The Battle of Algiers
Former petty criminal Ali la Pointe becomes a commander of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directing a guerilla insurgency against the colonial French occupation. Paratrooper commander Colonel Phillippe Mathieu, a veteran of World War II and the First Indochina War, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings. From TMDB
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60 of 146 · most liked first“Hairspray was a sneak attack. I love The Battle of Algiers more than any movie, so I tried to put that together with The Wizard of Oz" oh i love that framing
neutral · AI labelView post →First Reformed, How To Blow Up A Pipeline…. The Battle of Algiers. These are all great movies. OBAA is also a great movie but its doing a different thing.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you want to see a cool movie that's absolutely in no way applicable to anything that's going on right now, The Battle of Algiers is free to watch on Kanopy! www.kanopy.com/en/product/b...
neutral · AI labelView post →eagle eyed movie enjoyers might notice Bob Ferguson watching Pontecorvo’s classic work of revolutionary cinema The Battle of Algiers FUN MOVIE FACT: This movie was screened by the Pentagon in the leadup to the Iraq War!! 🇺🇸
neutral · AI labelView post →REDUX - July 4th Holiday Edition 🇺🇸 For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM Watch or (Rewatch) the renowned, classic film "The Battle of Algiers" (1966) - Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo Available on HBO Max and on Tubi here ⬇️ tubitv.com/movies/10004...
neutral · AI labelView post →Gillo Pontecorvo (with scenes from his film "The Battle of Algiers") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →The Battle of Algiers debuted 60 years ago this August. I wrote a historian's guide to the now classic film. Read it here:
neutral · AI labelView post →1) the Battle of Algiers is a charismatic movie 2) people on the Internet mixed together two wave/particle definitions of racism and abolished the idea that personal-level prejudice matters and that social relations could be complex, so they could be meaner with clearer consciences.
neutral · AI labelView post →The first non-democratic regime we study is colonialism. No better movie to teach about colonial rule than the classic "The Battle of Algiers" - also a cinematographic master piece!
neutral · AI labelView post →The last 4 movies I watched... Glory The Battle of Algiers Field of Dreams Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky boxd.it/Iqj
neutral · AI labelView post →Mrs Davis Ted Lasso Scrubs (original) Scrubs (reboot) Finding Nemo The Battle of Algiers Golden Girls Jaws Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws Transformers: The Movie Star Wars: Episode I Widow's Bay Welcome Back Kotter The Lion in Winter Coronation Street
neutral · AI labelView post →We’re kicking off One Battle After Another Week with The Battle of Algiers. Gillo Pontecorvo’s portrait of the Algerian struggle remains a landmark of cinema 60 years later. Guru David Zeiger revisits the 1966 classic in his brand-new trailer commentary: trailersfromhell.com/the-battle-o...
neutral · AI labelView post →I have to admit, this is not a statement I would ever have guessed John Waters would make: "I love “The Battle of Algiers” more than any movie." Glad to be wrong!
neutral · AI labelView post →Gillo Pontecorvo (with scenes from his film "The Battle of Algiers") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →It's like if The Dude was in the middle of the Battle of Algiers, but once you know that's what the movie is, it's harder to get mad
neutral · AI labelView post →Hegseth hasn't seen "The Battle of Algiers" (it's in black and white, eww), but he has seen every King Kong movie, so he still considers himself an expert on guerrilla warfare.
neutral · AI labelView post →2. The Battle of Algiers If you watch one movie on recent post-colonial history, it should be this one.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Battle of Algiers debuted 60 years ago this August. I wrote a historian's guide to the now classic film. Read it here:
neutral · AI labelView post →Having Leo watch The Battle of Algiers onscreen violated the MST3K rule, "never remind your audience of a better movie."
