carl (Heino Ferch), supposedly the great love of Dietrich's life. The latter character is not only superfluous but unfortunate in that it denies Dietrich's fierce independence from such emotional entanglements.
The movie's major failing comes in its depiction of the Dietrich/
von Sternberg relationship. Meyer struts and preens but projects none of the mad-dog charisma and arrogance of the great director. Dietrich's open marriage to Sieber is fleshed out more fully, though you never see how this arrangement affects the daughter.
Dietrich is depicted as addicted to sex, cigarettes, diets, sleeping pills and booze. She is both a hard-working hausfrau and a glamorous bisexual adored by many but understood by few.
If the film is never quite able to figure out whom the real Marlene Dietrich is, well, join the club. Nobody ever did.
MARLENE
Amberlon Pictures
A TPI Trebitsch Production International/Perathon Film production
Producers: Katharina Trebitsch, Jutta Lieck-Klenke, Joseph Vilsmaier
Director/director of photography: Joseph Vilsmaier
Screenwriter: Christian Pfannenschmidt
Executive producer: Peter Sterr
Based on "My Mother Marlene" by: Maria Riva
Production designer: Rolf Zehetbauer
Music: Harald Kloser
Costume designers: Ute Hofinger, Lisy Christl, Brian Rennie
Editors: Barbara Hennings, Gabi Krober
Color/stereo
Cast:
Marlene Dietrich: Katja Flint
Rudolf Sieber: Herbert Knaup
Carl Seidlitz: Heino Ferch
Josef von Sternberg: Hans-Werner Meyer
Tamara Matul: Christiane Paul
Charlotte Seidlitz: Suzanne von Borsody
Running time -- 133 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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