All Quiet on the Western Front Articles
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT at Film Forum
Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim in All Quiet on the Western Front The silent version of the best picture Academy Award winner All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), in my view the greatest war movie ever made, will be screened at New York City’s Film Forum on Monday, August 3. Showtimes are at 3:20, 6:50, and 9:20. Having been restored and preserved by the [...]
Best Films – 1930
Made at the dawn of the sound era, All Quiet on the Western Front remains the best war film ever made. Despite some brave (and not so brave) attempts by other filmmakers ever since, no other motion picture I’ve seen has captured the horrors of war with the honesty and the poignancy of Lewis Milestone’s rendition of Erich Maria Remarque’s pacifist novel. Lew Ayres plays [...]
National Film Registry
The National Film Registry, Library of Congress 1) ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) 2) ADAM’S RIB (1949) 3) THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938) 4) THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951) 5) ALIEN (1979) 6) ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) 7) ALL MY BABIES (1953) 8) ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) 9) ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955) 10) ALL THAT JAZZ (1979) 11) ALL THE [...]