Overview
It’s quite telling that Katja Raganelli chose the animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger as her gateway figure into German cinema’s past. Like Alice Guy-Blaché, she was prolific, and worked in all kinds of formats, including commercials and animated interludes for fiction features. More than Guy-Blaché, though, she was an inventor of forms and techniques whose genius was admired by the likes of Bertolt Brecht. It says a lot about film history that Reiniger remains still a specialists’ darling…
Cast
Lotte Reiniger
Herself (archive footage)
The Empire Strikes Back
Terminator Salvation
Return to the Blue Lagoon
L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach
Prometheus
Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler
Full Metal Jacket
xXx: State of the Union
Stand Up Guys
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Universal Soldier: The Return
The Silence of the Lambs
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Taxi 2
Skyfall
Evil Dead II
Species
Inglourious Basterds
Punch-Drunk Love
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King