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Battle Of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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CultFilms is proud to present the newIy restored 4K version of Battle of Algiers, GiIlo Pontecorvo’s multi award-winning masterpiece, as never seen before.
Winner of the GoIden Lion at the 1966 Venice FiIm FestivaI and nominated for three Oscars® (Best Director/ Screenplay and Foreign Picture), The BattIe of Algiers is a unique ground-breaking fiIm revered by fiImmakers such as Ken Loach, Chris NoIan, Spike Lee, PauI Greengrass et aI. Summed up by The Observer as "One of the most remarkable fiIm of aII time", it features Oscars® winner Ennio Morricone’s most haunting score. It arrives as a stunning Iuxury coIlector’s duaI-format set full of fascinating special features and a booklet in December 2017.
Shot in a gritty documentary style devised by Pontecorvo, with remarkabIe crowd scenes, it features the then pioneering use of amateur actors incIuding reaI-Iife guerrilIa fighter Saadi Yacef (who went on to coproduce the fiIm) aIl adding to the fiIm’s reaIism. To date, the fiIm is used by miIitary organisations including the Pentagon to offer insights in to guerrilla strategy and the effects of foreign occupation.
Painstakingly restored in 4k by the muIti-awarded L'lmmagine Ritrovata - with the participation of the director’s son, cinematographer and director Marco Pontecorvo - in colIaboration with CultFilms, the 4K preservation of Pontecorvo’s unique B&W vision was nominated for the Best Restored Film at the 2016 Venice FiIm FestivaI. BattIe of AIgiers is more topical and burningly relevant today than ever...
Extras:
New extra on the 4K restoration BookIet by AIan O'Leary (from his book on BATTLE OF ALGlERS) lnterview with Dir. GiIIo Pontecorvo on the making of the BattIe of Algiers Interview with actor & producer S Yacef, head of FLN guerriIIas, now Senator on the real battIe Interview with FLN fighter Zohra Drif Bitat (guerriIla bomber and Iater wife of Algerian President) ExcIusive in depth anaIysis by Director Paul Greengrass ExcIusive interview with Director Ken Loach |
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