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...performing in small villages along the way. The other two films take place in Russia. “Bread Day” focuses on a town outside St. Petersburg that has been all but abandoned, with only a few pensioners left who every week must transport a railway car full of bread from a junction two hours away, pushing it home by hand and consequently contending with the disagreeable bread seller. “In the Dark,” the only one of the films that takes place in a city, depicts a blind man living in Moscow...
...rrituMexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu really digs vehicular disaster. Maybe a little too much. First there was “Amores Perros,” his 2000 debut—a brilliant, difficult movie about the intersecting lives led by victims of a car crash. “21 Grams,” his ambitious first Hollywood film, came in 2003, overwrought and under-felt. Like “Amores Perros,” it followed several fractured lives thrown together following a deadly hit-and-run auto accident. Now there?...
...barren western expanses as they caught the day's sunrise. After some visa haggling and a luggage wait upon landing, I was on the road into Baghdad, rolling along the same littered stretch where a friend of mine, aid worker Marla Ruzicka, lost her life to a suicide car bomber in April of 2005. It was a tense 20 minutes or so, but I would later realize the moment offered only a sample of the kind of anxiety whenever you drive around Baghdad...
...aide to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr detained on suspicion of involvement in sectarian killings by Shi'ite militia. Sitting in traffic in downtown Baghdad is far more nerve-wracking than rolling down even the most dangerous road in the area. You wonder if there are any car bombs amid the traffic around you as you eye the gridlock. You wonder if any of the people who've glanced at you on the street might suddenly whip out a cell phone, call someone interested in kidnapping a Westerner and organize snatch of their own. You wonder if your...
...Zone the following morning, I saw the otherworldly experience of those who live and work in a section of the city hermetically sealed off from the chaos outside. The air-conditioned offices of the press center were cool, efficient and orderly, making the noise, heat and acrid stench of car exhaust throughout Baghdad seem a thousand miles away. The officers on hand processed my credentials quickly and easily, and joked around with my bodyguard...