All Quiet on the Western Front wins the award for best international feature film at the 95th Academy Awards. Photograph: Todd Heisler/The New York Times The screening of All Quiet on the Western Front was a modest affair – two people and a tolerable Tempranillo – but the location made it special. Watching on my home projector last October with a neighbour, the story playing out on my livingroom wall had finally come home. A century ago, on the opposite side of the wall, a young advertising copy writer named Erich Remarque hammered out a novel that changed how the...