Film: Battle of Algiers

THE HILLSBOROUGH CLASSIC FILM SOCIETY will be showing “The Battle of Algiers” on Sunday, September 8, at 2pm at the Passmore Center in Hillsborough. Admission is free, but we urge you to register in advance if you can. Call the Center at 919 245-2015 or register at our website, hillsboroughclassicfilms.com. (While you’re there, consider signing up for the mailing list.)

“The Battle of Algiers” is about the uprising that led to the end of the French occupation of Algeria. It won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1966, and was nominated for three Academy Awards. A 2012 poll of top critics by Sight and Sound, the magazine of the British Film Institute, placed it in at number 48 in the list of the world’s 250 best films.