Catch-22 (1970)
Directed by Mike Nichols
A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
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A virtuoso black comedy about the Bosnian conflict circa 1993, writer-director Danis Tanovic's Oscar-winning film displays something of the wit of Joseph Heller's "Catch-22", while also echoing that book's frankness about the absurdities of war.
Bosnian writer-director Danis Tanovic, a prize-winning documentarian who filmed the war in Sarajevo, has created an anti-war movie that will remind Americans of the ironic absurdities seen in "Catch-22," the 1970 Mike Nichols film based on Joseph Heller's satiric novel.
(CNN) -- "No Man's Land," Danis Tanovic's absurdist chamber piece about the Bosnian war, is two parts Samuel Beckett to one part "Catch-22."
Saving Private Ryan has earned comparisons to Oliver Stone's Platoon for its revelations of torn flesh and combat, but the whole film seems somehow closer in overall tone to Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, a chilly study of Vietnam War absurdity, or even Joseph Heller's Catch-22.
Nichols once electrified and frequently upset the movie-going world with works like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, Carnal Knowledge and Catch-22.