Detropia
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 15, 2013
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: New Video Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady | |
Director of Photography: | Tony Hardmon | |
Hosted by | Tommy Stevens, Dave Bing, Crystal Starr, George McGregor, Phil Cooley, Steve Coy & Dorota Coy |
Entertainment Reviews:
... the film has a clear perspective: Detroit as a microcosm of the impact of global capitalism...
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Gay City News
[The filmmakers] lay out DETROPIA's cautionary tale with a lens that makes even devastation a thing of beauty. The images are haunting...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2/4 --
Artfully - perhaps too artfully - illustrates the transformation of the Motor City from a middle-class utopia to an urban nightmare of blight, crime and fleeing residents.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 2/5 --
A sobering, sentimental journey through crumbling Detroit -- but one lacking any real intellectual punch.
Times-Picayune
Rating: 4/5 --
Detropia is everything you think it's going to be: educational, emotional and highly depressing. Yet, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing's documentary portrait of Detroit, America's noted city of industry, is not a static picture of decay.
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Canada.com
Rating: 3.5/5 --
A fascinating portrait of a 21st-century post-industrial hellscape.
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Arizona Republic
Rating: 3/4 --
Detropia's filmmakers stay out of the picture, hanging back to allow the viewer to absorb the meaning of Detroit's fate. It is even more complex than we thought.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Product Description:
In 1930, Detroit was the fastest growing city in the world as the booming auto industry made it one of America's key manufacturing centers and people flocked to Michigan looking for steady jobs and a chance to live out the American dream. In the 21st Century, as American car makers struggle to compete and production has moved either overseas or to "right to work" states, unemployment in Detroit has been estimated at close to 50 percent, while the city's population has shrunk from 1.8 million in 1950 to less than 714,000 in 2010. Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady present a look at life in contemporary Detroit in the documentary DETROPIA, which focuses on the people who are struggling to keep a great American city alive in the wake of serious economic and political woes. Detropia also offers troubling facts on the circumstances that led to Detroit's economic collapse, and how the city's problems may be coming to a town near you. DETROPIA was an official selection at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where it received honors for best documentary editing.
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- UPC: 767685281611
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