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This summer marks 20 years of visits by me to the Detroit Film Theatre. I’ll never forget that first movie in the summer of 1988, when my good friend John Petersen finally talked me into visiting this theater that I heard about for years, but had never got around to seeing.
The first movie that I saw at the DFT was the German film Wings of Desire. Its hypnotic black-and-white images of angels floating over Cold War Berlin was the perfect film for pulling me into th
