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...narrative filmmaking. His first fiction feature, “It’s A Jungle Out There,” (“Nach fünf im Urwald,” screening Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 9 p.m.) casts “Run Lola Run” star Franka Potente as a rebellious teenager who runs away from home to Munich’s big-city “jungle.” Schmid would revisit the drifting-teenager theme with 2000’s “Crazy” (screening Sunday...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HFA Features Rising German Star | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

...pals, most notably the grimly implacable Ted Conklin (Chris Cooper). They don't want to get tangled up in the loose ends of his previous failure--congressional oversight and all that. They have all the latest electronics to aid them. He has only Marie (Franka Potente, late of Run Lola Run), whom he picked up in Zurich, but she is a game gal--and an unglamorously appealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Just Call Him the Anti-007 | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...Bourne Identity (June 14): Starring Matt Damon in the title role and co-starring Franka Potente (Run Lola Run), this movie is based on the first of Robert Ludlum’s three book series about Jason Bourne, the master spy. Begining with an amnesiatic Bourne, the movie follows the spy as begins to notice that he happens to have all these spy-like attributes (i.e. mastery of martial arts, linguistics, and espionage). Aided by Potente as the requisite female helpmate/love interest, he starts to figure out who he is. Just to make it interesting, everyone’s trying...

Author: By Vijay A. Bal, Matthew Callahan, Clint J. Froehlich, Tiffany I. Hsieh, Steven N. Jacobs, Michelle Kung, Amelia E. Lester, and Benjamin J. Soskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Sink or Swim? | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

...changed. The influence of the same big three - Miyake, Kawakubo and Yamamoto - continues to dominate. And the same Japanese design houses are still regarded as sources of inspiration rather than models for how to build luxury brands. "They are so independent, they are icons in the fashion world," says Franka Sozzani, editor-in-chief of Italian Vogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Concept, High Stakes | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...movie takes no ethical position on the business and pleasure of dope, but it gets plenty upset about the perfidy of women. Except for his first doomed love, Barbara (Franka Potente from Run Lola Run), every female in George's life is a harpy with a vengeance. His meanspirited mom (played by a miscast Rachel Griffiths, who is five years younger than Depp) turns him in to the police. His shrill, selfish wife Mirtha (Penelope Cruz, who for once manages to be unlikable) tells the cops he's holding. Even his daughter Kristina (Emma Roberts), the only person he cares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Movie Review: Substance Abuse | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

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