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2 days ago · The Algerian government also supported the moment by investing in the film industry, so much so that The Battle of Algiers which was directed by the Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1966, and three years later, Greek auter Costa-Gavras’s Z was awarded an Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film and the Jury Prize in Cannes Film Festival.
5 days ago · 1) The Battle of Algiers (1966) Battle of Algiers Guerrilla Warfare (Part 1) Watch on. "The Battle of Algiers" is a seminal film about the Algerian War against French colonial rule. Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, it captures the brutal, violent struggle for independence during the 1950s and early 1960s.
1 day ago · In an example of form’s importance in a fiction film, Gillo Pontecorvo’s Kapò (1960), about the moral descent of a Jewish prisoner Edith (Susan Strasberg) into the titular role of a camp functionary, has been criticized for its use of cinematic techniques too ‘beautiful’ for its Holocaust-related subject (Daney Citation 2020, p. 169).
2 days ago · Among the luminaries who lavish admiration and appreciation are Tarantino, John Williams, Clint Eastwood, David Puttnam, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gillo Pontecorvo. Roland Joffé, Bruce Springsteen, Tornatore himself, and perhaps most memorably Lina Wertmuller, who says of Morricone, “He was crazy. That’s for sure.” If so, the world is better ...
2 days ago · He was in the tradition of Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers and was the man in that moment... it was a European moment." Personal life Family Oliver Stone and his wife Sun-jung Jung at the 2018 Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran. Stone has been married three times, first to Najwa Sarkis on May 22, 1971.
3 days ago · A perfect meeting of story and style, Gillo Pontecorvo’s guerrilla warfare drama The Battle of Algiers reflects in its grainy docu-style the scrappy tactics of the combatants: the...
Jun 3, 2024 · A perfect meeting of story and style, Gillo Pontecorvo’s guerrilla warfare drama The Battle of Algiers reflects in its grainy docu-style the scrappy tactics of the combatants: the...
4 days ago · You said four and a half hours, but it’s more like five! – N Think of it as a trilogy box set – C. So this week’s film – 279 minutes running time to be precise – is the 1934 adaptation of Victor Hugo’s epic, sprawling novel of 1862, Les Misérables.The novel itself is a dense, encyclopaedic work with Hugo frequently being diverted onto political or sociological tangents, so in a ...
4 days ago · From Havana to Hollywood examines the presence or absence of Black resistance to slavery in feature films produced in either Havana or Hollywood—including Gillo Pontecorvo's Burn!, neglected masterpieces by Cuban auteurs Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Sergio Giral, and Steve McQueen's Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave.
5 days ago · 01:50:49 - Hal and Craig watch Steven Soderbergh's Che: Part One (2008), chronicling the life of Argentine Revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his time lea…
