The greatness of "The Battle of Algiers" lies in its ability to embrace moral ambiguity without succumbing to it. And although Pontecorvo has been rightfully lionized for the realism of the film ...

Rock the Casbah By Gregg Barrios 'Battle of Algiers' raises timeless questions for occupying forces Watching Gillo Pontecorvo's classic film, The Battle of Algiers, nearly... Best of San Antonio ...

For 115 minutes, The Battle of Algiers tells the story of the snuffing out of the leadership of the underground Front de Libération Nationale (FLN), from 1954-1957. In the opening scene, the last ...

The ‘Battle of Algiers’ was a pivotal event in the Algerian War of Independence. Taking place in the tiny backstreets and alleys of the Algiers Casbah from the summer of 1956 through to ...

Algiers' Old City is facing a crisis ... the Algerian state has allocated more than $800 million for the Algiers Casbah’s ... the hero of "The Battle of Algiers," Gillo Pontecorvo ...

When Gillo Pontecorvo’s “Battle of Algiers” opened in 1966, the neo-realist film about Algerian resistance fighters in French-occupied Algiers stunned audiences with its energy, filmmaking ...

Strangely enough, this season’s most electrifying and urgently topical movie was filmed not last year but nearly four decades ago. A stunningly vivid, endlessly thought-provoking chronicle of ...

For those who have seen “The Battle of Algiers,” Gillo Pontecorvo’s masterful 1966 panorama of political insurrection and urban anxiety, the title alone can summon forth indelible images of ...

If you see ”The Battle of Algiers” today, its unruly, headlong rush of ”objective” style, potent as it is, no longer carries the same ring of this-is-really-happening authenticity.

Algiers (AFP) – A UNESCO-listed rabbit warren of 16th-century battlements and Ottoman palaces, the Casbah of the Algerian capital is falling into disrepair, but efforts to save it have been ...