“Ararat,” November 17, 2004 (2002), DVD. Very interesting Atom Etgoyan film about the making of an historical film about the Armenian genocide that is itself fraught with half-truths and outright falsehoods to make the larger point about the masking of the genocide. It also chronicles the modern legacy of the acts and their proximate ones, as in the short and unhappy life of the painter, Arshile Gorky who killed himself. In turn, it looks at the moderns filming those older stories and the historians analyzing them, as well as the self-delusion of those thinking they can get the truth by going to the source and filming. It contains many of the scenes Etgoyan filmed when he made “Calander” (see the last review in this list). Fine acting from Christopher Plummer, Elias Koteas, Charles Aznevour, and Etgoyan’s usual cast, especially his wife. Eric Bogosian overacts a bit, but that’s ok. Layers of layers, some of truth some of falsehood that, when filmed, become truth. One sees the film and knows it contains falsehood yet it plays as history. A real meditation on film and history worth seeing.