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  <title>Creative Loafing Tampa: Lance Goldenberg</title>
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    <title>Traitor, Transsiberian and more</title>
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        Reviews of recent releases...
       
      
        By Lance Goldenberg
      
      
      OPENING THIS WEEK GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF HUNTER S. THOMPSON (R) Read J.R. Jones&#39; review. RECENT RELEASES AMERICAN TEEN (PG-13) Nanette Burstein&#39;s American Teen, ostensibly a documentary, goes down so smooth that a prime time broadcast on MTV wouldn&#39;t be at all out of the question. Burstein takes her camera into a typical high school in a typical, mostly white, mostly middle-class town, where she focuses on a group of seniors who seem to fit into easily recognizable
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    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Before the Rain is a postmodern puzzle</title>
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        An intricately structured '90s classic finally arrives on DVD...
       
      
        By Lance Goldenberg
      
      
      Back when I taught a college course on world cinema in the mid-&#39;90s, one of my students&#39; favorite films turned out to be Before the Rain, the first-ever production from the then-newly independent Republic of Macedonia. The film&#39;s popularity with the class was initially pretty puzzling, this being a group that could usually be counted on to be conspicuously resistant to subtitles, symbolism and thought-provoking ambiguities -- all of which Before the Rain offers in spades. In retrospect, however, the
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    <title>Hamlet 2 takes on Hollywood</title>
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        Movie formulas get a raunchy, mocking send-up...
       
      
        By Lance Goldenberg
      
      
      One of the first things you notice about Hamlet 2 is its healthy dislike for films like Dangerous Minds and Dead Poets Society, movies in which students (the more troubled the better) have their spirits lifted and lives turned around by that one Very Special Teacher. Hamlet 2 so relishes spewing its venom on these inspirational institutional dramas, you might be tempted to think of it as the anti-Mr. Holland&#39;s Opus. Beyond any of its other virtues, that makes Hamlet
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Tell No One will keep you guessing</title>
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        The plot thickens at Tampa Theatre...
       
      
        By Lance Goldenberg
      
      
      It takes about six minutes to get to the first twist in the French thriller Tell No One, but the movie wraps us up in a delicious, velvety fog (apologies to Mel Torme) from that moment on, and the twists don&#39;t stop coming until the final credits roll some two hours later. Francois Cluzet stars as Alex Beck, a pediatrician whose wife was abducted and killed eight years earlier, leaving more than a few unresolved issues that suddenly seem to
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>American Teen: Reality bites the documentary</title>
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        Plus Don Cheadle in <i>Traitor</i>, as well as other new and recent releases...
       
      
        By Lance Goldenberg
      
      
      OPENING THIS WEEK AMERICAN TEEN (PG-13) Nanette Burstein&#39;s American Teen, ostensibly a documentary, goes down so smooth that a prime time broadcast on MTV wouldn&#39;t be at all out of the question. Burstein takes her camera into a typical high school in a typical, mostly white, mostly middle-class town, where she focuses on a group of seniors who seem to fit into easily recognizable molds, at least at first. We meet Colin the Jock, Jake the Nerd, Hannah the Rebel
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    <title>Fish tale</title>
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        This Iranian import is a tasty entry in the Global Lens series....
       
      
        By Lance Goldenberg
      
      
      As far as the movies are concerned, food and romance go together like Rolls and Royce or Tarzan and Jane. Tom Jones and Like Water for Chocolate are only two of the films famously connecting the glories of the table to the pleasures of the boudoir, while every other season seems to usher in a new Babette&#39;s Feast or Big Night promoting cuisine as a magical catalyst for opening up the heart, affirming us as social creatures transformed into vessels
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Elegy: A melancholy chamber piece</title>
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        Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz slow dance around love...
       
      
        By Lance Goldenberg
      
      
      In Isabel Coixet&#39;s Elegy, Ben Kingsley plays David Kepesh, an intellectual and avid womanizer whose age has crept up on him, leaving him staring out the window of his handsomely decorated Manhattan apartment and pondering how it&#39;s still possible he&#39;s &quot;engaged in the carnal aspects of the human comedy.&quot; If this sounds like Philip Roth territory, it should -- Elegy is an adaptation of yet another Roth novel about the complex dovetailing of mind and body (among other things), and
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    <title>See Cruz (and more)</title>
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        Short reviews of new and recent releases...
       
