Casbah

Since its release in 1966, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers has divided critical opinion. The film which depicts the Algerian struggle for independence against French colonial power, was awarded the Lion d'Or at the 1966 Venice Film Festival. Yet, despite this acclaim, the inherently controversial film was banned in France until 1971 due to its graphic portrayal of torture and repression during the Algerian war. The politically engaged director had however sought to make The Battle of Algiers

Since its release in 1966, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers has divided critical opinion. The film which depicts the Algerian struggle for independence, was awarded the Lion d'Or at the 1966 Venice Film Festival and nominated a year later for an Oscar as Best Foreign Film. Despite this acclaim, the inherently controversial film was banned in France until 1971 due to its graphic portrayal of torture and repression during the war. Heavily influenced by the distinctive film style Neorealism

The 1966 film Battle of Algiers is an artful depiction of what occurred during arguably the most important time in the Algerian War for independence. Gillo Pontecorvo’s work shows many aspects of the battle, from both the colonial and FLN perspectives. It underlines much of the violence and underhanded tactics that both sides employed for their own gain. While Albert Hourani gives a brief overview of the whole Algerian War for independence in his book, A History of the Arab Peoples, Pontecorvo’s

The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, was released in 1967 and is a documentary regarding the post-war struggle of Algerian Nationalists to free themselves from French rule and the cruelty of the French to maintain their state of affairs. Between 1960 and 1970, there was a transition of black and white to color television broadcast worldwide and most directors showed their film in color; however, Pontecorvo keeps the black and white theme to enhance the documentary formulating a realistic

Algeria’s Bloody Independence The rise of the era of the nation state brought along an abundance of violent bloodshed and war as countries fought for their independence from Empires that had ruled them for years. This is especially true for Algeria, a country that had been without independence for over a century. The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo illustrates the struggle that Algerians underwent in an effort to gain independence from France. The film perfectly captures

The Battle of Algiers, European live in European Quarter and Muslim live in Casbah. They live in the same country, but they have two different lifestyles in that film. Algerian live in a ghetto place and they work hard every day. There are many fancy store located in European Quarter. They dance, drink, laugh and enjoy themselves. When the French government wants to give the Algerian a lesson, they sneak in to the Casbah and bomb them. Many Algerian were buried under collapse building. When the children’s

Katherine Dunham, an African American dancer from Chicago Illinois had a very successful dance career in American and European theatre in the 20th century. Dunham was a choreographer as well as a dancer. She directed her own dance company for many years before she died May 2006. Dunham was known as the “matriarch and queen mother of black dance” meaning that she was the “head” or “leader” of black dance. Her works and pieces all showed similarity and differences throughout the time in which they

The Clash: Westway to the World, directed by Don Letts, was produced, and released in the year 2000. This film is a documentary style production, and follows the path of “The Clash” as they began, and tells their story through 1983, recording a very successful run of music. Stylistically, the film makes use of original film that was recorded by the band, as well as interviews of the band members in the year 2000, specifically for the movie. In total, these interviews are done by critical performers

Each of the men in the cause contributed in their own way, and they reach a common goal for justice. Many innocents on both sides had died because they had the misfortune to get caught up in this war, The author of Beneath a Sky of Porphyry hoped that this would draw attention to the war in Algeria in hopes that something like this would never happen again. In the cinematic analysis that preceded over the Algerian struggle for their independence from France exposed the ambiguous nature of Western

In a street he is met by a kid with a note from one of the leaders of the resistance. The note tells that La Pointe needs to kill a police man who talks with an informant in the Casbah, the old Arab district. He will be provided a gun by a woman in the street. When Ali confronts the officer in the street the revolver he was given had no bullets. Ali was set up. Instead of shooting the officer, Ali beats him up and flees the