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of the genre’s symbolic language — the motorcycles, tattoos, guns and knives, those Freudian cigars. The finer things are left on the killing- room floor. “Why are you here?” someone asks Stallone at one point. “I just am,” he replies in the perfect sum- mation of the film’s combination of admirable simplicity and sheer idiocy. As a director, Stallone sub- scribes simply to the more-is-more school of filmmaking. The same could be said of Edgar Wright, who has won a cult following thanks to his comedies “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz,” and who has adapted “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” with the same attention to fetishistic details of archaic video games, TV sitcoms and B-movie genres as Stallone pays to his ord- nance. Cera plays the title charac- ter, a 22-year-old musician who falls in love with a rainbow-haired hipster girl (Mary Elizabeth Win- stead) and must do battle with her seven exes to win her affection. The movie, a glib pastiche of pop culture references and snarky asides, plays like one long, insuf- ferable in-joke. Cera’s dilated, wispy-voiced ver- sion of the leading man at first seems like a welcome relief from Stallone and Co.’s pumped-and- plumped aesthetic (a healthy dose of collagen apparently having been added to the aging actors’ steroids). But as Cera kicks and quips his way through Pilgrim’s progress, with Wright slicing and
dicing the screen image into com- ic-book-ready panels, complete with on-screen titles and graphics, “Scott Pilgrim” becomes an in- creasingly cynical enterprise. For all his feigned innocence, Pilgrim is less a deer in the head- lights than an outright weasel, and Winstead’s Ramona Flowers makes an unusually chilly femme fatale. “Scott Pilgrim” has the feel of a slickly packaged, over-pro- duced bauble for a youth market bored to tears by human feeling. By the climactic confrontation in a cavernous nightclub, the audi- ence’s reaction echoes the pass- word Pilgrim uttered to get in: “Whatever.”
‘Eat Pray Love’
As a portrait of a middle-aged quest for relevance, “Eat Pray Love” has more in common with “The Expendables” than “Scott Pil- grim,” but it hews just as faithfully to a specific grammar. Roberts plays Elizabeth Gilbert, whose memoir of her disastrous divorce, painful rebound relationship and subsequent search for spiritual meaning in Italy, India and Bali became a blockbuster success. “Language, gelato and spaghetti” are tantamount to Stallone’s bul- lets, blades and things that go boom as Gilbert embarks on her sojourn in Rome, where she learns Italian and obeys the timeless or- der to “mangia! mangia!” And di- rector Ryan Murphy dutifully of- fers plenty of mouth-watering shots of pasta, pizza and a hedo- nistic lunch of asparagus and boiled eggs, which Roberts savors
while wearing lingerie a friend urged her to buy “for you, Liz, just for you.” As a heroine, Liz Gilbert joins Carrie Bradshaw of “Sex and the City” and blogger Julie Powell of “Julie & Julia” as a peculiarly 21st- century heroine, ideally suited for an age that has taken self-absorp- tion to new levels. But Roberts — who in “Eat Pray Love” cries al- most as often as she flashes that still-winning smile — tones down Gilbert’s most self-congratulatory excesses, delivering a warm and largely vanity-free performance. What’s more, she surrounds her- self with a consistently terrific sup- porting players, including Billy Crudup, James Franco, Richard Jenkins and Bardem, who as the seductive Brazilian businessman Gilbert meets in Bali matches that country’s breathtaking scenery beat for smoldering beat. “Eat Pray Love” provides attrac- tive illustration, if not illumina- tion, to a love story that’s more about romancing the I than the guy. (We’re never quite clear on why Gilbert was so miserable in her marriage, unless a husband wanting to go back to school counts as an irreconcilable differ- ence.) But as a parable of travel and transformation, it remains strangely inert, consisting largely of Roberts looking beatific, sad or slightly self-pitying as she offers narrated insights that invariably begin with “A friend once told me ... ”
And those voice-overs may be the most telling signifiers in “Eat Pray Love,” far more meaningful
than even the perfect slice of pizza the author finds in Naples. While Gilbert may be less shallow than Carrie in “Sex and the City” and less gratingly whiny than Julie in “Julie & Julia,” she’s still a charac- ter who can only be revealed not through action but endless expla- nation and self-examination. Even Gilbert’s adventures — learning Italian, perfecting her meditation, studying with an elderly Indone- sian healer — are portrayed not as mythic tests but as things that happen to her. Thus is the classic hero quest at-
tenuated into “the physics of the quest,” which as Roberts describes in that ever-present narration sounds like passively going with the flow. “Eat Pray Love” talks the talk, but it’s the Stallones and Scott Pilgrims of the world who still get to walk the walk (and fly the plane and play the bass). For years wom- en have tried to find their voice in Hollywood; now, with few excep- tions, that seems to be the only thing they’re left with.
