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Watered-down version of an American triumph
Wine may be sunlight held together by water, as Galileo said, but "Bottle Shock" is held together only by Alan Rickman. The actor plays a British wine merchant living in Paris, who in 1976 traveled to Napa, Calif., to see what he might bring back with him...Tags: Galileo Galilei, Bottle Shock, California, Beverage Industry, Alan Rickman
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'Bottle Shock' a bit fruity but has smooth aftertaste
NewsdayBottle Shock probably should have been released on the Fourth of July, since it's hooked to such a patriotic moment in American history: the 1976 blind taste test in Paris, at which California winemakers beat those self-satisfied Frenchies at their own...Tags: Bottle Shock, John Anderson, California, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Dennis Farina
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Wine Country Story Starts Flat But Improves With Age
Courant Staff Writer" Bottle Shock" has a great true story to tell, and when it tells it straight, the movie is a winner, well cast and beautifully produced in authentic California wine country locations. Until about the halfway point, however, the script is too full of...Tags: Bottle Shock, Movies, California, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, West Hartford
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'Bottle Shock' is diluted and flat
Sun movie critic(C) In a 1976 event that became known as "The Judgment of Paris," California wines beat French ones in a blind taste test. Bottle Shock wastes that intriguing bit of history and some seductive Napa Valley settings on a bland script that's part period...Tags: Bottle Shock, Movies, California, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Claudette Colbert
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Alan Rickman uncorks an amusing wine snob in 'Bottle Shock'
Special to The TimesAlan Rickman practices a stealth approach to comedy -- laughs for him are the product of a dry, reserved and withholding theatrical temperament. All veddy, veddy English, of course (appropriate for an actor who spent time in Britain's Royal Shakespeare...Tags: California, Beverly Hills, Celebrity, Robin Hood, Harry Potter
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Best of the Blogs: August 3, 2008
FROM THE ART NOT IMITATING LIFE DEPARTMENT By now, you've probably heard that the Lifetime Network will screen the movie ''Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story,'' which is based on the true-life story of the disappearance of a Philadelphia girl. By...Tags: Bethlehem (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Hillary Clinton, Musikfest, Angel Cruz, August
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'Bottle Shock' strays from real 'judgment of Paris' tale
Chicago Tribune criticBack in 1976 there was a blind wine tasting in Paris, a pitting of some of France's finest bottlings against a selection of California reds and whites. The Americans nailed it—rattling the French and instantly boosting the reputation of California...Tags: Bottle Shock, Movies, California, Ugly Betty, Beverage Industry
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'Bottle Shock': Watered-down version of American wine win
Tribune criticWine may be sunlight held together by water, as Galileo said, but " Bottle Shock" is held together only by Alan Rickman. It's interesting, given how the actor has built so many exquisite characterizations on the foundation of a certain look, that of a...Tags: Galileo Galilei, California, Evanston, Bottle Shock, Movies
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Movie 'Bottle Shock' recounts the historic 1976 Paris wine-tasting contest
Times Restaurant Critic"Bottle Shock," a new independent film based, very loosely, on the famous 1976 blind tasting in Paris in which two California wines came out on top, much to the chagrin of the expert -- and very French -- wine tasters, opens today at theaters across the...Tags: Robert Mark Kamen, California, Canoga Park, Glendale (Los Angeles, California), Buena Vista (Buena Vista, Virginia)
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Stony Brook Film Festival a real crowd-pleaser
rafer.guzman@newsday.comThe crowd-pleasing Stony Brook Film Festival returns for its 13th year with 21 features, 14 shorts and a scheduled visit from Mary Stuart Masterson, who will be showing her directorial debut, "The Cake Eaters." Running from tomorrow through July26 at...Tags: Festive Event, John Anderson, Joey McIntyre, Mary Stuart Masterson, Fanny Ardant
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Director Jennifer Lynch reemerges with the thriller 'Surveillance.'
Special to The Times"IT FEELS kind of miraculous being here and kind of surreal," Jennifer Lynch said as she picked on a light lunch Wednesday afternoon, just hours before her official reemergence from a long stretch in the wilderness. "Surveillance," Lynch's second...Tags: David Lynch, Celebrity, Cannes Film Festival, Injuries, Google Inc.
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Cannes Film Festival announces official lineup
Eleventh-hour additions of Clint Eastwood's thriller "Changeling," starring Angelina Jolie, and Steven Soderbergh's double Che Guevara biopics, "The Argentine" and "Guerrilla," were among the big news delivered by festival general manager Thierry...Tags: Festive Event, Jackie Chan, Cannes Film Festival, Scarlett Johansson, Barry Levinson
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