Screen Arts - S2 Week 8


28/08/2019


 Agnieszka Holland
Polish filmmaker

 Movieclips Classic Trailers. (2012, October 5). Europa europa official trailer #1 - andrÉ wilms movie (1990) hd [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqMBNCo7LPE

 Europa Europa looks like a beautiful film on Holocaust that's worth a watch


Warner Bros. (2015, February 11). The secret garden (1993) - original theatrical trailer [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zeqqhA5Z3A

 The Secret Garden was a film that made a bit nostalgic because it's a film from my childhood. It was also one of my nana's favourite movies.


Sonysloba. (2010, February 22). Olivier, olivier trailer [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtNu5-w3uwA

 Olivier, Olivier was only understandable through the visuals because it was in French and didn't have English subtitles


It was interesting to see that she direct a couple of episodes of The Wire and House of Cards.
Tom Twykwer
German filmmaker

 Arndt, S., Henke, G., Schreitmuller, A., & Tykwer, T. (1998). Run lola run [Motion picture]. Germany: Sony Pictures Classics.


IMDb (n.d.). Run lola run (1998) - imdb. Retrieved August 28, 2019, from Internet Movie Database website: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827/
Title: Run Lola Run
Director: Tom Twykwer
Year: 1998
Country: Germany

 Black and white in this film is conventionally used with film grain to tell backstory, exposition and past events. The scenes with Lola's father inn between her running scenes look like it was shot on either VHS or DV. The flash forwards are interesting in telling what will happen to characters in the future that you never see again in the film onwards.

 The split screens have soft edges and is also used in a conventional way to show more than one character from different characters or to include something important to the plot in a scene. Red is in the scene after Lola is shot is either reminds us that she is dead or that it is something from Lola's perspective - red being her hair colour. The film has stylised itself like a Telltale game where different courses of actions by the protagonist brings different consequences, this is proven where the flash forwards show a different future. It's like the butterfly effect.

It goes like a Telltale game because when she sees her father a second time - there is different dialogue and chain of events. The stylish overload reminds me of Natural Born Killers, but with some aspects of Edgar Wright (cinematography, editing).

 In a scene after Manni is hit by an ambulance, we see the scene in red from his perspective. So the red in this scene isn't meant to symbolise Lola, but it could be death. The film starts to get tiresome after this when she tries again like some sort of video game character. I have no clue why the filmmaker decided to have animated segments in this film.

 The purpose of the music in this film seems to use to direct the flow or intensity of the action in the film or scene(s).

 I recognized the actor of Lola's father from the 2000 TV film, Nuremberg.

It's a film that would recommend to other budding filmmakers who looking to watch influential films that could spark their creativity. I wouldn't to mainstream audiences because many common English-speaking audiences don't want to watch a live-action film with foreign language dialogue.

Project
I talked to Traci about issues around the filming like how the equipment seems to be booked up for a while because the third year film students are doing their solo projects and booked them about a month ago. Even back then, I didn't know for certain what I was going to do for my projects and didn't know to book the equipment a month in advance at this time of year. She made suggestions like working on the third year solo projects, so that they can in turn help me. 

 I have doubts that I would be helpful because of my awkward nature with the equipment and they may not have any use for someone like me. If it any roles I could be useful in would be script supervisor, 2nd AC, or BTS.

30/08/2019


 IMDb (n.d.). Lola rennt - awards - imdb. Retrieved August 30, 2019, from Internet Movie Database website: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827/awards?ref_=tt_ql_op_1
Awards - Run Lola Run
= 20 award wins
At the 1998 Bambi Awards, it won Best Actress - National.
At the 1998 Bogey Awards (in Germany), it won the Bogey Award.

 At the 1999 Bavarian Film Awards, it won Best Production.
It won the Ernst Lubitsch Award in 1999.
At the 1999 German Film Awards, it won German Film of the Year, Outstanding Feature Film, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Direction, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography.
At the 1999 German Film Critics Association Awards, it won Best Film.
At the 1999 Golden Trailer Awards, it won Most Original.
At the 1999 Guild of German Art House Cinemas Awards, it won German Film.
At the 1999 International Biennal for Film Music, it won the Special Prize of the German Phono Academy.
At the 1999 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards, it won Best Foreign Film.
At the 1999 National Board of Review (USA), it was named one of the top foreign films.
At the 1999 Seattle International Film Festival, it won Best Film.
At the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, it won the Audience Award - World Cinema, which tied them with Train of Life.

 At the 2000 Chlotrudis Awards, it won Best Cinematography.
At the 2000 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards, it won Best Foreign Language Film.
At the 2000 Film Independent Spirit Awards, it won Best Foreign Film.
At the 2000 Florida Film Critics Circle Awards, it won Best Foreign Language Film.
At the 2000 International Cinematographers' Film Festival Manaki Brothers Awards, it won the Special Jury Award.
At the 2000 Online Film & Television Association Awards, it won Best Foreign Language Film - Germany.
At the 2000 Online Film Critics Society Awards, it won Best Editing, and Best Foreign Language Film - Germany.
At the 2000 Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards, it won Best Foreign Language Film.



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