We watched La Bataille d'Alger last night after learning about it in One Battle After Another. I think that might be one of the best movie I have ever seen. #theCinema
The fact that such a famous film was not known to someone who is into film as much as you seem to be is making me wonder if its existence is still being (soft) suppressed in France.
It's surprising, event to me, that I haven't come across it before, but I wouldn't attribute this to sensorship, I probably had loads of opportunities to watch it and didn't, I simply haven't seen many of these famous classics.
I've watched Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane and Battle Of Algier, all for the first time within the past 3 months.
I mean I haven't seen La Bataille d'Alger yet either, but I heard about it in many discussions. And since I saw you talk about film regularly and your kind of interests I figured that someone would have brought it to your attention by now.
But then again, the wiki page says it got a lot of extra attention in the mid-2000s during the War on Terror, which happens to be when I was in art school and worked at a video store. So maybe I'm overestimating how famous it is.
@vanderZwan working in a video store probably put you in proximity to a lot of great movies! I tend to just find a director I like, and watch everything by them, and then move on to a director that they like, and so on.
@vanderZwan If you dig Bataille, you might be into Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc - often cited as a classic. To my eye, Pontecorvo and Dreyer are asking some similar questions about the boundaries of fiction on film, and... admittedly about how low you can shoot, which makes Welles a 'hold my drink'-level feat in both of those respects, ha.
i just watched this recently with a friend and it was really good! we snuck it in between some costa-gavras movies so it felt like a little private film festival
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The fact that such a famous film was not known to someone who is into film as much as you seem to be is making me wonder if its existence is still being (soft) suppressed in France.
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in reply to Job • • •It's surprising, event to me, that I haven't come across it before, but I wouldn't attribute this to sensorship, I probably had loads of opportunities to watch it and didn't, I simply haven't seen many of these famous classics.
I've watched Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane and Battle Of Algier, all for the first time within the past 3 months.
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But then again, the wiki page says it got a lot of extra attention in the mid-2000s during the War on Terror, which happens to be when I was in art school and worked at a video store. So maybe I'm overestimating how famous it is.
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