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GOING FAR TO LOOK WITHIN: Julia Roberts in “Eat Pray Love,” based on Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestseller.
The Expendables
(103 minutes, at area theaters) is rated R for strong action and bloody violence throughout, and for some profanity. Eat Pray Love
(133 minutes, at area theaters) is rated PG-13 for brief strong profanity, some sexual references and male rear nudity.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (108 minutes, at area theaters) is rated PG-13 for stylized violence, sexual content, profanity and drug references.
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Arlington’s mega Artisphere center to include galleries, theaters and ballroom artisphere from C1
not only in the use of the space, but in the clientele the Artisphere hopes to attract. “We have a large younger demographic in the re- gion,” Kaplan said, referring to 20-to-45-year-olds. “They want to be participants, not be passive, and they want a place to go. We’ll be open 12 hours a day, seven days a week. People can come and hang out without much planning.” The hard-hat preview included
a walk-through of the darkened 220-seat Dome Theatre, a space
for concerts and films; a 4,000- square-foot Terrace Gallery, with room for exhibitions, seating with drinks and snacks as well as an overlook into the ballroom; and a semi-circular Wi-Fi Town Square, with a two-story video wall and a tiny stage for music and poetry readings. The tour included the exterior terrace, with its view of the Rosslyn skyscrapers and peek- a-boo glimpses of Washington. Built into the programming, Kaplan said, will be opportunities for interaction with the artists. “We are trying to attract audienc-
es that normally don’t come into a cultural center,” she said. One idea is to have late-night dances, with regional bands, on the week- ends. The ballroom will have regular nights for salsa, swing and social dance, and Kaplan said she expec- ted it to draw a crowd. “There will be live music 90 percent of the time. Dance is very popular in this area, but there aren’t a lot of ball- rooms,” she said, describing the retractable bandstand as a “Mur- phy bed stage” in what is believed to be the second-largest dance
floor in the area after Glen Echo Park.
Places to eat and drink are placed around the three levels. Part of the town square will be a catered cafe, with additional bar and lounge areas. A walk-around section, above the ballroom, will have access to food and bar serv- ice, as well as to the exterior ter- race. The 125-seat black box will be
the new base for the Washington Shakespeare Company, the avant- garde classical company, which Kaplan said will stage 32 weeks of
programming there. Across the street, the 387-seat Spectrum Theatre will be programmed un- der the Artisphere umbrella, bringing the whole project 62,000 square feet. In addition to the Washington
Shakespeare Company, the center will be home to Bowen McCauley Dance, which is choreographing a new piece for Artisphere’s open- ing weekend, and the National Chamber Ensemble. The Arling- ton Cinema & Drafthouse and Al- exandria Symphony will program some events there. The building
also includes space for the Arti- sans Center of Virginia, a craft or- ganization. The county approved the con- version of the building last year and construction started in Janu- ary. Construction, financed by the county, is $6.7 million. The Ross- lyn Business Improvement Dis- trict provided $1 million for pro- gram development and is contrib- uting $300,000 to the annual budget of about $3.1 million. The remainder will be made up by ticket sales and contributions.
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