“I spent a lot of time reviewing the silent films for crowd scenes –the way extras move, evolve, how the space is staged and how the cameras capture it, the views used,” Nolan said earlier this year when it came to the creation of his WWII epic Dunkirk, referencing films such as Intolerance, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, and Greed, as well as the films of Robert Bresson.
Throughout the entire month of July, if you’re in the U.K., you are lucky enough to witness a selection of these influences in a program at BFI Southbank. Featuring all screenings in 35mm or 70mm — including a preview of Dunkirk over a week before it hits theaters — there’s classics such as Greed, Sunrise, and The Wages of Fear, as well as Alien, Speed, and even Tony Scott’s final film.
Check out Nolan’s introduction below, followed by...
Throughout the entire month of July, if you’re in the U.K., you are lucky enough to witness a selection of these influences in a program at BFI Southbank. Featuring all screenings in 35mm or 70mm — including a preview of Dunkirk over a week before it hits theaters — there’s classics such as Greed, Sunrise, and The Wages of Fear, as well as Alien, Speed, and even Tony Scott’s final film.
Check out Nolan’s introduction below, followed by...
- 5/25/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Running from 1-31 July, BFI Southbank are delighted to present a season of films which have inspired director Christopher Nolan’s new feature Dunkirk (2017), released in cinemas across the UK on Friday 21 July.
Christopher Nolan Presents has been personally curated by the award-winning director and will offer audiences unique insight into the films which influenced his hotly anticipated take on one of the key moments of WWII.
The season will include a special preview screening of Dunkirk on Thursday 13 July, which will be presented in 70mm and include an introduction from the director himself.
Christopher Nolan is a passionate advocate for the importance of seeing films projected on film, and as one of the few cinemas in the UK that still shows a vast amount of celluloid film, BFI Southbank will screen all the films in the season on 35mm or 70mm.
In 2015 Nolan appeared on stage alongside visual artist...
Christopher Nolan Presents has been personally curated by the award-winning director and will offer audiences unique insight into the films which influenced his hotly anticipated take on one of the key moments of WWII.
The season will include a special preview screening of Dunkirk on Thursday 13 July, which will be presented in 70mm and include an introduction from the director himself.
Christopher Nolan is a passionate advocate for the importance of seeing films projected on film, and as one of the few cinemas in the UK that still shows a vast amount of celluloid film, BFI Southbank will screen all the films in the season on 35mm or 70mm.
In 2015 Nolan appeared on stage alongside visual artist...
- 5/24/2017
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
Another bad weekend where nothing really popped, which is bad news for a month at the box office where only Clint Eastwood’s Sully exceeded any expectations. Tim Burton’s new film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children came out just below my predictions with $29 million, but the Mark Wahlberg-Peter Berg disaster flick Deepwater Horizon was right around where I predicted with $20.2 million. The comedy Masterminds tanked with just $6.5 million for the weekend to end up in sixth place while Disney’s The Queen of Katwe did slightly better than predicted with $2.5 million.
The first full weekend in October has a good deal of competition from the release of the video game Mafia III to the...
This Past Weekend:
Another bad weekend where nothing really popped, which is bad news for a month at the box office where only Clint Eastwood’s Sully exceeded any expectations. Tim Burton’s new film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children came out just below my predictions with $29 million, but the Mark Wahlberg-Peter Berg disaster flick Deepwater Horizon was right around where I predicted with $20.2 million. The comedy Masterminds tanked with just $6.5 million for the weekend to end up in sixth place while Disney’s The Queen of Katwe did slightly better than predicted with $2.5 million.
The first full weekend in October has a good deal of competition from the release of the video game Mafia III to the...
- 10/5/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
"We must isolate and destroy them." Rialto Pictures has debuted a new trailer for the 50th anniversary 4K restored re-release of the 1966 classic war film The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. The film presents an accurate historical recreation of the three-year Battle of Algiers, chronicling the escalating terrorism and violence between French military forces and the Algerian independence movement, based on the memoirs of Saadi Yacef, a leader of the National Liberation Front. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1966, and ended up with three Academy Award nominations (for Best Foreign Film, Best Writing, Best Director) after its Us release. The cast includes Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Hadjadj and Samia Kerbash. Also playing at the Nyff before hitting theaters. See the new trailer below. Here's the new 4K re-release trailer for Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, from Rialto's YouTube: A...
