The doc is great on Dubai but boring on Detroit. We all know about how Detroit was once big and powerful and the center of car production. We know that this glory is a thing of the past. We know its buildings are empty and decaying. We know about the crime. We know that poor people live there because houses are cheap. We know all of this because Detroit has been done to death. But Dubai has not: Much about this city is still new and alive to us. For example, the doc explains that oil money is not behind its growth. The oil-rich government built only the foundation for the city, not the city itself. Much of the capital that has been transformed into towers and malls came from outside the United Arab Emirates. Another part of the doc informs us that after 9/11, certain Arabs fled New York City for fear of their assets being frozen by the US government if links to terrorists were found. Many of these Arabs ended up in Dubai (a city that's friendly to terror-tainted capital). Now, this kind of information is new and interesting. Northwest Film Forum, Sun June 10 at 8 pm.