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f history can remain unmoved in the slightest.
             The BATTLE OF ALGIERS was supposed to banned (somewhere) for many years. This early Algerian production is a gritty drama about the liberation of Algiers from the French. It's a fairly straightforward political thriller, and it's hard to tell why it was banned (perhaps for political reasons?). The only "objectionable" scenes are one or two depicting the torture of Algerian revolutionaries.
             Directed by Derek Jarman, with music by Coil. At this stage (way before Caravaggio), Jarman seems to be more interested in the interplay of light, color and sound than in creating any type of narrative structure. His human figures move through abstract and (treated) real landscapes, but their movement is usually "clippe
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