Re: [Marxism] Louis's review of battle of algiers

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Louis's review of the Battle of Algiers is excellent, a model of good
> research and good writing.  I hope mrzine can count on more of the same
> and not just from Louis.  Yoshie's pictorial accompaniments are remarkable.
>
> Michael Yates

Comrades might want to have a look at my reviews of "Khartoum", a film
based on the Mahdist revolt in the Sudan, and "Lawrence of Arabia":

http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/fascism_and_war/mahdism.htm

http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/culture/lawrence.htm

Basically I try to get into the background history of films dealing with
colonial revolts.

Over the next year or so, I plan to write about films based on the Thuggee
revolt in India in the 1830s. One is "Gunga Din" based on a Kipling tale,
with a screenplay co-written by William Faulkner! The other is Indiana
Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Also want to write about films dramatizing the battle of Little Big Horn.
And expand on things I have written about the movie "Zulu"
(http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/culture/zulu.htm). And more about the
sepoy revolt I just posted as depicted in "The Rising". Turns out that "The
Chess Players", Satyajit Ray's 1977 classic set in 1856 Lucknow, depicts
two chess-obsessed noblemen playing the game night and day while the
British take over their kingdoms.

I might even do something stupid and put all this together into a book
under the title "Colonialism and Resistance in Film" and present it to
people in the dead trees department.


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