November Film Club

Hello everyone!

So sorry for the SUPER late update for Film Club, but here goes.  First, thank you to everyone who came out for Horror Fest, once again you've all outdone yourselves, we had a great time and watched some fun scary, alien themed movies.  Thank you for making my job so easy.

On to November.
For the month of November I've decided to show a war film in honor of Veteran's Day (something we've been doing the past couple years now).  But, this year is also the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that led to stopping the hostilities of WWI.  So, for this very special Veteran's Day I've decided to show Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front.

All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American epic pre-code war film based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name.  Directed by Lewis Milestone, it stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander.  It opened to wide acclaim in the United States.  Considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, it made the American Film Institute’s first 100 Years...100 Movies list in 1998.  A decade later, after the same organization polled over 1,500 workers in the creative community, All Quiet on the Western Front was ranked the seventh best American epic film.  In 1990, the film was selected and preserved by the United States Library of Congress’ National Film Registry as being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”  All Quiet on the Western Front received tremendous praise in the United States.  The film was the first to win the Academy Award for both Outstanding Production and Best Director.  The film currently holds a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and Irene Thirer, writing for New York Daily News in the year the film was released, said this in her review, “All Quiet on the Western Front depicts a war which is wild, mad, raging with fight.  Universal’s audible screen production of Erich Maria Remarque’s sensational best seller, is so magnificent, so powerful, that it hardly behooves mere words to tell of its heart-rending appeal, of its dramatic fire, its breath-taking battle shots in which men stab and kill each other, for the glory of war.  It is not only a great motion picture because it has been built firmly and consistently upon the plot of a great book: It smacks of directional genius-nothing short of this; sensitive performances by a marvelous cast and the most remarkable camera work which has been performed on either silent or sound screen, round about the Hollywood studios.”

I hope you will be able to come out and join us for this wonderful, harrowing film!

Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grapXipP3fM