Archangel The Road to Glory

Two wildly divergent angles on World War I romance: Howard Hawks's hard-boiled The Road to Glory and Guy Maddin's amnesiac Archangel.

Set in an iced-over Russian city at the close of World War I, Archangel revolves around an insane love triangle between a Canadian soldier, a Belgian aviator, and a Russian nurse. All three suffer from a rare form of forgetfulness that causes them to confuse whom they're supposed to be in love with. It's Maddin's favorite of his own films, one that he's called "a full-blown amnesia melodrama" and his "most delirious feature." 1991 Winner of the National Society of Film Critics' award for Best Experimental Film. (1990; 90 mins.)

Cowritten by William Faulkner, Howard Hawks's The Road to Glory is a hard-boiled melodrama of heroism and romance set on the battlefields of WWI France. With Fredric March and Columbus native Warner Baxter. (1936; 97 mins.)