RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

Shame it's only playing tonight.



--- John Iwaniszek <not AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
> > -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
> alt.music.chapel-hill --
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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. 
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
> alt.music.chapel-hill --
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene
> 



                
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