7.7 | / 10 |
Users | 4.5 | |
Reviewer | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.4 |
A boy is born in Germany with an advanced intellect. Annoyed by the world around him, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.
Starring: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel OlbrychskiForeign | 100% |
Drama | 97% |
War | 10% |
Dark humor | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.64:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.66:1
German: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 16-bit)
English
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)
DVD copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region B (locked)
Movie | 5.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
Winner of the prestigious Palme d'Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Volker Schlondorff's "Die Blechtrommel" a.k.a. "The Tin Drum" (1979) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors Arrow Films. The supplemental features on this release include original theatrical trailer; audio commentary by director Volker Schlondorff; and three video interviews with the German director. The release also arrives with a comprehensive booklet featuring new writing on the film by George Lellis and Hans-Bernhard Moeller as well as extracts from Volker Schlondorff's diary and a writing by Jean-Claude Carriere and Gunter Grass illustrated with archival stills. In German, with optional English subtitles for the main feature. Region-B "locked".
Oskar
Presented in an aspect ratio of 1.64:1m encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Volker Schlondorff's The Tin Drum arrive son Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors Arrow Films.
The Blu-ray disc contains new high-definition transfers for the Theatrical Version and newly reconstructed Director's Cut of The Tin Drum approved by Volker Schlondorff. The former runs at approximately 144 minutes, while the latter runs at approximately 164 minutes. My comments below will be for the Director's Cut of the film.
Detail and clarity are very pleasing. Contrast levels have also been largely stabilized. There are dramatic improvements in the area of color reproduction as well - the reds, greens, blues, browns, and blacks look substantially richer and better saturated than they are on the Criterion R1 DVD release of the film. Furthermore, there are no traces of overzealous sharpening and problematic denoising corrections. Unsurprisingly, a healthy dose of light grain is present at all times. This being said, compression could have been better as small artifacts occasionally pop up here and there. Extremely light noise and some background flicker have a tendency to creep in as well. During a few selected sequences sharpness levels also tend to spike up. Overall, however, the restoration efforts have produced solid results and the strong high-definition transfer makes it easy to appreciate them. (Note: This is a Region-B "locked" Blu-ray disc. Therefore, you must have a native Region-B or Region-Free PS3 or SA in order to access its content).
There is only one audio track on this Blu-ray disc: German DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (with portions of Polish). For the record, Arrow Films have provided optional English subtitles for the main feature.
The German DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track is strong. The dialog is crisp, clear, well balanced, and free of problematic hiss. Maurice Jarre's music score has also benefited from the loseless treatment - depth and especially fluidity are greatly improved. However, anyone expecting a wide variety of nuanced dynamics will likely be disappointed as the film's sound design is relatively modest. For the record, there are no sync issues or audio dropouts to report in this review.
Blu-ray
Forest Gump must have felt a lot like little Oskar while trying to understand the people around him and make sense of the world he lives in. In The Tin Drum the process is reversed – Oskar, the only sane person, slowly begins to change while the Nazis and then the Soviets destroy his country. The Blu-ray disc herein reviewed, courtesy of British distributors Arrow Films, contains the Theatrical Version and a newly reconstructed Director's Cut of the film. Both look very good. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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