The boys’ instructor, Professor Kantorek ( Arnold Lucy), gives them an inspirational speech about the merits of military service and the honor that it will bestow upon their families. In the opening scene, Milestone subverted the rousing “call to arms” sequence that was common in Hollywood epics at the time.
The lines on a map mean nothing to the young men who have to suffer.Īll Quiet on the Western Front follows the lives of the young recruit Paul Bäumer ( Lew Ayres) and his colleagues during their recruitment and indoctrination into the German military. There was no sense of patriotism in the novel it concluded that the war solved nothing, and that only a truly depraved nation would engage in another global conflict. Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel of the same name was startling upon its initial release the book’s bleak perspective on German soldiers’ lives in the trenches and the carnage they witnessed was shocking to mass audiences. It’s no surprise that the film has become such a phenomenon, as it's based on one of the most important pieces of literature in the 20th century. Given the incredible response that the film has received and the advantage of Netflix’s award season campaigning, it’s likely that All Quiet on the Western Front will be one of the category’s frontrunners. The grizzly World War I epic has already earned rave reviews upon its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival, and Germany has selected the film as its official submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature. There’s a momentum that’s only ever heading one way as hand drums, pulsing electro and a cavalcade of buzzing zurna layer on like a game of Buckaroo, and then bosh! – the bass hits and you’re on a rooftop in Yerevan, staring at the mountains, techno fisting into the night sky.One of the most highly anticipated films of the 2022 fall festival season is Edward Berger’s ambitious reimagining of the classic anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front. But it’s ‘Right to Riot’ that stands as the album highlight, bringing together old and new in a rising, bona fide rattler of a track. ‘Raining’ swoons and groans with deep, dubby patience while the excellent ‘Round’ sounds deliciously like Embers -era Throwing Snow with its rich, woozy electronica and driving beat. Opener ‘Timelapse’ is sparse and hypnotic whereas the wailing ‘GL’ drops you onto the border of Europe and the Middle East before battering into a satisfying techno punch. After loitering and flyering outside the clubs of east London like an electro William Miller, Hagop found himself helping out Hot Chip and Four Tet on tour, observing their work and gradually developing a collection of his own sounds encouraged, and eventually co-signed, by Kieren Hebden for release on his own Text Records label.Īccording to Hagop, the sounds and vignettes that make up this debut album have been accumulating on a smartphone in his pocket for almost 15 years – from isolated snippets of videos sent by friends to recordings of street musicians – it all comes together on Bolts in a vibrant mix of lo-fi techno and manipulated folk instruments that vividly speak to his Armenian heritage.
As a teen, and guitar player in ’90s post-grungers Symposium, he hit the Warped tour and played the main stage at Reading Festival, but also ended up in a debt-ridden split that pushed him away from guitar music and into a growing love of dance. The story of Hagop Tchaparian reads like a reanimation of Almost Famous.
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