- 9/18/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
It’s difficult to think of movies more influential for modern filmmaking than Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 feature The Battle of Algiers. A testament to just how visceral and immersive a cinematic experience can be, it’s no surprise that the drama about Algerian independence from France is one of Paul Greengrass‘ 10 favorite films as he further pushed a similar mode of docu-style thrills.
Recently undergoing a 4K restoration for its 50th anniversary, it’ll now be coming to theaters as it screens at Nyff and will be released by Rialto Pictures on October 7 at New York’s Film Forum, Landmark’s Nuart in Los Angeles, and E Street Cinema in Washington, D.C., followed by a major city roll-out through the fall. Ahead of the release, they’ve debuted a new trailer, which can be seen below, along with a poster.
Algiers, 1957: French paratroopers inch their way through the...
Recently undergoing a 4K restoration for its 50th anniversary, it’ll now be coming to theaters as it screens at Nyff and will be released by Rialto Pictures on October 7 at New York’s Film Forum, Landmark’s Nuart in Los Angeles, and E Street Cinema in Washington, D.C., followed by a major city roll-out through the fall. Ahead of the release, they’ve debuted a new trailer, which can be seen below, along with a poster.
Algiers, 1957: French paratroopers inch their way through the...
- 9/17/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the lineup for the Revivals section, taking place during the 54th New York Film Festival (Nyff). The Revivals section showcases masterpieces from renowned filmmakers whose diverse and eclectic works have been digitally remastered, restored, and preserved with the assistance of generous partners.
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Some of the films in the lineup include plenty of Nyff debuts returning once again: Gillo Pontecorvo’s “The Battle of Algiers,” which was the the Nyff Opening Night selection in 1967, Robert Bresson’s “L’argent,” and Barbara Kopple’s “Harlan County USA.” Also included are a program of Jacques Rivette’s early short films, Edward Yang’s second feature “Taipei Story,” Kenji Mizoguchi’s “Ugetsu,” and Marlon Brando’s solo directorial effort “One-Eyed Jacks.”
The Nyff previously announced three of the films screening...
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Some of the films in the lineup include plenty of Nyff debuts returning once again: Gillo Pontecorvo’s “The Battle of Algiers,” which was the the Nyff Opening Night selection in 1967, Robert Bresson’s “L’argent,” and Barbara Kopple’s “Harlan County USA.” Also included are a program of Jacques Rivette’s early short films, Edward Yang’s second feature “Taipei Story,” Kenji Mizoguchi’s “Ugetsu,” and Marlon Brando’s solo directorial effort “One-Eyed Jacks.”
The Nyff previously announced three of the films screening...
- 8/4/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
As much as we’re excited for the already enticing line-up for the 2016 New York Film Festival, their Revivals slate is always a place where one can discover a number of classics or revisit favorite films. This year is no different as they have newly restored films from Robert Bresson, Edward Yang, Jacques Rivette, Marlon Brando, Kenji Mizoguchi, and more. Check out the line-up below and return for our coverage this fall. If you don’t live in New York City, there’s a good chance a number of these restorations will travel in the coming months (or year) as well as get the home video treatment.
L’argent
Directed by Robert Bresson
1983, France, 83m
Robert Bresson’s final film, an adaptation of Tolstoy’s story The Forged Coupon, is simultaneously bleak and luminous, and sharp enough to cut diamonds. The story of a counterfeit bill’s passage from hand...
L’argent
Directed by Robert Bresson
1983, France, 83m
Robert Bresson’s final film, an adaptation of Tolstoy’s story The Forged Coupon, is simultaneously bleak and luminous, and sharp enough to cut diamonds. The story of a counterfeit bill’s passage from hand...
- 8/4/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 war film tells the turbulent story of the Algerian campaign for independence from France between the years of 1954 and 1962. It remains an incredibly powerful and engrossing depiction of insurgency, guerrilla warfare and hard-line retaliatory tactics used by a dominant colonial army.
