New 'Detropia' film appears to draw mostly positive reviews on eve of Detroit premiere

  1. Well, I just watched Detropia. I'm not underwhelmed exactly, that's not it. It's just that the film is more for people who don't live here.
  2. New Detroit Movie takes in big profits “Detropia”: Can Detroit be saved? salon.com/2012/09/07/det… via @Salon
  3. I don't know if this doc is interesting to me being a native of the Detroit area, but I want to see this.
  4. @DetropiaTheFilm director gives her take on Mayor Bing, the downsizing of Detroit & the blank slate mistake - americancity.org/daily/entry/in…
  5. Putting the final details together so this Detropia #Detroit premiere goes off flawlessly! Gotta love when your events sell out in 5 min!
  6. @HuffPostDetroit taking my UDM architecture students to the #Detropia director opening at the Main on Friday. They're excited but I'm more!
  7. NYC friends you must see #Detropia at IFC. haunting, beautiful, complex portrait of a major city on the brink
  8. Pissed the filmmakers of #Detropia didn't follow me around. Would have made their film ten times better. #LarryTheCableGuysCableGuyDotNet
  9. “Detropia,” a lyrical film about the destruction of a great American city, is the most moving documentary the writer has seen in years. The city is Detroit and the film, made by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (who is a native), is both an ardent love letter to past vitality and a grateful salute to those who remain in place. “Detropia” has its share of forlorn images, yet the filmmakers are so attuned to color and to shape that the writer was amazed by the handsomeness of what he was seeing. This is a beautiful film. Ruins, of course, often strike us as magnificent. In “Detropia,” we’re looking at American ruins, and we feel awe, but here it’s mixed with disbelief and shock. This city didn’t fall victim to warfare or weather. It was abandoned. Read more newyorker.com/arts/critics/...
  10. "'Detropia' is a haunting, beautiful and tragic portrait of contemporary Detroit, a city that exemplifies the lost American century in many ways, for good and for ill—and a city whose sad fate once looked like an aberration and now looks like a harbinger."
  11. A midst the suspense that's building up to DETROPIA's release here in the Metro Detroit Area, this less serious Detroit film looks like a fun one youtube.com/watch?v=sFsMXzq...
  12. I still find it hard to fathom what happened to the city I spent so much of my misspent youth hanging out in.... salon.com/2012/09/07/detrop... "You can buy a beautiful, beautiful mansion in the Boston-Edison district, where all the auto company executives used to live, for $139,000. An absolutely incredible house, still with all the mahogany banisters and chandeliers. But you better not need the police, and I’m not joking. You better know how to use a shotgun."
  13. A fascinating documentary about the decline of Detroit and its rebirth >> DETROPIA vimeo.com/45929284
  14. Love the passenger tunnel at Detroit airport. Reminds me to tell you check out Detropia the very cool doc at art house near u
  15. Success of Detropia confirms once again that you don't need to sell your film to a studio to have a successful theatrical release. Bravo!

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Eric Lacy

I'm a 33-year-old Detroit entertainment reporter for Mlive Media Group. I have a variety of interests and am an easy going guy that can get along with everyone from truck drivers to CEOs. I'm a 12-time marathon runner who loves Detroit, the city of Lansing (my hometown) and the great state of Michigan.

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