Gillo Pontecorvo

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (…

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Pontecorvo is one of those Italian filmmakers marked for life by neorealism. He declares that he de…

A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmm…

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, we revisited our edit of the film…

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algi…

Homo Cinematographicus is a human species whose unit of measurement and point of reference is the c…

An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trai…

Gillo Pontecorvo, who directed the insurrectionary classic The Battle of Algiers in 1966, returns t…

Presented by the late literary critic Edward Said, this thirty-seven minute 1992 documentary reflec…

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian…

Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Li…