Word: gillo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communist ticket. Former EEC Commissioner Altiero Spinelli and all six of the prominent Roman Catholic laymen (plus a Waldensian priest), who defied Pope Paul VI by running under the sign of the hammer and sickle, also won seats in Parliament. Narrowly defeated, however, was Communist-sponsored Independent Gillo Pontecorvo, the film director whose credits include The Battle of Algiers...
Burn. Why did this film bomb so miserably when it came out in 1970? Whatever picture companies and elements of the people are responsible for this sure acted like terminal morons. Made by Gillo Pontecorvo, who created Battle of Algiers. Starring Marlon Brando as a British secret agent. Filmed in color in the Caribbean with hundreds of extras. About Dutch (or Portugese--can't remember) colonialism and revolt in the 19th century. And very, very fine...
...most moving revolutionary film I've ever seen (which would be true) because maybe if I saw it now the emotional impact would make me suspicious that it evades important political issues. I do remember that it accounts for some of the tearing moral ambiguities of that struggle. But Gillo Pontocorvo's Algiers reminds that on an important level the 'complexities' don't matter. When the wailing city is such a resonant setting for collective, almost subconsciously-communicated solidarity, it's the heart, rather than the political head, that never forgets the statement...
...Burn. Gillo Pontecorso of Battle of Algiers fame directed this Marxist-Fanonian Parable of revolution on a Portuguese-colonized island in the Caribbean in the mid nineteenth century. The story cluntsily parallels Vietnam, the Phillipines, et al., but Marlon Brando gives a superb performance as a British mercenary agent provocateur, and the direction is sensuously beautiful. With Vlva Zapsta. Elia Kazan's exciting but absurd film of a John Steinbeck script, full of take feeling for the Mexican little guy. Still, there's a young, dynamic Brando as Emiliano, and Anthony Quinn as his brother. ORSON WELLES CINEMA ONE. Call...
Kapo (Battle of Algiers), by Gillo Pontecorvo. Lowell dining hall. 7:30, 10, March...