The Battle of Algiers (Blu-ray)
The Revolt that Stirred the World!
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 9, 2011
- Originally Released: 1966
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Jean Martin | |
| Performer: | Brahim Haggiag | |
| Directed by | Gillo Pontecorvo | |
| Screenwriting by | Franco Solinas & Gillo Pontecorvo | |
| Composition by | Ennio Morricone |
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It uses realism as an effect, documentary as a style. You feel that you're really there, and you can't help but be moved.
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Village Voice
[T]echnically brilliant and consistently engrossing....The emotion it most frequently and fervently inspires is sorrow. -- Grade: A-
A.V. Club
Fifty years after its first run, The Battle of Algiers is still a cinematic stick of dynamite.
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East Bay Express
Rating: 10/10 --
What do you want me to say? It's a masterpiece.
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The Retro Set
Rating: A --
Both a how-to manual for guerrilla terrorism and a cautionary tale about how to fight it. It's also quite possibly the finest war film ever made.
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Entertainment Weekly
[T]he 1965 classic is a revealing look at the mind-set of terrorists that is so relevant to current events that it was screened at the Pentagon.
USA Today
A thrilling film, shocking and often unsubtle, it's also an eerily prescient snapshot of 21st-century global politics.
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Product Description:
Gillo Pontecorvo's presents a harrowing, documentary-style depiction of the Algerian's people's struggle to liberate themselves from France between 1954 and 1962. The film creates a stunning illusion of realism by combining actual newsreel footage with staged sequences featuring amateur and professional actors playing characters based on real people (including Saadi Yacef, the one-time leader of the FLN in occupied Algiers). With it's depiction of political torture and violence retaining every bit of the impact they had upon the film's original release, THE BATTLE FOR ALGIERS was re-released theatrically in 2003 to great acclaim and reevaluation. Winner of 11 International Film awards.
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- Sales Rank: 50,685
- UPC: 715515085113
- Shipping Weight: 0.55/lbs (approx)
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