Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Algiers treats the rise and fall of the NLF from its genesis to the annihilation of its last leader in 1957. Pontecorvo uses the terrorist uprisings for a massive dramatic narrative centering on several NLF leaders and the French colonel who sets out to destroy them. He splits the film into episodes delineated by newsreel datelines; his camera has a journalist's preoccupation with showing all the action, which takes precedence over clean-cutting or attractive composition. But at no point is Algiers a documentary--even when the high-grain high-contrast film most resembles aged newsreel footage--and ultimately...
...nothing else but jolt the audience into realizing that complacency is synonymous with guilt in the minds of an oppressed people, it would be a stunning film on the level of Peter Watkins' The War Game. But acting, awe-inspiring recreation of detail, and stylistic integrity help Algiers rise above even the best propaganda, and leaves us with an overpowering feeling of humanity...
...Sanh grows steadily shabbier. More and more "hardbacks" (metal-roofed shacks) are tumbled by the incoming; day by day the protective sandbags and runway matting rise higher on bunkers. Even so, the bunkers cannot withstand direct hits. A rocket or mortar round will collapse a bunker and likely kill its occupants. The Seabees are finishing strong underground bunkers for the control-tower crew of Khe Sanh's airstrip and the evacuation hospital, rushing to complete the work before the threatened battle erupts. Meanwhile, the doctors must make do in cramped quarters: the operating room is an empty metal...
Americans who like to moan about the decline of U.S. theater and the rise of England's can point for proof to Broadway: no fewer than five of its current plays originated in London.* And more would seem to be on the way: London playgoers now have no fewer than 45 plays and musicals to view, compared with Broadway...
What seems more likely is that Munyon chose not to add to the activist forces, and that no list of lame excuses can serve to justify White's astounding rise in fortune...