1. And we finish our somewhat Oscar-inspired movie week on this blog by highlighting Sidney Lumet’s The Pawnbroker, about a Harlem pawnbroker and Holocaust survivor named Sol Nazerman, played incredibly well by Rod Steiger. It’s based on the eponymous novel by Edward Lewis Wallant, who died of a brain aneurysm at the age of 36. Wallant’s The Tenants of Moonbloom was published posthumously in 1963, was was reissued with a Dave Eggers introduction in 2003.

    And we finish our somewhat Oscar-inspired movie week on this blog by highlighting Sidney Lumet’s The Pawnbroker, about a Harlem pawnbroker and Holocaust survivor named Sol Nazerman, played incredibly well by Rod Steiger. It’s based on the eponymous novel by Edward Lewis Wallant, who died of a brain aneurysm at the age of 36. Wallant’s The Tenants of Moonbloom was published posthumously in 1963, was was reissued with a Dave Eggers introduction in 2003.

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