Tonight's feature presentation
Volker Schlondorff was one of the key members of the New German Cinema, this is one of my favorite waves, a number of interesting figures from the well known Herzog, Wenders, my man Fassbinder, to the lesser knowns and in some cases finer, ergo less mainstream appeal with Schroeter, Kluge, and Syberberg. There's 2 of Schlondorff's I need to see, this one and The Last Honor of Katherine Blum. I choose this because it's earlier surely, but also because of the literary angle, you see it's based on the novel by the author of another unfinished novel that I consider one of the very greatest pieces of fiction written of all time!! I'm really hyping it up aren't I? Robert Musil is the author, and I remember reading an excerpt from Young Torless where it's described exquisitely and frighteningly what it really feels to read Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. //// Other Schlondorff films I like, well the one I would want to highlight more than Tin Drum, is BAAL, that one was special, how it's filmed has a unique look like we're looking into a crystal ball, but in the shape of the aspect ratio.
At an Austrian boys’ boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothing to help a victimized classmate—until the torture goes too far. Adapted from Robert Musil’s acclaimed novel, YOUNG TÖRLESS launched the New German Cinema movement and garnered the 1966 Cannes Film Festival International Critics’ Prize for first-time director Volker Schlöndorff.
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