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  • From: Fred Stutzman <fred AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Fwd: Battle of Algiers - FREE]
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:32:35 -0500 (EST)

Criterion just issued a superb 3-DVD edition of the film featuring a wealth of contextual materials. Highly reccomended, though it is quite expensive. Visart or Netflick it.


On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, James Hepler wrote:

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/
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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.
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