reality of modern war films — or, at least, the good ones — that they tend

say that’s a contradiction that grows out of the kinetic, larger-than-life nature of the

no more powerful an example than “Saving Private Ryan

never seen a war film more thrilling, and I have never seen a war film

the new German version of “All Quiet on the Western Front” feels like an experience

hero, Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer), is a student who, three years into the

soon sent to the Western Front, a place where millions of soldiers have already gone

course of the war, the land “capture” on the Western Front was meager; the location

end of the war, 17 million men had fallen between those cracks

Hollywood version of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” directed by Lewis Milestone, is widely regarded