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Is there anything left to say about "The Battle of Algiers"? ("Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound ...
In a smartly subtitled new print from Rialto Pictures, Gillo Pontecorvo's 1965 masterpiece of ripped-from-events filmmaking, The Battle of Algiers, barrels off the screen bristling with layers of ...
Some civil war must have raged within director/co-writer Gillo Pontecorvo, between the revolutionary who chooses sides in this story of resistance, and the poet who has enough integrity not to ...
Originally released as a motion picture in 1966. Based on: Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger / Saadi Yacef. Accompanying booklet includes an essay by film scholar Peter Matthews; a reprinted interview ...
Roxana Hadadi is a TV critic who also writes about film and pop culture, with the closed captions on and motion smoothing off.
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The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 film that poetically captures Algerian resistance to French colonial occupation, is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time. But in the 50 years since its ...