Former staff writer Randall Roberts covered Los Angeles music culture for the Los Angeles Times. He had served various roles since arriving at The Times in 2010, including music editor and pop ...

Critic at large John Powers reviews The Battle of Algiers about the Algerian struggle for independence from the French in the '50s and '60s. The film was made nearly 40 years ago, and has a score ...

2. “The Battle of Algiers” (La Battaglia di Algeri) (1966). Opening with snapping snare drums that suggest a march into war, Morricone moved away from westerns for this drama about a rebellion ...

Half a century after its debut, The Battle of Algiers has a permanent parking spot in the film canon. After taking home the Golden Lion at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, it was nominated for three ...

The greatness of "The Battle of Algiers" lies in its ability to embrace moral ambiguity without succumbing to it. And although Pontecorvo has been rightfully lionized for the realism of the film ...

Some civil war must have raged within director/co-writer Gillo Pontecorvo, between the revolutionary who chooses sides in this story of resistance, and the poet who has enough integrity not to ...

A distinctive melodist, Morricone proved himself equally adept at rhythm, whose possibilities imbued the images with energy and portent, as in the sequence from The Battle of Algiers where a group ...

The Battle Of Algiers, lobby card, Jean Martin, 1965. Photo by LMPC via Getty Images. One of the most extraordinary films ever made, The Battle of Algiers is an emotionally devastating account of ...

Morricone, who created the ... “The Battle of Algiers” by Gillo Pontecorvo and “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso,” a nostalgic ode to the importance of movie houses in Italian small town life, ...

Upon its release in 1966, Gillo Pontecorvo’s “The Battle of Algiers” became an instant art-house sensation and garnered three Academy Award nominations. Since ...

ROME (AP) — Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and the soundtracks such classic Hollywood ...