Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

10

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 the Battle of Algiers through the eyes of five established and accomplished filmmakers; Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, Julian Schnabel and Mira Nair. They discuss how the shots, cinematography, set design, sound and editing directly influenced their own work and how the film's sequences look incredibly realistic, despite the claim that everything in the film was staged .

Similar movies

    Amour de vivreHitler's Disastrous Desert WarDavid Stratton: A Cinematic LifeFrançois Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie143 Sahara StreetMoudjahidateWoman of Courage - Louisa IghilahrizA Life for Movies: Lotte EisnerThe First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military OccupationThe Lives of Albert CamusAbd El-KaderTo Be Twenty in the AuresSawt EchaâbDawn of the DamnedRaï Story: From Cheikha Rimitti to Cheba DjenetThe CriticPretty Woman, un conte de fées hollywoodienMariner of the MountainsHearts and MindsTrue Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956