neutral · AI labelView post →For 60 Years, The Battle of Algiers Has Inspired Resistance. > The French government’s delegation to Venice refused to attend both the screening and the award ceremony at the end of the festival because, in the words of its head representative (civil servant and author Philippe Erlanger), “we interpret the inclusion of the film in the festival as a sign of hostility toward France.” French film critics — who as always flooded the Italian city for the festival, as they represented the largest…
neutral · AI labelView post →The Battle of Algiers more than lives up to it's reputation as a classic docudrama. It's a riveting and engrossing anti-colonial film that I can't recommend highly enough. #lastfourwatched
positive · AI labelView post →Let’s get radical: today in 1966 the Venice Film Festival gave top prize to Communist Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle Of Algiers, a how-to on terrorist tactics to gain independence. Hollywood was also smitten in 1968, giving Gillo a best director nod. A brilliant film that the Iranians may be studying
neutral · AI labelView post →“The Battle of Algiers is a banger movie” is 95% of the answer.
neutral · AI labelView post →This Monday (8/24), Leftist Movie Night is screening THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS in collaboration with Al-Awda South FL. If you’re a leftist and you’ve never seen it, now is your chance! RSVP: miamidsa.solidarity.tech/leftist-movi...
neutral · AI labelView post →I liked One Battle After Another, but when it had Leo watching The Battle of Algiers, it broke the MST3K rule about never reminding your audience of a better movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yesterday, I returned to Museum of the Moving Image for a screening of The Battle of Algiers (1966). Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, the film is based on the real-life rebellion (1954–62) of Algerians against French colonizers in North Africa. movingimage.org/event/the-ba... #movies #60s #Queens #NYC
neutral · AI labelView post →#GlasgowFilmChallenge Day 13: a film you've always wanted to watch but haven't yet The Battle of Algiers (1966) dir. Gillo Pontecorvo #filmsky #filmchallenge
neutral · AI labelView post →The fact that I introduced most of the people in my film class to The Battle of Algiers tonight makes me feel good about at least some of my choices.
neutral · AI labelView post →Check out the trailer for THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, the film we are screening this Monday (8/24) in collaboration with Al-Awda South FL. Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS dramatizes the Algerian resistance movement of the 1950s. RSVP: miamidsa.solidarity.tech/leftist-movi...
neutral · AI labelView post →Leftist Movie Night is screening the most significant anti-colonial movie ever made: THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, the film that depicted Algeria's armed resistance against France in the 1950s. This screening is in collaboration with Al-Awda South FL. RSVP here: miamidsa.solidarity.tech/leftist-movi...
neutral · AI labelView post →What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times? 🗃️ #HATM (I could have been dishonest and said Citizen Kane or Casablanca or The Battle of Algiers, but this one is it.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Alien Nation (1988) 2046 (2004) Oslo, August 31st (2011) The Battle of Algiers (1966) #LetterBoxdFriday #LastFourWatchd
neutral · AI labelView post →OBAA did violate the MST3K rule of "never remind your audience of a better movie" when PTA stuck The Battle of Algiers in there though.
neutral · AI labelView post →Top 5 movie genres are: spaghetti westerns existentialist gangster/crime musicals monsters, all of them The Battle of Algiers
neutral · AI labelView post →This is why I think this show is baby shit. About half the people who watch it completely reject the material the other half insists its pulling from. If you need this shit in movie for The Battle Of Algiers is right there, based on actual events.
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching: ‘The Battle of Algiers’, dir. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966. 🎥🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →Please join me and some historian friends to talk about one of my favorite films, The Battle of Algiers. This is a free one-hour webinar later this month. Hope to see you there! Register: luma.com/h8fb00s9
positive · AI labelView post →"oh you've GOT to watch The Battle of Algiers, it's the greatest war film ever" hmmmn, it's no Full Metal Jacket is it
negative · AI labelView post →Wednesday night movie: THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966)
neutral · AI labelView post →Everyone should watch "The Battle of Algiers" and "Z" and, well actually, every movie on this list.
neutral · AI labelView post →In the end Black Panther is a very politically confused movie, so claiming Killmonger was right isn’t very tenable because the filmmakers don’t give him a coherent worldview. Contrast this with The Battle of Algiers that genuinely engages with why anticolonial movements employ terrorist violence.