In the nation’s capital Algiers, the fight of Algerian independence was led by the National Liberation Front (Fln) who resorted to increasingly devastating and shocking tactics to achieve their aims. They regularly assassinated policemen, officials and civilians, and spread fear throughout the city’s European populous with a string of deadly bombings. After their attacks, the Fln would then retreat back into the crowded Arabic area of the city called the Casbah and thus proved incredibly difficult to root out.
The French government’s reaction to the wave of violence was to severely clamp down on the Arab Algerians’ movements to and from the city...
In the nation’s capital Algiers, the fight of Algerian independence was led by the National Liberation Front (Fln) who resorted to increasingly devastating and shocking tactics to achieve their aims. They regularly assassinated policemen, officials and civilians, and spread fear throughout the city’s European populous with a string of deadly bombings. After their attacks, the Fln would then retreat back into the crowded Arabic area of the city called the Casbah and thus proved incredibly difficult to root out.
The French government’s reaction to the wave of violence was to severely clamp down on the Arab Algerians’ movements to and from the city...
- 7/6/2012
- by Rob Keeling
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Time is an annoying thing, it ticks away, aging us all and leaving behind things we meant to do, but never got around to. This is a statement that can be related to just about anything in our short lives, but in this case it happens to be my opening for a large batch of Criterion Collection Blu-rays I, shamefully, never got around to fully reviewing after mentioning them in my weekly DVD and Blu-ray columns. For some of you that is enough, for others you would like more, this is my attempt to clean off the shelves and start anew.
Let's get started...
Diabolique
Thanks to my trip to the Cannes Film Festival I got so backed up with my Criterion reviews I was never able to recover, so I'm heading as far back as May 17, when Criterion issued brand new DVD and Blu-ray editions of Henri-Georges Clouzot's Diabolique,...
Let's get started...
Diabolique
Thanks to my trip to the Cannes Film Festival I got so backed up with my Criterion reviews I was never able to recover, so I'm heading as far back as May 17, when Criterion issued brand new DVD and Blu-ray editions of Henri-Georges Clouzot's Diabolique,...
- 8/23/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Chicago – Criterion Blu-rays are beautiful enough that when one arrives that’s two discs, you know it’s something special. Very few films have warranted a multi-disc treatment from the most important home video company in history but very few films are as influential or as widely-regarded as “The Battle of Algiers,” the latest work given the upgrade from standard Criterion DVD to Blu-ray.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
Using film as a commentary and critique of what were still-fresh wounds in Europe and North Africa, Gillo Pontecorvo’s film documents the Algerian War of the ’50s and early ’60s. Released in 1966, the stunningly-photographed work focuses on the evolution or a revolution and the colonial powers that stamped it out. The film is widely-regarded as a masterpiece, especially in the U.K. and the rest of Europe. It is an essential landmark in the use of current events for dramatic purpose in film.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
Using film as a commentary and critique of what were still-fresh wounds in Europe and North Africa, Gillo Pontecorvo’s film documents the Algerian War of the ’50s and early ’60s. Released in 1966, the stunningly-photographed work focuses on the evolution or a revolution and the colonial powers that stamped it out. The film is widely-regarded as a masterpiece, especially in the U.K. and the rest of Europe. It is an essential landmark in the use of current events for dramatic purpose in film.
- 8/16/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Hitting movie theaters this weekend:
30 Minutes Or Less - Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson
Final Destination 5 - Nicholas D’Agosto, Emma Bell, Arlen Escarpeta
The Help - Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer
Movie of the Week
30 Minutes Or Less
The Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson
The Plot: Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy (Eisenberg).
The Buzz: Sure, this isn’t typical fare for #1 at the box office, and it’ll be lucky to strike it rich, but 30 Minutes Or Less has got a lot going for it. Helmed by director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) and starring Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Zombieland), this film should garner a lot of (possibly) warranted attention. This is Michael Diliberti’s first screenplay, so that’s scary territory, but based on the trailer, the film looks to have good writing and an interesting/funny story to tell. The...
30 Minutes Or Less - Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson
Final Destination 5 - Nicholas D’Agosto, Emma Bell, Arlen Escarpeta
The Help - Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer
Movie of the Week
30 Minutes Or Less
The Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson
The Plot: Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy (Eisenberg).
