Lewis Milestone Articles
THE HURT LOCKER: Controversy Has Not Harmed Oscar-Nominated War Movies
Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce in The Hurt Locker (top); Lew Ayres in All Quiet on the Western Front (bottom) The Hurt Locker, an Iraq War drama that follows a US military bomb disposal unit, has been harshly criticized by some Iraq War veterans. Some have called the movie inaccurate and its depiction of soldiers in a war zone laughable. Others have gone as far as [...]
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 [...]
OF MICE AND MEN Screening
Lon Chaney Jr, Burgess Meredith in Of Mice and Men A newly restored sepia-tone print of the 1939 Best Picture nominee Of Mice and Men will be screened in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on Monday, July 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The evening [...]
Best Films – 1931
Willi Fritsch and Lilian Harvey in Congress Dances FILM À nous la liberté / Liberty for Us d, scr: René Clair City Streets d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Max Marcin, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Dashiell Hammett Daybreak d: Jacques Feyder; scr: Ruth Cummings, Cyril Hume, Zelda Sears Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath Five Star Final d: Mervyn LeRoy; [...]