Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo’s seminal 1965 political drama, which has inspired filmmakers for decades, appears on DVD for the first time in a comprehensive three-disc set. Shot in a gritty, ...

Politically passionate Italo helmer Gillo Pontecorvo, whose realistic re-construction of urban clashes between Algerian nationalists and French troops, “The Battle of Algiers,” became a ...

ROME - Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo, who directed the black-and-white classic The Battle of Algiers, has died in Rome at age 86, hospital officials said Friday. Pontecorvo died Thursday night, ...

Gillo Pontecorvo, born November 19, 1919 in Pisa and died October 12, 2006 in Rome, is an Italian filmmaker. Of Italian Jewish origin, Gillou Pontecorvo is the brother of Bruno Pontecorvo, a nuclear ...

Still from the trailer of The Battle of Algiers (1966) (screenshot via Rialto Pictures and YouTube) Italian neorealist film The Battle of Algiers has been a radicalizing text for more than 50 years.

“The Wide Blue Road,” the debut feature of the great Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo, is more than 40 years old, but its heart is the heart of a young lion named Yves Montand. The French star was ...

Is there anything left to say about "The Battle of Algiers"? ("Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound ...

Some civil war must have raged within director/co-writer Gillo Pontecorvo, between the revolutionary who chooses sides in this story of resistance, and the poet who has enough integrity not to ...

At 84, the Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo is being rediscovered by Americans. Pentagon officials, think-tank experts, journalists, and movie critics all agree that if you want to understand what ...