The Buzz: Sure, this isn’t typical fare for #1 at the box office, and it’ll be lucky to strike it rich, but 30 Minutes Or Less has got a lot going for it. Helmed by director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) and starring Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Zombieland), this film should garner a lot of (possibly) warranted attention. This is Michael Diliberti’s first screenplay, so that’s scary territory, but based on the trailer, the film looks to have good writing and an interesting/funny story to tell. The...
- 8/10/2011
- by Aaron Ruffcorn
- The Scorecard Review
Rank the week of August 9th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time: New Releases Paul
(DVD & Blu-ray | R | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #764
Win Percentage: 55%
Times Ranked: 7626
Top-20 Rankings: 22
Directed By: Greg Mottola
Starring: Simon Pegg • Nick Frost • Seth Rogen • Jane Lynch • Sigourney Weaver
Genres: Adventure • Comedy • Road Movie • Science Fiction • Sci-Fi Comedy • Adventure Comedy
Rank This Movie
Super
(DVD & Blu-ray | R | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #2200
Win Percentage: 54%
Times Ranked: 2471
Top-20 Rankings: 11
Directed By: James Gunn
Starring: Rainn Wilson • Ellen Page • Liv Tyler • Kevin Bacon • Michael Rooker
Genres: Action • Action Comedy • Black Comedy • Comedy • Comedy Drama • Comic-Book Superhero Film • Drama • Satire • Based-on-Comics
Rank This Movie
Jumping The Broom
(DVD & Blu-ray | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #16475
Win Percentage: 32%
Times Ranked: 46
Top-20 Rankings: 2
Directed By: Salim Akil
Starring: Angela Bassett • Paula Patton • Meagan Good • Laz Alonso • Julie Bowen
Genres: Comedy • Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy • Drama
Rank This Movie
Your Highness
(DVD & Blu-ray | R...
(DVD & Blu-ray | R | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #764
Win Percentage: 55%
Times Ranked: 7626
Top-20 Rankings: 22
Directed By: Greg Mottola
Starring: Simon Pegg • Nick Frost • Seth Rogen • Jane Lynch • Sigourney Weaver
Genres: Adventure • Comedy • Road Movie • Science Fiction • Sci-Fi Comedy • Adventure Comedy
Rank This Movie
Super
(DVD & Blu-ray | R | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #2200
Win Percentage: 54%
Times Ranked: 2471
Top-20 Rankings: 11
Directed By: James Gunn
Starring: Rainn Wilson • Ellen Page • Liv Tyler • Kevin Bacon • Michael Rooker
Genres: Action • Action Comedy • Black Comedy • Comedy • Comedy Drama • Comic-Book Superhero Film • Drama • Satire • Based-on-Comics
Rank This Movie
Jumping The Broom
(DVD & Blu-ray | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #16475
Win Percentage: 32%
Times Ranked: 46
Top-20 Rankings: 2
Directed By: Salim Akil
Starring: Angela Bassett • Paula Patton • Meagan Good • Laz Alonso • Julie Bowen
Genres: Comedy • Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy • Drama
Rank This Movie
Your Highness
(DVD & Blu-ray | R...
- 8/9/2011
- by Jonathan Hardesty
- Flickchart
Your Weekly Source for the Newest Releases to Blu-Ray Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
The Battle Of Algiers: The Criterion Collection (1966)
Synopsis: One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafe’s, and French soldiers resort to torture to break the will of the insurgents. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques used to combat them. Pontecorvo’s tour de force has astonishing relevance today. (criterion.com)
Special Features:
High-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Marcello Gatti (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition). Gillo Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth,...
The Battle Of Algiers: The Criterion Collection (1966)
Synopsis: One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafe’s, and French soldiers resort to torture to break the will of the insurgents. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques used to combat them. Pontecorvo’s tour de force has astonishing relevance today. (criterion.com)
Special Features:
High-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Marcello Gatti (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition). Gillo Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth,...
