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Jun 15, 2024 · When Oskar Matzerath (the extraordinary David Bennent, just twelve at the time) receives a tin drum for his third birthday, he vows to stop growing there and then - and woe betide anyone who tries to take his beloved drum away from him, as he has a banshee shriek that can shatter glass.
Jun 9, 2024 · The Tin Drum, which earned the Palme d’Or at Cannes and the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, is Volker Schlöndorff’s visionary adaptation of Nobel laureate Günter Grass’s acclaimed novel, characterized by surreal imagery, arresting eroticism, and clear-eyed satire.
This movie is a sprawling epic. It blows my mind that the movie’s narrative only covers about 1/3 of the novel. I’ve watched it several times and while it’s not a pleasant movie, it’s certainly never dull. It has all the elements of a 70s foreign art house film.
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Jun 11, 2024 · Acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II,The Tin Drumis the autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution.
4 days ago · In Martin Amis’s 1991 novel Time’s Arrow, the story of the Holocaust is told in reverse, so that, in one extraordinary scene, kindly Nazi doctors in a concentration camp fetch gold from their private stores and use it to put fillings into the teeth of Jewish dental patients.
Jun 25, 2024 · A compelling look at denial, disappointment and destiny, “The Last Mentsch” is a beautiful road-trip movie that might not lead where you think it will.