Ennio Morricone: a composer with a thrilling ability to hit the emotional jugular
Peter Bradshaw
With his brilliant, haunting scores for Sergio Leone, Quentin Tarantino and dozens more, Morricone was the master of film music
June 2010
Algeria prepare for World Cup battle by watching The Battle of Algiers
Footballers aim to draw on spirit of Gillo Pontecorvo's revolutionary classic ahead of tonight's match with England
March 2009
Reel history
The Battle of Algiers: a masterpiece of historical accuracy
Alex von Tunzelmann: Historical films don't come much more authentic than this – Gillo Pontecorvo's unforgettable drama even uses real-life veterans of the conflict to illuminate an ignominious period in French colonial history
May 2007
Battle of Algiers
Philip French: A brilliant, openly partisan yet fair-minded account of the early stages of the Algerian war of liberation.
In cinemas this weekend
28 Weeks Later | The Night Of The Sunflowers | The Battle Of Algiers | My Best Friend | Goodbye Bafana | Blue Blood | Like Minds | The All Together
The Battle of Algiers
Peter Bradshaw: It is of its time in many ways, yet somehow more extreme, and more contemporary, than anything else around.
October 2006
Gillo Pontecorvo obituary
Obituary: Italian director best known for The Battle of Algiers, a classic work on the struggle for liberation from the French.
February 2006
Philip French's DVD club
The Battle of Algiers
Philip French: One of the greatest, most controversial of political movies ... it has a documentary immediacy, but though politically committed, it neither demonises the French colonists nor sanctifies the Algerian revolutionaries.
November 2003
The Battle of Algiers
, DVD, Argent Films Cert 15
July 2001
Lights, camera, protest...
Last weekend, 52 Italian filmmakers, including the 81-year-old director of The Battle of Algiers, took to Genoa's streets, with the camera as their only weapon
February 2001
Video releases
The Living Daylights | License to Kill | The Thin Blue Line | The Battle of Algiers | Kind Hearts and Coronets
July 2000
Derek Malcolm's century of film
Gillo Pontecorvo: The Battle of Algiers
Derek Malcolm's 100 greatest movies. This week, number 77: Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers.