- 8/8/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit Josephine Baker, Abbas Kiarostami, The Band's Visit, The Battle Of Algiers: Arabs & Muslims on TCM Schedule (Et) and synopses from the TCM website: 8:00 Pm Princess Tam Tam (1935) A French novelist passes off a Tunisian shepherdess as royalty to get back at his cheating wife. Dir: Max Montagu Cast: Josephine Baker, Albert Prejean, Germaine Aussey. Bw-77 mins 9:30 Pm The Band's Visit (2007) An Egyptian police band gets lost in Israel. Dir: Eran Kolirin Cast: Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Natour, Ronit Elkabetz. C-87 mins Letterbox Format 11:15 Pm Rana's Wedding (2003) When her father orders her to marry, a Palestinian girl searches for her lover in occupied Jerusalem. Dir: Hany Abu-Assad Cast: Ismael Dabbagh, Clara Khoury, Khalifa Natour. C-86 mins Letterbox Format 1:00 Am The Battle Of Algiers (1967) Algiers revolts against the French Foreign Legion. Dir: Gillo Pontecorvo Cast: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag. Bw-...
- 7/29/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Hailed as one of the most influential political films ever made, Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo’s classic 1965 war drama The Battle of Algiers gets the Blu-ray treatment from Criterion on Aug. 9.
The two-disc Blu-ray carries the list price of $49.95.
The Battle of Algiers (1965), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
The Battle of Algiers re-creates a key year in the tumultuous French-Algerian War. Wherein Algeria struggled for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style as violence escalates on both sides, the movie clicks as an examination of modern warfare, with its then-radical terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques used to combat them.
Filled with shocking images of children shoot soldiers at point-blank range and French soldiers torturing captured Algerians to break their will, The Battle of Algiers has a whole lot of relevance in today’s tense world.
This Blu-ray edition features a...
The two-disc Blu-ray carries the list price of $49.95.
The Battle of Algiers (1965), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
The Battle of Algiers re-creates a key year in the tumultuous French-Algerian War. Wherein Algeria struggled for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style as violence escalates on both sides, the movie clicks as an examination of modern warfare, with its then-radical terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques used to combat them.
Filled with shocking images of children shoot soldiers at point-blank range and French soldiers torturing captured Algerians to break their will, The Battle of Algiers has a whole lot of relevance in today’s tense world.
This Blu-ray edition features a...
- 5/27/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
It’s so strange, writing this so long after the announcement yesterday. In today’s internet world of instant information, and twenty four second news cycles, yesterday’s August 2011 Criterion Collection new releases may as well have happened last week, or last month. I’m sure that the page views for this post will be markedly smaller than the usual, as I have tried consistently to have the new release post up within minutes of the pages going live on Criterion’s website. I know this all sounds like inside baseball stuff, but it’s on my mind, and darn it, this is my website.
I had a whole, several paragraph long, write up of the August titles, but since I’m finding myself writing this at 10pm on Tuesday evening, I think it’s better if I just scrap that whole thing and start over. I was going on...
I had a whole, several paragraph long, write up of the August titles, but since I’m finding myself writing this at 10pm on Tuesday evening, I think it’s better if I just scrap that whole thing and start over. I was going on...
- 5/18/2011
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
Rachid Bouchareb offers a gripping insight into the Algerian independence struggle through the lives of three brothers
The still highly controversial colonial war that France fought in Algeria from the mid-1950s until the granting of independence in 1962 has only been patchily reflected in the cinema. It figures significantly in the background in films as different as Alain Resnais' Muriel and Michael Haneke's Hidden, and in 1966 there was Lost Command, a Hollywood version of Jean Lartéguy's French bestseller The Centurions about a battalion of Indo-China veterans reassembling for another bitter colonial conflict in Algeria. The only truly memorable movie is the Marxist The Battle of Algiers (1966), set in the early days of the revolution, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and initiated by Yacef Saadi, a leader of the Fln (National Liberation Front). Banned in France for several years and regarded as one of the greatest political movies ever made,...
The still highly controversial colonial war that France fought in Algeria from the mid-1950s until the granting of independence in 1962 has only been patchily reflected in the cinema. It figures significantly in the background in films as different as Alain Resnais' Muriel and Michael Haneke's Hidden, and in 1966 there was Lost Command, a Hollywood version of Jean Lartéguy's French bestseller The Centurions about a battalion of Indo-China veterans reassembling for another bitter colonial conflict in Algeria. The only truly memorable movie is the Marxist The Battle of Algiers (1966), set in the early days of the revolution, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and initiated by Yacef Saadi, a leader of the Fln (National Liberation Front). Banned in France for several years and regarded as one of the greatest political movies ever made,...
- 5/7/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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