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The Battle of Algiers
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Sunday Feb 3, 2008 (7 & 9:30pm)
Monday Feb 4, 2008 (7 & 9:30pm)
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$8.50
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Still one of the most incendiary political films ever made, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers now seems as prescient for its brazen mix of documentary technique and dramatic effect as for its lucid rendition of occupation warfare. The film was screened for military personnel a few months into the Iraq War, a sure sign of its persistent currency. Pontecorvo plays with fire in the way he tempts us to cheer those famous scenes of Algerian guerillas bombing French cafés, but if The Battle of Algiers is provocative, it's hardly the diatribe overly sympathetic audiences have made it out to be — instead call it a strikingly cinematic ballad of the times.
