The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri)

“(OK) Powerfull, non manicheist (terrorists are terroists, even the women leaving bombs in the worst ways and places), non lineal but comnprehensive structura, even sexy and startling...” read more

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"9.6 "It's hard to start a revolution. Even harder to continue it. And hardest of all to win it. But, it's only afterwards, when we have won, that the true difficulties begin. In short, Ali, there's still much to do.""

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"February 23rd Directed by: Gillo Pontecorvo An extremely impressive and shocking film, it's really hard to know at times if what you're seeing is fabrication or not. You don't have to be ingrained in the politics of Algeria in the 1950s to get what's going on, it's really very simple, but I did feel like the focus was shaky after the first hour or so. I feel like there were too many scenes of French colonizers just talking, maybe I missed the point of those scenes. But overall this is a tremen"

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"“I don’t have a conversation about the ten or fifteen best movies without The Battle of Algiers…. I know they didn’t use documentary or newsreel footage, and yet every time I see certain scenes, I think, ‘that’s obviously newsreel footage,’ and you cannot convince me otherwise – even though I know they’re not lying.” - Ben Mankiewicz “ is able to conjure a sense of time and place, but also energy, the revolutionary spirit. The filmmaking is so visceral…. Grand themes re"

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" Notes: Since I kept hearing some really great things about this flick, I was really eager to check it out and I had some rather high expectations. Eventually, the whole thing turned out be even better than I expected which is something that very rarely happens. Obviously, it was highly controversial in France where it was banned for many years which is not surprising since this movie was shot only 3 years after the actual independence of Algeria. This civil war lasted almost a decade and was"

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" Notes: Since I kept hearing some really great things about this flick, I was really eager to check it out and I had some rather high expectations. Eventually, the whole thing turned out be even better than I expected which is something that very rarely happens. Obviously, it was highly controversial in France where it was banned for many years which is not surprising since this movie was shot only 3 years after the actual independence of Algeria. This civil war lasted almost a decade and was"

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" Notes: The whole thing turned out be even better than I expected which is something that very rarely happens. Obviously, it was highly controversial in France where it was banned for many years which is not surprising since this movie was shot only 3 years after the actual independence of Algeria. This civil war lasted almost a decade and was very traumatizing for France so, to get such a bleak realistic depiction of this war so soon after this conflict was ended was probably too hard to swal"