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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Phil Bagnall, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode thrown in.

This time, Gillo Pontecorvo’s La battaglia di Algeri.

Unfolding primarily between November 1954 and December 1957, La battaglia di Algeri follows the chaos in the streets of Algiers as revolutionary nationalist forces struggle against the control of the French colonial forces.

At time of recording, it was not actually ranked on the Internet Movie Database, having dropped out between its selection as a film to be covered and the recording of the of the episode.

Show notes:

• Recorded 19th May 2018.
• La battaglia di Algeri at The Internet Movie Database.
• Read Phil’s reviews at Scannain.
• Roger Ebert discusses The Battle of Algiers as part of his Great Movies series, October 2004.
• Roger Ebert interviews Gillo Pontecorvo for The New York Times, April 1969.
• Nicolas Winding Refn discusses his biggest influences with The Dissolve, June 2015.
• Bosley Crowther at The New York Times discusses the premiere of The Battle of Algiers, September 1967.
• Mike D’Angelo at The A.V. Club discusses the complex legacy of The Battle of Algiers, October 2016.
• Alex von Tunzelmann discusses the historical accuracy of The Battle of Algiers at The Guardian, March 2009.
• Peter Matthews discusses the anti-colonialism of The Battle of Algiers at Criterion, August 2001.
• Derek Malcolm at The Guardian discusses the history and distribution of The Battle of Algiers, July 2000.
• Jonathan Kim at The Huffington Post on the screening of The Battle of Algiers for revolutionary and counter-revolutionary forces around the world, November 2009.
• Gillo Pontecorvo talks to The New York Times about the revival in interest around The Battle of Algiers, March 2004.
• Edith Evans Asbury at The New York Times on the screening of The Battle of Algiers at the trial of prominent Black Panthers, November 1970.
• Michael Ignatieff at The New York Times on the influence of The Battle of Algiers on modern terrorism, November 2004.
• Bilal Qureshi at NPR on how The Battle of Algiers relates to the modern world, October 2016.
• Ian Jack at The Guardian on the timelessness of The Battle of Algiers, July 2005.
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