Battle of Algiers

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RedStorm

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This is an amazing film and I highly suggest everyone here check it out. I just saw it last night for the first time. For those who don't know, it's about the Algerian fight for independence from France in the 1950's in a sort of mock-documentary style film. It deals with the rise of the FLN and their tactics, and the French response to it (which includes placing the Algerians in "ghettos", bombing their villages, torture, and the use of propaganda). It was shot only 3 years after the conflict ended in Algiers and also features one of the FLN's leaders (Saadi Yacef) playing himself in the film.

I got the Criterion Collection version that has 2 extra discs with documentaries and interviews with those who were involved, which are really insightful. It's pretty much a mirror image of what's going on with the US in the Middle East right now.

Plus, Ennio Morricone did the musical score, which is always good.

To those who have seen it, any comments?
 
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PreachOnBrotha

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RedStorm said:
This is an amazing film and I highly suggest everyone here check it out. I just saw it last night for the first time. For those who don\'t know, it\'s about the Algerian fight for independence from France in the 1950\'s in a sort of mock-documentary style film. It deals with the rise of the FLN and their tactics, and the French response to it (which includes placing the Algerians in \"ghettos\", bombing their villages, torture, and the use of propaganda). It was shot only 3 years after the conflict ended in Algiers and also features one of the FLN\'s leaders (Saadi Yacef) playing himself in the film.

I got the Criterion Collection version that has 2 extra discs with documentaries and interviews with those who were involved, which are really insightful. It\'s pretty much a mirror image of what\'s going on with the US in the Middle East right now.

Plus, Ennio Morricone did the musical score, which is always good.

To those who have seen it, any comments?
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2-0-Sixx

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May 13, 2002
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I've seen this movie twice. It's an amazing movie everyone should check out.

Interesting fact, before the invasion of the Iraq war, many of the Bush Administration, including Bush himself, watched this film as kind of a "what not to do" training film. Obviously they didn't pay close attention.

Early on in the Iraq War, "The Battle of Algiers," Gillo Pontecorvo's 1965 film about the urban guerrilla struggle between French troops and Algerian nationalists, was favored viewing at both the White House and Pentagon. More recently, Alistair Horne's A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962 has become the read of choice for many U.S. military officers serving in Iraq. In the wake of Abu Ghraib and Haditha, what lessons can be drawn from a French colonial war in North Africa, marked by an unholy marriage of revolutionary violence and state terror, occurring half a century ago? Savage War. source
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