End of Youth
In celebration of the Netflix production All Quiet on the Western Front, Metrograph screens a program of the works that preceded and inspired it, culminating with a presentation of Edward Berger’s Oscar-nominated film. Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front isn’t the first movie to set out to show that war is hell; it isn’t even the first adaptation of WWI veteran Erich Maria Remarque’s 1928 novel of the same name. But the tragic fact is that anti-war stories have never been obsolete, and so Berger’s harrowing depiction of the terrors of the trenches—and of the deceitful appeals to patriotic duty that led men into them—has plenty to say to our own bellicose times.