In celebration of the Veterans’ Weekend, come and enjoy these anti-war masterpieces about WWI
* All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
* Paths of Glory (1957)

We’ll meet at 5P and start watching Western Front at 5:30, and Paths of Glory at 7:45.

Details: All Quiet on the Western Front was the first Best Picture winner based on a novel. It opened in 1930 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 1997. A decade later, All Quiet on the Western Front was ranked the seventh-best American epic film.

In 1991, the film was selected and preserved by the United States Library of Congress’ National Film Registry as being deemed “”culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”” The film was the first to win the Academy Awards for both Outstanding Production and Best Director.

Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film co-written and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. Set during World War I, the film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refuse to continue a suicidal attack, after which Dax attempts to defend them against charges of cowardice in a court-martial.

In 1992, the film was deemed “”culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry

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