      
        By Lance Goldenberg
      
      
      OPENING THIS WEEK:ELEGY (R) Read Lance Goldenberg&rsquo;s review.THE FISH FALL IN LOVE (NR) Read Lance Goldenberg&rsquo;s review.RECENT RELEASESBOTTLE SHOCK (PG-13) Another movie that begins by telling us it&rsquo;s &ldquo;based on a true story,&rdquo; Bottle Shock doesn&rsquo;t play as fast and loose with facts as some, but it doesn&rsquo;t hesitate to throw in a made-up romance or two and some trusty father-son tensions to embellish its essentially accurate account of the landmark event that finally gave American wines the respect they
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    <title>American Teen: The truth is out there</title>
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        <i>Teen</i> and <i>Bottle Shock</i> root around in reality...
       
      
        By Lance Goldenberg
      
      
      So when is a doc not a doc? Moviegoers have pondered that one ever since Robert Flaherty bent the parameters of nonfiction by supposedly staging scenes in 1922&#39;s Nanook of the North, one of the first and most famous feature-length documentaries (or docs, as we syllable-phobics prefer to call them). Flaherty shouldn&#39;t take the whole rap for the increasingly slippery notion of truth that&#39;s been percolating since Nanook, but audiences nowadays certainly do have a more complicated, love-hate affair with
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz go a courtin&amp;#39;</title>
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        Woody Allen's latest a refreshing change of pace...
       
      
        By Lance Goldenberg
      
      
      In Woody Allen&#39;s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the director&#39;s 334th film (the number may actually be a bit lower, but I&#39;ve lost count), Scarlett Johansson plays a young dabbler in the arts, whose most notable achievement so far has been directing a short film about, as she puts it, &quot;why love is so hard to define.&quot; Even if this weren&#39;t a Woody Allen movie, Johansson&#39;s slightly pompous statement is the perfect set-up for a joke, and the punch line comes when
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    <title>Wall flowers</title>
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        East German youth navigate nihilism and naturalism....
       
      
        By Lance Goldenberg
      
      
      Those crazy kids in Germany just couldn&rsquo;t get enough of the juvenile delinquency flicks Hollywood exported to Europe in the late-&rsquo;50s. And when Blackboard Jungle triggered riots in West Berlin, the reverberations resounded all the way over on the other side of the wall. East Germany was so smitten, it even incorporated its own ostensibly Socialist spin on J.D.-mania into a homegrown cinema that emerged in the GDR around this time. Known as Berlinfilms, these gritty, documentary-like dramas were styled
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Pineapple Express: What a trip</title>
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        <i>Express</i> and <i>The Last Mistress</i>: Nothing succeeds like excess....
       
      
        By Lance Goldenberg
      
      
      Although it&#39;s ostensibly a period piece, filled with sumptuous costumes and all the other trappings of early 19th-century Parisian aristocracy, Catherine Breillat&#39;s The Last Mistress is as aggressively modern as any of the director&#39;s films. The source here is Jules Barbey d&#39;Aurevilly&#39;s 157-year old novel Une Vieille Maitresse, but Breillat chews it up and spits it out with the taboo-breaking relish she&#39;s brought to contemporary exercises (exorcisms, some would say) like Fat Girl and Anatomy of Hell. Female desire is
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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The Beach Theatre is a homegrown treasure</title>
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        Catch Indie Fest and more at the venerable cinema....
       
      
        By Lance Goldenberg
      
      
      It&#39;s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, but let&#39;s not forget that independent theaters continue to drop like flies, while the few that remain often make such predictable programming choices it&#39;s hard to tell them apart. You can bank on Brideshead Revisited showing up on every screen from New York&#39;s Angelika to Burns Court to Tampa Theatre, while even a good movie like La Vie en Rose becomes harder to love knowing the multiple screens it monopolizes means many equally
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    <title>The Wackness arrives Sundance-certified</title>
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        Ben Kingsley hams it up in this coming-of-age tale....
       
      
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      An audience favorite at the Sundance Film Festival, The Wackness is an unremarkable coming-of-ager charting the course of one Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck), an aimless Manhattan kid who can&#39;t seem to get laid despite being reasonably attractive and the resident drug dealer at his Upper East Side private school. That&#39;s our starting point, a premise almost as unfathomable as the reception this fatally clich&eacute;d film received at Sundance. Unloved and unpopular, Luke descends into depression and seeks the council of
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    <title>Privilege: The link between Elvis and Britney</title>
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        '60s classic speaks to manufactured pop stardom....
       
      
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      Very few people had the good sense to appreciate Peter Watkins&#39; Privilege when it first appeared some 40 years ago. It was the Summer of Love, after all, a time thoroughly at odds with a bleak, uncompromising vision that cast a withering glance at, among other things, the children of rock &#39;n&#39; roll as dupes of The Man. Privilege soon vanished from theaters and then from the face of the earth, another movie misfortunate enough to be too far ahead
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