Westfront 1918 [Criterion Collection] Memoir_Gift_Guide ”—Kate Kennedy

”—Kate Kennedy

McKowen delves deeply into each of her nine points: what they mean

he’s not finding exclusivity as daunting anymore

He wakes up

when settlers spilled across the Appalachians to bloody effect in their haste to exploit lands won from the British in the War of Independence

Westfront 1918 [Criterion Collection] Memoir_Gift_Guide ”—Kate Kennedy"Westfront 1918 (aka Comrades of 1918) was the first talkie effort from German filmmaker G. W. Pabst, which he made for Nero Films, a production company headed up by Seymour Nebenzahl. Like the contemporary Hollywood production All Quiet on the Western Front, Pabst's film is a bitter, melancholy antiwar statement. The story concentrates on four German soldiers, sent to the front in the waning days of World War 1. The futility of killing an enemy who