All Quiet on the Western Front

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All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

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Since 2007, there have been numerous international releases of the 2006 Library of Congress restoration on DVD and Blu-ray. In a retrospective review, American film critic Pauline Kael commented, "The year 1930 was, of course, a good year for pacifism, which always flourishes between wars; Milestone didn't make pacifist films during the Second World War—nor did anybody else working in Hollywood. Later re-releases were substantially cut and the film's ending scored with new music against the wishes of director Lewis Milestone. criticisms, it should be said that from World War I to Korea, Milestone could put the viewer into the middle of a battlefield, and make the hellish confusion of it seem all too real to the viewer. Almost a hundred years ago, when they first adapted Remarque's seminal anti-war novel of the same name, into a then-groundbreaking, now-classic movie, the world still had a few wars to get through before 'anti-war' sentiments became, overtly, and publicly, the norm.

Despite being directed by Delbert Mann and boasting a star-studded cast (Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Holm, Donald Pleasance) this version was far from being in the same league as the 1930 version and didn't do the book justice. This scene is different from the book, and was inspired by an earlier scene showing a butterfly collection in Paul's home. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

It was quite revolutionary, depicting the horrific reality of war rather than the glamourous, sanitised version. HDR and WCG, the former of the Dolby Vision variety, further enhance the piece, and also appear to do so more confidently here, allowing for those rich inky blacks with flashes of explosive pop, and never faltering under the extremes of what's on offer. Between 1930 and 1941, this was one of many films to be banned in Victoria, Australia, on the ground of 'pacifism', by the Chief Censor Creswell O'Reilly. Various edited versions have been distributed on video, including a Japanese subtitled Laserdisc with a running time of 103 minutes. This same version, running 102 minutes, was re-released very successfully by Realart Pictures in 1950, and Universal-International brought it back to theaters in 1958.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The scene was shot during the editing phase, so the actors were no longer available and Milestone had to use his own hand as Paul's.The recruits' first trip to the trenches with the veterans is a harrowing experience, during which Behn is killed. By the end, Germany's delegation to Rethondes appears indignant as the terms and conditions of armistice are quoted by Mathias Erzberger, namely forfeiting submarines, planes, weapons and so on; what is read there was not in the November 11, 1918 capitulation act but was imposed upon Germany next year in the Treaty of Versailles. Due to its anti-war and perceived anti- German messages, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party opposed the film.

One in the group is killed before the recruits can reach their post, to the alarm of one of the new soldiers (Behn). Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The former provides utter immersion on the expansive yet equally, somehow, claustrophobic battlefront, from artillery booms to thunderous gunshot, and savage close-quarters penetrations. Well it'll likely be polarising, sure, but it's never less than unique, a discordant, distorted Harmonium-dominated piece that creates a disarming accompaniment to the horror you witness, steeped in overtones of impending doom.

It's won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Cinematography, Best Production Design and Best Score (that last one is an easy fit - the aggressive, intrusive and arguably atypical score gifting the film its one glimmer of something different from its peers). A great number of German Army veterans were living in Los Angeles at the time of filming and were recruited as bit players and technical advisers. The film was finally re-released in Germany on April 25, 1952, in the Capitol Theatre in West Berlin. The site's critics' consensus reads: "Director Lewis Milestone's brilliant anti-war polemic, headlined by an unforgettable performance from Lew Ayres, lays bare the tragic foolishness at the heart of war. Escaping the clutches of Netflix through limited distribution rights, All Quiet on the Western Front has been able to make a fairly surprisingly swift transition to disc, and 4K disc no less, with its UK iteration coming courtesy of Altitude Film Distribution, who deliver it with outstanding 4K Ultra HD Dolby Vision and an utterly reference Dolby Atmos track, as well as a few nice extras to round out the package.



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