IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS at Walter Reade Today

By Michael Tully

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Our best wishes are with filmmaker James Longley today, as he is currently experiencing Iran’s post-election turmoil firsthand. AJ Schnack posted a series of emails from Longley, which show the country’s rising tension from an insider’s perspective. The posts culminate with Longley’s troubling detention by Iranian authorities. Making movies is important, but Longley’s safety is more important. One hopes he leaves the country before worse things can happen.

Coincidentally, Longley’s Oscar-nominated Iraq in Fragments is screening today at 4pm at the Walter Reade as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival’s Special Anniversary Event. If you can’t make it in time, you can always buy the DVD at Amazon.

— Michael Tully

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Michael Tully

Michael Tully is an award-winning writer/director whose films have garnered widespread critical acclaim, his projects having premiered at some of the most renowned film festivals across the globe. He is also the former (and founding) editor of this site. In 2006, Michael's first feature, COCAINE ANGEL, chronicling a tragic week in the life of a young drug addict, world premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film immediately solidified the director as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s "25 New Faces of Independent Film,” a reputation that was reinforced a year later when his follow-up feature, SILVER JEW, a documentary capturing the late David Berman's rare musical performances in Tel Aviv, world-premiered at SXSW and landed distribution with cult indie-music label Drag City. In 2011, Michael wrote, directed, and starred in his third feature, SEPTIEN, which debuted at the 27th annual Sundance Film Festival before being acquired by IFC Films' Sundance Selects banner. A few years later, in 2014, Michael returned to Sundance with the world premiere of his fourth feature, PING PONG SUMMER, an ‘80s set coming-of-age tale that was quickly picked up for theatrical distribution by Gravitas Ventures. In 2018, Michael wrote and directed the dread-inducing genre film DON'T LEAVE HOME, which has been described as "Get Out with Catholic guilt in the Irish countryside" (IndieWire). The film premiered at SXSW and was subsequently acquired by Cranked Up Films and Shudder.

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