The Battle of Algiers
Byrnzie
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Anyone seen this movie? It's one of the greatest movies ever made. I saw it about ten years ago but just watched it again recently.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca3M2feqJk8
From Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Algiers
Download this torrent and watch the extras. The video of the American officials discussing the film is a real eye-opener as it shows just how blinkered and ignorant they are. They completely miss the point.
http://btjunkie.org/torrent/The-Battle- ... 629c5048ab
There are some very interesting parallels with what happened in Algeria to what's happening in the occupied Palestinian territories today.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca3M2feqJk8
From Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Algiers
Download this torrent and watch the extras. The video of the American officials discussing the film is a real eye-opener as it shows just how blinkered and ignorant they are. They completely miss the point.
http://btjunkie.org/torrent/The-Battle- ... 629c5048ab
There are some very interesting parallels with what happened in Algeria to what's happening in the occupied Palestinian territories today.
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'The film produced considerable political controversy in France and was banned there for five years. Scenes of torture were cut from the original American and British releases as they were seen as incendiary toward the French.'
If you watch the extras that are available with the Criterion edition of the dvd there's one interview with some U.S State Department officials in which they discuss the movie with regards to what can be learned from it in relation to the 'War on terror'. They completely miss the point of the movie. All three of the Americans take it as a given that the French had a right to colonize Algeria, and make no reference to French colonial violence. They imply that it goes without saying the French had a legitimate right to colonize and subjugate the Algerians, much the same way as they now see the Israeli's as having every right to subjugate and oppress the Palestinians. Their only concern is how to stop the violence of the colonized. The level of their ignorance and arrogance is really something.