The Detroit Film Theater rocks.

Well, we took advantage of our Detroit Institute of Arts membership today to see a film (for a discount) at the adjoining Detroit Film Theater. The theater, part of the 1927 DIA building, itself is awesome. It's kind of old-school where someone comes out on the stage and announces the film. At the end of the show, people actually applaud.

We saw a terrific, moving film called Iraq in Fragments. So many things we see about the war today are from the American perspective, especially what's on the nightly news or in the papers. This film takes you inside Iraq and the everyday lives of its people.

From the synopsis:
An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied.