This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at the Battle of Algiers through the eyes of five ...
Some of the greatest war movies in cinema history have been forgotten ...
You don’t need long to figure out what most movies want you to think of them. “The Battle of Algiers” never asks. It doesn’t argue for itself; it takes up residence. The opening minutes — Ali La ...
The story of a family in the instability and violence that shook Algeria during the riots of October 1988 in the midst of the rise of fundamentalism and intolerance, disappointments and prohibitions, ...
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 ...