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Gillo Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth (1992 Video)

Director

Oliver Curtis

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Film & television production

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Profiles the life of Italian film-maker Gillo Pontecorvo. David Puttnam and Edward Said discuss his influence on political cinema. Also contains an interview with Pontecorvo.

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Rome, Open City

Date

29 Oct 2014, 14:15

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Rome, Open City (Roma, città aperta ). GB. DVD. Arow Films. 103 minutes. £8 About the reviewer: Ron Guariento is a retired film and television producer and a lecturer at Newcastle University. Ron worked...

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Battle of Algiers, The (1965)

aka: Battaglia di Algeri, La

Director

Gillo Pontecorvo

Producer

Antonio Musi; Yacef Saadi

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £19.99

A realistic reconstruction of the fight for liberation in Algiers between 1954 and 1957, resulting in 1962 in a free Algerian state. The film was banned in France for fear of inciting civil unrest, but it...

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Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers

Date

5 Jan 2018, 14:20

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers: Past as Prologue by Sohail Daulatzai, (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), 104 pages, ISBN: 978-1517902384, £7.99 About the reviewer: Alan O’Leary is Professor...

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