October 16, 2017 at 4:37 p.m.
ArtStart to show WWI films
ArtStart to show WWI films
"The film series shows movie masterpieces of the Great War from some of the most celebrated directors and artists of the 20th Century," according to an ArtStart press release. "These films lack the graphic violence of modern movies but are all the more powerful because of it. Instead, they focus on the human toll of the conflict, both physical and spiritual, by looking at the war from the soldier's point of view."
Next up in the series is "All Quiet on the Western Front," based on the Erica Maria Remarque novel of the same name. The film will be shown Thursday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. at ArtStart. Admission to all films is free.
The movie follows a company of young German soldiers from recruitment to war's end and chronicles their growing disillusionment with the war. Shot in 1930, 'All Quiet on the Western Front' was the first film to win the Academy Awards for both best picture and best director.
The series continues Thursday, Nov. 2, with Peter Weir's "Gallipoli," starring Mel Gibson. Maggie Smith and Laurence Olivier take center stage Thursday, Nov. 16, in the 1969 movie "Oh What a Lovely War," directed by Richard Attenborough. Dalton Trumbo is next up Thursday, Nov. 30, directing his literary classic "Johnny Got his Gun." The series concludes Thursday, Dec. 14, with "Joyeux Noël," the 2006 drama about the spontaneous Christmas Eve truce of 1914 in which British and German soldiers stopped fighting and celebrated the holiday together in no man's land.
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