HBO also retains TV rights. “Iraq in Fragments” took in $63,300 on eight screens through November. On the making of the film: Longley tried unsuccessfully to film in Iraq twice before Saddam ...

In James Longley's powerful documentary, Iraq in Fragments, for example, the middle section of the film is a penetrating verite insight into the supporters of radical cleric Moqtada-al-Sadr.

I saw two very dissimilar films a day apart this week: Iraq in Fragments and the new James Bond film, Casino Royale. One film cost tens of millions and was shot in exotic locations like Venice ...

Although everyone in the film expresses a desire for normalcy and peace, the Kurds seem closer to achieving it than their fellow citizens. Since “Iraq in Fragments” was finished, the ...

It's hard to make a film that transcends the fiercely polarized debate about the Iraq war, but documentary filmmaker James Longley has done just that with "Iraq in Fragments," a vivid, poetic ...

Documentaries dealing with the Iraq war are as numerous as those ... we ride along with masked religious vigilantes. The third fragment of this film takes place in the agrarian Kurdish north ...

“Iraq in Fragments,” the Oscar-nominated documentary from Seattle filmmaker James Longley, returns today for a special engagement at the Varsity, 4329 University Way N.E., Seattle (206-781 ...

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 ...

Iraq in Fragments (94 mins, nc ... There are some striking images, but the film is less useful for not having any commentary on the confused events depicted.

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The movie industry often waits until the actual fighting dies ... few documentaries have been produced on one of today’s hottest topics. James Longleys Iraq in Fragments, therefore, would seem to have ...

James Longley's "Iraq in Fragments" rests on a debatable but firm premise -- that the embattled country is irrevocably separated by its three dominant groups, Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds -- but ...