http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/08/01/writers-on-the-screen/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:38:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/08/01/writers-on-the-screen/comment-page-1/#comment-237365 Ray Olson Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:28:36 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/08/01/writers-on-the-screen/#comment-237365 Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front, played Professor Pohlman, a voice of wisdom character in the film of his novel A Time to Love and a Time to Die. I remember liking the film, which may have been a matter of stubbornness on my part, because I was a teenage cineaste who knew director Douglas Sirk was revered by the new-wave critics of the 1960s and wanted to be part of the cognoscenti. On the other hand, Sirk preferred sentimental romantic melodramas, and this love story set in WWII Germany is often cited as a 2-or-3-handkerchief weepie.

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