![]() ![]() ![]() Milestone’s film closely followed the novel, which had been published just two years earlier, and his battle scenes were remarkable for the era (it won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director), but the melodramatic acting makes it unwatchable today. ![]() ![]() These qualities make it a tough nut for would-be adapters to crack, though three directors have tried: Lewis Milestone in 1930, Delbert Mann in a CBS TV movie in 1979, and now Edward Berger for Netflix. All Quiet on the Western Front may be the best war novel ever written, a work told entirely in first person and present tense that evokes the myriad aspects of combat-its gruesome horrors, routine banalities, feverish otherworldliness, and fervent camaraderie-with engrossing vividity, in language at once sparse and explicit, though never gratuitously graphic or sentimental. ![]()
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