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DESCRIPTION:The Troubles We’ve Seen: A History of Journalism in Wartime Marcel Ophuls 
 (France/Germany/U.K., 1994)   Introduced by Mark Danner   Mark Danner is a 
 professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. He has been 
 a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1990 and is a regular contributor to 
 The New York Review of Books.   (Veillées d'armes). “Ethnic cleansing, 
 that brings back memories,” Marcel Ophuls (The Sorrow and the Pity, Hotel 
 Terminus) muses on the train to Sarajevo in this epic, ironic investigation 
 of war and the journalistic impulse, completed in 1994 but only now being 
 distributed in the United States. Ophuls traveled to the besieged city in 
 1993 to mingle with the motley crew of reporters camped out at the Holiday 
 Inn; his interviews with French, British, American, and Bosnian journalists 
 deliver trenchant observations on the political, ethical, and psychological 
 factors behind the making of news. (Other interview subjects include 
 Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, who claims his country's freedom of 
 the press is “unparalleled,” but says “don't trust my explanation.” 
 “I won't,” Ophuls replies.) Excerpting films by his father Max Ophuls, 
 adopting the Marx Brothers as muse, the director employs a strategy of 
 playful self-reference in the midst of horror; between feints at media and 
 mediation, he moves in for a sucker punch of reality. As legendary reporter 
 Martha Gellhorn, who survived both the Spanish Civil War and a marriage to 
 Ernest Hemingway, puts it: “the brave are funny.”   —Juliet Clark   
 • Written by Ophuls. Photographed by Pierre Boffety. (226 mins plus 
 intermission, In English, French, German, and Serbo-Croatian with English 
 subtitles, Color, Video, From Milestone)   \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/31/86353.php
SUMMARY:Human Rights Watch Film Festival
LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive\n2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch  UC Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/31/86353.php
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