Film
The Battle of Algiers
- 4:30PM
- 7PM
Gillo Pontecorvo’s scorching landmark of revolutionary cinema unfolds with the visceral, gut-punching immediacy of a newsreel as it recreates the Algerian struggle for freedom from France as seen from the streets of the Casbah. A film so vividly realistic that it became a virtual how-to guide for launching a leftist guerrilla uprising, The Battle of Algiers matches its incendiary politics with an equally radical aesthetic.
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