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• Tin Drum (1979) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (18/01/2021) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday. While the chaotic world around him careers toward the madness and folly of World War II, Oskar pounds incessantly on his beloved tin drum and perfects his uncannily piercing shrieks. The Tin Drum, which earned the Palme d'Or at Cannes and the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, is a visionary adaptation from VOLKER SCHLÖNDORFF (Young Törless) of Nobel laureate Günter Grass's acclaimed novel, characterized by surreal imagery, arresting eroticism, and clear-eyed satire. SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the complete version, approved by director Volker Schlöndorff Newly remastered 5.1 surround soundtrack, approved by Schlöndorff and presented in DTS-HD Master Audio New interview with Schlöndorff about the making of The Tin Drum and the creation of the 2010 restored, complete version New interview with film scholar Timothy Corrigan German audio recording from 1987 of author Günter Grass reading an excerpt from his novel The Tin Drum with musical accompaniment, illustrated with the corresponding scene from the film Television interview excerpts featuring Schlöndorff, Grass, actors David Bennent and Mario Adorf, and co-writer Jean-Claude Carrière reflecting on their experiences making the film Trailer New English subtitle translation PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Atkinson and 1978 statements by Grass about the adaptation of his novel

• The Lost Honour Of Katharina Blum | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When Katharina Blum spends the night with an alleged terrorist her quiet ordered life falls into ruins. Suddenly a suspect Katharina is subject to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist testing the limits of her dignity and her sanity. Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta's powerful adaptation of Heinrich Boll's novel is a stinging commentary on state power individual freedom and media manipulation - as relevant today as on the day of its release in 1975.

• The Tin Drum | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The narrator of the film is little Oscar a precocious child of a permissive petty bourgeois couple. He decides to stop growing on his third birthday as if refusing to enter the sordid sexuality of his surroundings and the unstoppable growth of Nazism the same year that Hitler came to power. With his noisy tin drum always at his side and a piercing scream that can shatter glass Oscar makes his disturbing but often darkly comic way through Hitler's Germany... This powerful adapt

• Hell | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £9.89   |  Saving you £6.10 (61.68%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hell is a Roland Emmerich produced post-apocalyptic film. It focuses on a few survivors in Germany, struggling to get on in a world where the sun has scorched the Earth and left it too bright to inhabit.It was once the source of life, light and warmth. But now the sun has turned the entire world into a baked and barren wasteland. Forests are scorched. Animal carcasses line the roads. Even the nights are dazzlingly bright.Maria, her little sister Leonie and Phillip are heading for the mountains in a car with tinted glass. Rumour has it that water can still be found there. It is a hazardous trip into the unknown. Along the way, they run into Tom. He turns out to be a first-rate mechanic and becomes indispensible. But can they trust him? The tension grows. As if things weren't bad enough, they are lured into an ambush and their real battle for survival begins...

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  Hell is a Roland Emmerich produced post-apocalyptic film. It focuses on a few survivors in Germany, struggling to get on in a world where the sun has scorched the Earth and left it too bright to inhabit. It was once the source of life, light and warmth. But now the sun has turned the entire world into a baked and barren wasteland. Forests are scorched. Animal carcasses line the roads. Even the nights are dazzlingly bright. Maria, her little sister Leonie and Phillip are heading for the mountains in a car with tinted glass. Rumour has it that water can still be found there. It is a hazardous trip into the unknown. Along the way, they run into Tom. He turns out to be a first-rate mechanic and becomes indispensible. But can they trust him? The tension grows. As if things weren't bad enough, they are lured into an ambush and their real battle for survival begins...

• Benny's Video | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (65.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  To fill the void of his middle class existence 14-year-old Benny immerses himself in the world of home video recordings and becomes increasingly distant from his family and the world around him. After inviting a girl to his house events take a nasty turn when he re-enacts a scene from one of his favourite videos - the slaughtering of a pig. With the critical and box-office success of Hidden (Cach'') and the remake of his classic Funny Games Michael Haneke has established himself as a leading director on the world's stage. Making films that are as shocking as they are intelligent Haneke's controversial journeys into the dark places within our media-saturated society continue to be unique and unparalleled.

• The Tin Drum | Blu Ray | (11/02/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Tin Drum is the newest entry into Umbrella's sub-label 'World Cinema' directed by Volker Schlöndorff. This drama is an adaptation of the 1959 novel The Tin Drum by Günter Grass and was mostly shot in West Germany. The film also won the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and Best Foreign Language Film at the 1980 Academy Awards.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.As a result, he retains a permanent child's-eye perspective on the rise of Nazism as experienced through petit-bourgeois life in his native Danzig, the ˜free city' claimed by both Germany and Poland whose invasion in 1939 helped kick-start World War II.With the help of Luis Buñuel's favourite screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, director Volker Schlöndoff turns Günter Grass' magical-realist masterpiece into a carnivalesque frenzy of bizarre, grotesque yet unnervingly compelling images as Oskar turns his increasingly jaded eye and caustic tongue on the insane follies of the adult world that he refuses to join.BANNED IN OKLAHOMA (2004) A film by Gary D. Rhodes: A documentary that covers the 1997 Oklahoma confiscation of the film The Tin Drum due to a judicial ruling of child pornography, and the six years of legal wranglings that ensuedAn Interview by Volker SchlondorffVolker Schlöndorff on the Director's CutVolker Schlöndorff on the Making of The Tin Drum, Cannes 2001 (French with English subtitles)Theatrical Trailer (English subtitles)