From Uli Gaulke's Comrades in Dreams. Courtesy of Berlinale 2007 Like a Las Vegas weekend extended into weeks, a film festival rides on the hopes of a movie jackpot, luring spectators from screening to screening, and blurring day to night. Unlike Venice and Cannes, Berlin has the public sense to feature documentaries in its different sections and special programs. The festival's fertile ground for nonfiction gold leads crowds to persevere through head colds and down alcohol against the February chill. Yet the majority of this year's films proved illuminating in their disappointment. Rather
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There is one that film keeps my dreams alive for a better, peaceful, more just world--one to which I go back often in these dark days. It is Chile , Obstinate Memory (1997) by Patricio Guzmán. Guzmán has turned the seminal trauma of his youth--the death of President Salvador Allende in a coup d'état and the subsequent subjugation of Chile's long-established democracy by General Augusto Pinochet--into a meditation on memory and forgetting. During the Pinochet dictatorship, the military's version of history--the junta as heroic guardians of social order--was imposed. Chile, Obstinate Memory
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Was IDA Career Achievement Award Honoree in 1988
'A Film Unfinished' airs Tuesday, May 3, on PBS' 'Independent Lens.'
Amir Bar-Lev's 'The Tillman Story' Opens August 20.
A new collection of the documentary work of and about Henri-Cartier Bresson.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting's 'America at a Crossroads' series explores today's challenges in the wake of September 11, 2001.