Tom Tykwer
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Birgit Minichmayr...international and English language productions. Among the directors she worked with were Istvan Szabo, Gotz Spielmann, Tom Tykwer, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Robert Dornhelm, and Doris Dorrie. At the 59th Berlin International Film Festival 2009... In this article: Birgit Minichmayr, William Shakespeare, Vienna, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida, Silver Bear for Best Actress, Declan Donnellan, Berlin International Film Festival, Gotz Spielmann, and Arthur Schnitzler |
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boston.com - Latest movie news | February 12, 2009
Friday the 13th looks to top long weekend
...as $20 million domestically. Executives see a chance for outsized foreign grosses for the picture, directed by German filmmaker Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola Run"), because of its global-banking-conspiracy theme. Holdover pictures, including...
In this article: Friday the 13th, Warners, He's Just Not That into You, Disney, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Valentine's Day, Kevin James, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Berlin International Film Festival, and Sony
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Cinematical | December 01, 2008
Stuff and Things: Some Post-Turkey 'Tron' Sequel Hatin'
...member of the group." The Berlin International Film Festival has announced its opening night film, and that honor has gone to Tom Tykwer's (Run, Lola, Run) The International, starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. YouTube is holding a...
In this article: Tron, George Miller, Whip It, Halloween 2, Halloween, Dark Horizons, Michelin, MTV, and Berlin International Film Festival
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SPIEGEL ONLINE - International | February 04, 2009
Worry Lines Through the Botox: Berlinale Reflects Leaner Times for Movie Business
...this development. Tom Tykwer, known for his bank robbery fable "Run Lola Run," will premiere his new thriller "The International" on Thursday, when it opens the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, or Berlinale. This time the bank...
In this article: Clint Eastwood, Peter Bart, The International, Botox, Hollywood, Berlin, Champagne, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Thomson, and Detroit
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The Hollywood Reporter | November 28, 2008
Tykwer's 'International' to open Berlinale
...Film Festival on Feb. 5, 2009, screening Out of Competition. It will be Tykwer's second Berlinale opening, following "Heaven" which bowed at the 2002 event. But unlike "Heaven," which was an art-house film more on the lines of...
In this article: Clive Owen, The International, Naomi Watts, Sony, Heaven, Winter Sleepers, Berlin International Film Festival, Interpol, and Columbia Pictures
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International Herald Tribune | February 15, 2009
At uneven Berlin film festival, notions of globalism abound
...opening-night film, "The International." A Hollywood action spectacle directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer, this tricked-up tale of a worldwide financial conspiracy has a hint of accidental topicality. In a news conference last month, the...
In this article: Berlin, Hans-Christian Schmid, Days of Glory, Naomi Klein, Suicide, Neoliberalism, Capitalism, Marife Necesito, and Berlin International Film Festival
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Tom Tykwer (born 23 May 1965 in Wuppertal, Germany) is a German film director best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run (1998).
Tykwer was fascinated by film from an early age. He started making amateur Super 8 films at the age of eleven and later helped out at a local arthouse cinema to see more movies, including those he was too young to buy tickets for. After graduating from high school, he unsuccessfully applied to numerous film schools around Europe and moved to Berlin, where he worked as a projectionist. In 1987, at the age of 22, he became the programmer of the Moviemento cinema and was known to German directors as a highly respected film buff.
In Berlin, Tykwer met and befriended the filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim, who urged him to create stories from his own experience and suggested that Tykwer record arguments with his girlfriend at the time, and turn them into a short film. Because (1990) was screened at the Hof Film Festival and well-received by the audience, which inspired Tykwer to continue pursuing filmmaking. He made a second short film, Epilog (1992), that plunged him into personal financial debt, but gained him valuable technical filmmaking experience.
Tykwer wrote the screenplay for -and directed- his first feature film, Deadly Maria, which aired on German television and saw a limited theatrical release in Germany and the international film festival circuit.
Miramax produced his next film, Heaven (2002), based on a screenplay by the late Polish filmmaker, Krzysztof Kieślowski. It was shot in English, starred Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi, and filmed in Turin and Tuscany.
- Birth Date:
- May 23, 1965
- Birthplace:
- Wuppertal, Germany
- Occupation:
- film director & screenwriter
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