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.

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 ...

But what makes James Longley’s Iraq in Fragments so powerful—and why it ... he splits his own film into detailed thirds, tracking a young kid in Baghdad, two brick-baking Kurdish families ...

“Iraq in Fragments,” a documentary directed by James ... For an interview with director James Longley by Seattle Times movie critic Moira Macdonald, which ran March 30 (“Middle East, front ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seattle filmmaker James Longley's "Iraq in Fragments," an Academy Award-nominated ... It will air again at 4:30 a.m. March 29. The film explores Iraq's Sunni, Shiite and Kurd communities in ...

“Iraq in Fragments,” by Seattle filmmaker James ... A look at life in modern-day Iraq from several points of view, the film was shot in Iraq and completed in Seattle last year.

On aesthetic grounds alone, James Longley’s new documentary, Iraq in Fragments, will make cinematography fans giddy. The film is a widescreen mix of exotic landscapes, peeling paint, unfiltered ...

He writes, "There was no government in Iraq, and I could film whatever I wanted as long as I could stay alive." There is no apparent reluctance on anyone's part to be photographed, including the ...

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 ...