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  1. Arts & Letters
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    Film: French Lesson (Review)
    Steve Sailer
    The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film), by Gillo Pontecorvo
    1. The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film) by Gillo Pontecorvo
    The American Conservative, February 2, 2004, p. 23
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    Movies: The Academy Looks Abroad (Review)
    Arthur Knight
    The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film), by Gillo Pontecorvo
    1. The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film) by Gillo Pontecorvo
    The Saturday Review, April 22, 1967, p. 75
  3. [+]
    Films (Review)
    Harold Clurman
    The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film), by Gillo Pontecorvo
    1. The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film) by Gillo Pontecorvo
    The Nation, October 9, 1967, p. 348
  4. Currents
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    Film: Revolution Now (And Then)! (Review)
    J. Hoberman
    The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film), by Gillo Pontecorvo
    1. The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film) by Gillo Pontecorvo
    The American Prospect, January 2004, pp. 63-64
  5. [+]
    The Screen: So Long as the Festival (2 Reviews)
    Philip T. Hartung
    The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film), by Gillo Pontecorvo
    1. The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film) by Gillo Pontecorvo
    2. Far from Vietnam (1967 Film) by Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Joris Ivens, and William Klein, ...
    Commonweal, October 20, 1967, p. 87
  6. Books & the Arts
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    Films: Major Mysteries (2 Reviews)
    Stanley Kauffmann
    Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003 Film), by Peter Webber
    1. Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003 Film) by Peter Webber
    2. The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film) by Gillo Pontecorvo
    The New Republic, February 2, 2004, p. 22
  7. [+]
    Films: Recent Wars (2 Reviews)
    Stanley Kauffmann
    The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film), by Gillo Pontecorvo
    1. The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film) by Gillo Pontecorvo
    2. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967 Film) by Stanley Kramer
    The New Republic, December 16, 1967, p. 19
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    The Current Cinema (3 Reviews)
    Brendan Gill
    Truthtelling
    1. The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film) by Gillo Pontecorvo
    2. The Tiger Makes Out (1967 Film) by Murray Schisgal
    3. Games (1967 Film) by Curtis Harrington
    The New Yorker, September 23, 1967, pp. 93-95
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    The Current Cinema (4 Reviews)
    Pauline Kael
    Politics and Thrills
    1. Sacco and Vanzetti (1971 Film) by Giuliano Montaldo
    2. Executive Action (1973 Film) by David Miller
    3. The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film) by Gillo Pontecorvo
    4. State of Siege (1972 Film) by Constantin Costa-Gavras
    The New Yorker, November 19, 1973, pp. 236-245
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    Performing Arts---New Films (5 Reviews)
    Robert Kotlowitz
    Adultery, Murder, and a Big Revolution
    1. Hugs and Kisses (1967 Film) by Jonas Cornell
    2. Elvira Madigan (1967 Film) by Bo Widerberg
    3. The Rise of Louis XIV (1966 Film) by Roberto Rossellini
    4. Young Torless (1968 Film) by Volker Schlondorff
    5. The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film) by Gillo Pontecorvo
    The Harpers Monthly, December 1967, pp. 130-133
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    In Search of North Africa (6 Reviews)
    Clifford Geertz
    Saints of the Atlas, by Ernest Gellner
    1. Saints of the Atlas by Ernest Gellner
    2. Revolution and Political Leadership by William B. Quandt
    3. Wolves in the City by Paul Henissart
    4. The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film) by Gillo Pontecorvo
    5. Change at Shebika by Jean Duvignaud
    6. Ramparts of Clay (1971 Film) by Jean-Louis Bertucelli
    The New York Review of Books, April 22, 1971, pp. 20-23
  12. Movies
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    Counter Cultural Programming: Burn Hollywood, burn (47 Reviews)
    Michael Atkinson
    50 flicks to get you fighting
    1. Zero for Conduct (1947 Film) by Jean Vigo
    2. It's a Wonderful Life (1946 Film) by Frank Capra
    3. Salt of the Earth (1954 Film) by Herbert J. Biberman
    4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 Film) by Don Siegel
    5. Paths of Glory (1957 Film) by Stanley Kubrick
    6. The Manchurian Candidate (1962 Film) by John Frankenheimer
    7. Lawrence of Arabia (1962 Film) by David Lean
    8. Les Carabiniers (1963 Film) by Jean-Luc Godard
    9. The Battle of Algiers (1966 Film) by Gillo Pontecorvo
    10. Greetings (1968 Film) by Brian De Palma
    11. Punishment Park (1971 Film) by Peter Watkins
    12. The Candidate (1972 Film) by Michael Ritchie
    13. State of Siege (1972 Film) by Constantin Costa-Gavras
    14. The Parallax View (1974 Film) by Alan J. Pakula
    15. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 Film) by Tobe Hooper
    16. Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976 Film) by Barbara Kopple
    17. Network (1976 Film) by Sidney Lumet
    18. All the President's Men (1976 Film) by Alan J. Pakula
    19. Apocalypse Now (1979 Film) by Francis Ford Coppola
    20. Winter Kills (1979 Film) by William Richert
    21. Reds (1981 Film) by Warren Beatty
    22. The Killing Fields (1984 Film) by Roland Joffe
    23. Salvador (1986 Film) by Oliver Stone
    24. Walker (1987 Film) by Alex Cox
    25. Roger and Me (1989 Film) by Michael Moore
    26. The Handmaid's Tale (1990 Film) by Volker Schlondorff
    27. JFK (1991 Film) by Oliver Stone
    28. Thelma and Louise (1991 Film) by Ridley Scott
    29. Panama Deception (1992 Film) by Barbara Trent and David Kasper
    30. Bob Roberts (1992 Film) by Tim Robbins
    31. Lessons of Darkness (1971 Film) by Werner Herzog
    32. Land and Freedom (1996 Film) by Ken Loach
    33. Wag the Dog (1997 Film) by Barry Levinson
    34. Starship Troopers (1997 Film) by Paul Verhoeven
    35. Bulworth (1998 Film) by Warren Beatty
    36. The Thin Red Line (1998 Film) by Terrence Malick
    37. Pleasantville (1998 Film) by Gary Ross
    38. Three Kings (1999 Film) by David O. Russell
    39. Time for Drunken Horses (2000 Film) by Bahman Ghobadi
    40. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000 Film) by Peter Watkins
    41. Kandahar (2001 Film) by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
    42. Bloody Sunday (2002 Film) by Paul Greengrass
    43. Power and Terror - Noam Chomsky in Our Times (2002 Film) by John Junkerman
    44. Bowling for Columbine (2002 Film) by Michael Moore
    45. The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002 Film) by Eugene Jarecki
    46. In This World (2002 Film) by Michael Winterbottom
    47. The Fog of War (2003 Film) by Errol Morris
    In These Times, May 31, 2004, pp. 24-25