The Battle of Algiers

“I’m looking for Battle of Algiers. Okay, probably my favorite movie of all time. It’s incredible how the story is told, how it’s shot, the sort of tension, the metronome of tension in this is almost insufferable. But I say that as a compliment.”

“Battle of Algiers, well you know I use the music from this often as a temp track. And you know, but the vitality of Pontecorvo's film, I mean it's a unique film, it's a unique political film. But vitality is extraordinary. I can remember being in little theaters in Los Angeles and I saw it a number of times and there'd be revolutionaries photographing off the screen how to create a revolution literally because these were revolutionary times. This was the primer for a lot of people.”

“Battle of Algiers, dude. Oh, it's too greedy, I want to take two, but I'm just going to take one because someone else wanted to see it also.”

“This film right here. Man, this film rocked my world. I saw this in film school. Damn. Battle of Algiers. You cannot say you are a film aficionado if you have not seen this film. You need to know about Battle of Algiers.”

“This is my favorite movie of all time I personally don't see a difference between documentary and fiction I think there are two paths to the same outcome of truth in film and this film proves it through Gillo Pontecorvo incidentally this film also premiered the New York Film Festival and now the inspection has closed in New York Film Festival so I have I've written about this film in schools many times and I love this film...”