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Pontecorvo's battle.(Film)(Critical Essay)

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| June 01, 2004 | McDonald, Neil | COPYRIGHT 2004 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

LAST AUGUST the Pentagon's Special Operations Chief screened an important film. The flier described the plot:

 
   How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the 
   war of ideas. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank 
   range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon 
   the entire Arab population builds to a mad 
   fervour.

No, this was not the latest attack on the war in Iraq by Michael Moore or our own David Bradbury. It was Gillo Pontecorvo's 1965 classic The Battle of Algiers, a film that is even more relevant with its release this month by the AFI in Australia than when screened at the Pentagon. Indeed, the film has so many lessons for the present that ...

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