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Something to watch tonight: Friday 12 September

The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966)

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Dan Slevin
Sep 12, 2025
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Former paratrooper turned actor Jean Martin looks the part as the commander of the French colonial forces in The Battle of Algiers.

On this day in 2023, I posted another edition of one of my more quixotic projects — the attempt to watch all 50 of the 2022 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time list before the next list comes out in 2032.

The first few of these were published on the RNZ website but they decided last year that it wasn’t really working for them and I now send these up…

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