About this episode
The seventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1999 features our foreign film pick, Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run . Written and directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu and Herbert Knaup, Run Lola Run won the audience award for world cinema at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/run-lola-run-1999 ), Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly ( https://ew.com/article/1999/06/25/run-lola-run-2/ ), and Janet Maslin in The New York Times ( https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/032699lola-film-review.html ). Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1999 installment, featuring a special Halloween bonus, found-footage horror hit The Blair Witch Project