The Brian Lehrer Show: War on Film

The Brian Lehrer Show

War on Film

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Still photograph from "Jarhead"

In Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola expected to turn people off armed combat by showing the horrors of the Vietnam War. But as the new film "Jarhead" depicts, Marines often watch war movies to get psyched up before battle. Walter Murch edited both films and talks about their use as military porn.

Ferrer's Fight

Fernando Ferrer, democratic candidate for Mayor
- makes his case for election in the final week of the campaign

» Ferrer for Mayor

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30 Issues: The Arts in New York

Randall Bourscheidt, president of the Alliance for the Arts
- on which candidate for Mayor would be better for the arts in New York

» Alliance for the Arts

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Secret Sites

Demetri Sevastopulo, reporter for the Financial Times
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Josh White, Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post
- on the CIA's secret detention centers in Eastern Europe

» "Evidence CIA has secret jails in Europe" (The Financial Times)
» "European ...

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Shooting with a Gun, Shooting with a Camera

Walter Murch, editor of many films including "Jarhead" and "Apocalypse Now"
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Lawrence Weschler, director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, contributed "Valkyries Over Iraq" to Harper's Magazine
- on the uses and abuses of war movies

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At Home in Kabul

Hyder Akbar, college student, codirector and founder of the NGO Wadan Afghanistan, "This American Life" contributor, and author Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story (Bloomsbury, 2005)
- shares his experiences as a translator for military interrogators in Afghanistan

» Come Back to Afghanistan ...

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