RTP-area local music and culture

[John Iwaniszek <not AT hotmail.com>]

grady wrote:

> This is a fucking great movie--just incredibly gripping & also 
> profoundly "educational" about what goes on at the grassroots of an 
> armed insurgency. By "educational" I don't mean "dry and boring," 
> either. The thing was shot verite-style, and (controversially) with
> the cooperation of one of the leaders of the Algerian guerilla
> resistance. It's an eerily realistic recreation of the actual events.
> 
> Go see it tonight if at all possible:
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
> Stolen Nation Film Series kicks off with a "celebration" of Bush's 
> inauguration with a screening of the formerly banned and recently 
> restored "Battle of Algiers."
> 
> Thursday, January 20th at the North Carolina School of Science & Math,
> ETC Auditorium
> 8:15 PM, FREE
> 
> Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 classic is considered one of the most 
> influential historic films about modern politics in the Middle East. 
> Shot in the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a
> case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the
> brutal techniques used to combat them. The Battle of Algiers vividly
> recreates a key year in the tumultuous struggle for Algerian
> independence from the occupying French colonial forces in the 1950s.
> 
> Nominated for 3 Academy Awards (Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Film and
> Best Director) and winner of the Grand Prize at the Venice Film 
> Festival, this film also bears the distinction of being banned in
> France in 1965 and screened by the Pentagon prior to the invasion of
> Iraq in 2003. The Battle of Algiers is a film with astonishing
> relevance - the echoes of which can still be heard today.
> 
> For more info about the movie, the trailer and directions go to:
> http://www.geocities.com/stolen_nation_film_series/
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I have heard that this movie is used by the Pentagon to train for
dealing with insurgencies.  I doubt Our Leader has seen it.  Maybe if
Arnold does a remake.