Gillo Pontecorvo Movies
- 1992
Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth5.71992HD
Presented by the late literary critic Edward Said, this thirty-seven minute 1992 documentary reflects on director Gillo Pontecorvo's youth and politic...
- 2004
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers7.22004HD
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, we revisited our edit of the film and interviews with director Gillo Pontecorvo and...
- 1946
Outcry
Outcry6.11946HD
A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.
- 1992
Return to Algiers
Return to Algiers51992HD
Gillo Pontecorvo, who directed the insurrectionary classic The Battle of Algiers in 1966, returns to the city of Algiers to view the progress Algeria...
- 2005
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker6.72005HD
A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.
- 2018
La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte
La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte102018HD
Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts from the fi...
- 2004
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers102004HD
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 t...
- 2007
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms102007HD
Pontecorvo is one of those Italian filmmakers marked for life by neorealism. He declares that he decided to do cinema after leaving a screening of "Pa...
- 1984
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer6.21984HD
A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.
- 1996
The Stupids
The Stupids4.71996HD
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
- 2009
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso02009HD
- 1957
The Wide Blue Road
The Wide Blue Road61957HD
Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against...
- 1998
Homo Cinematographicus
Homo Cinematographicus01998HD
Homo Cinematographicus is a human species whose unit of measurement and point of reference is the cinema and its derivative, television. Filmed at the...