Netflix is finally on it. They replaced some of their “Pinocchio” FYC billboards in Los Angeles with “All Quiet on the Western Front,” this after a strong shortlist performance this past week.
“Glass Onion” has also started streaming on Netflix, it’s still their de facto strongest shot at a Best Picture nomination. However, if enough voters are willing to watch the brutally graphic 142 minute WWI-set “All Quiet on the Western Front” then it could get nominated instead. It’s my current choice to win Best International Film.
It’s been a very messy awards campaign for Netflix. Based on their FYC website, their top four priorities are Glass Onion, White Noise, Pinocchio, and The Good Nurse. With how the season, their top four should be Glass Onion, All Quiet, and Pinocchio. That’s it.
“All Quiet in the Western Front” was a very popular watch on Netflix this past October and received good reviews from critics and audiences. I attended the TIFF world premiere in early September, which was an absolute success. The audience loved it.
Set in 1917, filmmaker Edward Berger decides to take the bird’s eye view on things in this brutal depiction of WWI. This was a war movie from the perspective of the losers, a fly-on-the-wall depiction featuring a mosaic of characters. Anti-war filmmaking with, at the start, at least, no any apparent lead. The action was elaborately staged, the editing beautifully fluid.