All Quiet on the Western Front
Making lists is an activity moviegoers are fond of. Every year, the same ritual: compilation of the ten best films, with comparative analyses, debates, heated discussions. But what about the ultimate list of the most outstanding films in the history of cinema? That is to say, those films that must be seen, those that have forever transformed the art of cinema, but also our way of seeing a culture, of understanding the world as well as our own lives? This program aims to tackle this challenge with nearly eighty films, produced between 1916 and 1960, while waiting for your lists!
August 1914. Young Germans, inflamed by patriotic speeches, join the army. They are disappointed when they discover the horror on the front. Adapted from E. M. Remarque, this classic war film, pacifist and anti-militarist, earned Milestone an Oscar.
Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone, born Lev Milstein is an American director, film producer and screenwriter, born September 30, 1895 in Chișinău in the Government of Bessarabia, then a province of the Russian Empire, and died September 25, 1980 in Los Angeles, California. First celebrated for the pacifism of his masterpiece, Nothing New in the West, he then produced several anti-Nazi propaganda films where his attitude to the legitimacy of violence is more nuanced. Wikipedia
