Nobody is more touching in this regard than Darrieux, her soft wrinkles unable to erode the exquisite heroines she once incarnated for Max Ophuls.

NEWYORKER: 8 Women

In 1993, Marcel Ophuls went to Sarajevo, which was under siege, to film this epic documentary (running almost four hours) about war correspondents at work.

NEWYORKER: The Troubles We've Seen

With tact and care, the movie digs into all the subjects that lay concealed below the surface when Max Ophuls and Douglas Sirk were filming their own melodramas in the nineteen-fifties.

NEWYORKER: Far from Heaven

But as Ophuls expands the scope of his film to include discussions with a range of media figures and intellectuals (including Phillip Knightley, Alain Finkielkraut, and the filmmaker Romain Goupil) his critique of the conventions of the information business, in which journalists are ineluctable players, emerges.

NEWYORKER: The Troubles We've Seen