Interview With "All Quiet On The Western Front" Director, Edward Berger

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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"All Quiet On The Western Front" had its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, where it stunned audiences with its bleak story and technically astounding battle sequences. Based on the famous novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque, this is the first time the story has been adapted in German for a global audience. The film has been selected by Germany for Best International Feature Film at this year's Oscars and features some of the finest crafts of the year, all worthy of your consideration for this year's awards season. Director/Writer Edward Berger was kind enough to spend some time talking with me about why he decided now was the right time to tell this timeless story again, what went into making the action scenes, and more. Please take a listen to the interviews down below and be sure to catch the film on Netflix if you have not done so already. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the writer and director for All Quiet on the Western Front, Edward Berger. The The
0:40.3	The The German Our
0:55.0	German Our beloved people bearless make We are
1:11.6	We are together
1:16.6	We are
1:19.6	We are together
1:20.6	We
1:22.6	We
1:23.6	We are very nice to meet you, Edward.
1:28.3	I have
1:35.3	very nice to meet you too, Edward.
1:38.3	Thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me today about
1:42.3	all quite on the Western Front, which is now
1:45.3	currently playing in select theaters across New York and L.A. and is going to be rolling out to
1:51.9	Netflix pretty soon. I want to first start off by asking, there have been lots of war films
1:58.4	all throughout cinematic history.
2:12.3	I almost feel like we've gotten to a point with the war genre where a lot of people are feeling like almost every story has been told in a stylistic way that has been done before.
2:20.2	So this movie itself is based on the book that was adapted into a 1930 Best Picture Winner, a television series, and now your version here as well.
2:25.1	So talk to me first about wanting to tackle a story that's been told before and what
2:31.4	unique perspective you wanted to tell it from.
2:34.1	It's basically my perspective, my very personal perspective, and that's hopefully a different one.
2:40.3	So I can tell you how it started.
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