Gillo

When Gillan set his aircraft down and taxied over to the hangar, the whole squadron was there to greet him; already the news had leaked out that "Gillo" had done it.

The HurricaneStory Gallico, Paul 1959

And then, years later, I got to know Gillo Pontecorvo very well, and loved his company, and spoke with him at length about the film.

Michael Vazquez: NYFF @50: Chairman Richard Peña on Opening Nights: The Social Network, Miller's Crossing, All About My Mother, PLUS Saadi Yacef In-Person Tonight Michael Vazquez 2011

Those are strong, strong political films, almost Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo style, you know?

Del Toro, Shindo Share Cross-Cultural Dialogue Bruce Bennett 2011

The Battle of Algiers: One of the most influential films in the history of political cinema, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers focuses on the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France.

French Word-A-Day: 2008

Gillo stayed very realpolitick, with Brando actually acting as an anti-white savior, the whole ugly reality of Machiavellian intrigues being exposed, and guess what, the movie bombed in America.

The Avatar Movie from a Black perspective 2010

The Battle of Algiers: One of the most influential films in the history of political cinema, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers focuses on the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France.

ronron - French Word-A-Day 2008

Gillo stayed very realpolitick, with Brando actually acting as an anti-white savior, the whole ugly reality of Machiavellian intrigues being exposed, and guess what, the movie bombed in America.

The Avatar Movie from a Black perspective 2010

Gillo stayed very realpolitick, with Brando actually acting as an anti-white savior, the whole ugly reality of Machiavellian intrigues being exposed, and guess what, the movie bombed in America.

The Avatar Movie from a Black perspective 2010

The Battle of Algiers: One of the most influential films in the history of political cinema, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers focuses on the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France.

French Word-A-Day: 2008

Steve Erickson, writing at Nerve, finds the film "aspires to the revolutionary gravitas of Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, but it plays like a weaker retread of Ken Loach's 1995 Spanish Civil War opus Land and Freedom."

GreenCine Daily: The Wind That Shakes the Barley. 2007