Ep 806: Tom Tykwer • Jason Butler Harner

Sony Pictures Classics is bringing back a 4K restored “Run, Lola, Run” right around its 25th anniversary. The director Tom Tykwer is the guest. Also, actor Jason Butler Harner discusses his latest project, an indie film called “The Big Bend” wihich is enjoying a theatrical run.

Sony Pictures Classics is bringing back a 4K restored “Run, Lola, Run” right around its 25th anniversary. The director Tom Tykwer is the guest. Also, actor Jason Butler Harner discusses his latest project, an indie film called “The Big Bend” wihich is enjoying a theatrical run.

First up, the filmmaker Tom Tykwer (“Cloud Atlas”, “The Matrix Ressurections”) makes his first appearance. His breakout Berlin-based thrill ride “Run Lola, Run”, exploded on the scene back in 1998. It has been given the 4k restoration treatment by Sony Pictures Classics and will have a new theatrical for its 25th anniversary. Tom discusses his memories of those days. SYNOPSIS: In this visually and conceptually impressive film, two-bit Berlin criminal Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) delivers some smuggled loot for his boss, Ronnie (Heino Ferch), but accidentally leaves the 100,000 mark payment in a subway car. Given 20 minutes to come up with the money, he calls his girlfriend, Lola (Franka Potente), who sprints through the streets of the city to try to beg the money out of her bank manager father (Herbert Knaup) and get to Manni before he does something desperate.

Also, the actor Jason Butler Harner (“Ozark”, “Ray Donovan”) is in a new indie film called “The Big Bend” which is having a theatrical engagement this May. Two families, the Prices and the Talbotts, meet each other in the remote Texas desert and test the boundaries of marriage, friendship, and parenthood.