BÚSQUEDA
Presented by the late literary critic Edward Said, this thirty-seven minute 1992 documentary reflects on director Gillo Pontecorvo's youth and...
Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, we revisited our edit of the film and interviews with director Gillo Pontecorvo and...
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.
Outcry
Gillo Pontecorvo, who directed the insurrectionary classic The Battle of Algiers in 1966, returns to the city of Algiers to view the progress Algeria...
Return to Algiers
A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts...
La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte
This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at...
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
Pontecorvo is one of those Italian filmmakers marked for life by neorealism. He declares that he decided to do cinema after leaving a screening of...
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
The Stupids
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò...
The Wide Blue Road
Homo Cinematographicus is a human species whose unit of measurement and point of reference is the cinema and its derivative, television. Filmed at...
Homo Cinematographicus