neutral · AI labelView post →#OnThisDay 2 February 1957: Forcible reopening of shops in the Casbah of Algiers by French military police, part of efforts to break a week-long general strike organized by the FLN. These actions were reenacted and immortalized in the film "The Battle of Algiers." #Algeria #France #MilitaryHistory
neutral · AI labelView post →Final @swsilents.bsky.social event for the 2024/2025 season starts today (12PM) 100th Anniversary screening of The Battleship Potemkin (1925); live music by John Sweeney (Special intro by Ian Christie). Then, The Battle of Algiers (1966) intro by myself. Tickets available: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
neutral · AI labelView post →“The Battle of Algiers” (1966) Sat. Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m. Gillo Pontecorvo’s influential film reconstructs pivotal conflicts during the Algerian War of Independence. Q&A with UCLA Comparative Literature Prof. Nouri Gana, UCLA Cinema & Media Studies Prof. Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli. Free: ucla.in/4zvqei0
neutral · AI labelView post →The Battle of Algiers What a movie
positive · AI labelView post →Day 18 #FavoriteMovie #MovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky Favorite film with a lesson learned The Battle of Algiers (1966) Director: Gillo Pontecorvo Lesson learned: Most conflicts don’t exist in black and white but murky grays.
positive · AI labelView post →Dude, I’m begging you: watch another movie. The Battle of Algiers Lawrence of Arabia Paths of Glory Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo Dude, Where’s My Car? I swear: there are other movies!
neutral · AI labelView post →John Waters wrote in one of his books that The Battle of Algiers was a film that was studied by Black Panthers, who took notes on the formations. You can learn from it. Those Black Panthers also kept a priest busy while Waters was screening one of his films by debating the priest in charge.
neutral · AI labelView post →from The Battle of Algiers (1966) — an excellent film btw
positive · AI labelView post →Delighted to have the opportunity to talk Andor and the Battle of Algiers with the folks from UConnPopCast... youtu.be/XznsihIemjw?...
neutral · AI labelView post →This August marked the 60th anniversary of the debut of the now-classic film, The Battle of Algiers. It's one of my favorites, and I'm hosting a film talk on it later in the month. Please join us! Register here: luma.com/h8fb00s9
positive · AI labelView post →Please join me and some historian friends to talk about one of my favorite films, The Battle of Algiers. This is a free one-hour webinar later this month. Hope to see you there! Register: luma.com/h8fb00s9
positive · AI labelView post →Well, since nothing any of these groups are doing is even illegal, operational security is nice, but really not necessary. But even if you have the technical aspects conquered, there's no effective way to vet people for being True Believers that wouldn't simultaneously doom your organization to low membership and paranoid infighting. And if anyone is doing things that are illegal, organizational silos were a thing even before the internet was a glimmer in Al Gore's eye, see: terror *cells.*…
neutral · AI labelView post →is the Battle of Algiers the first film shot in a pseudo documentary style, probably not but its one of the first. i’m not counting films that have documentary like segments like Citizen Kane
neutral · AI labelView post →another fun example: in 1969, leaders of the Black Panther Party were put on trial in new york. Prosecutors noted that, among their other activism, the Panthers held film screenings of The Battle of Algiers (1966). Prosecutors actually screened the film in court for the jury.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie watched today... The Battle of Algiers (1966) Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo **** (of four)
positive · AI labelView post →OK I was just watching one of those reels where an actor picks out their favourite films from ther Criterion closet, Cary Elwes just chose among othert things The Battle of Algiers, an absolutely like changing movie...if you haven't... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzuF...
neutral · AI labelView post →DON'T FORGET ABOUT OUR MOVIE NIGHT COMING UP! The Education Committee presents: DSA Movie Night! This month, we will be watching "The Battle of Algiers," a 1966 Italian-Algerian war film co-written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey how about that THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, eh? Good movie!
positive · AI labelView post →The Sunday dozen The Odyssey and much ado about Emily Wilson; The Battle of Algiers and a film about Shen Yun; Carlo Ginzburg and David Harvey; Rewiring the State, grief tech, Bob Dylan and more. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...
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