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Time Out New York / Issue 654 : Apr 9–15, 2008

Tribeca Film Festival '08

Proceed with caution

Not all movie blurbs are created equal; an experienced festivalgoer can often catch a whiff of stinky fare from certain foul words.

By Melissa Anderson

If you can't judge a book by its cover, then you shouldn't judge a film by its blurb. But when scouring the list of 120 feature titles at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, certain words and phrases signaled that a lady Film editor might want to take a pass:
- "senior citizen hip-hop dance team"—Gotta Dance
- "Mariah Carey"—Tennessee
- "Lyme disease"—Under Our Skin
- "weave a tapestry of images shaping one woman's deepest sense of selfhood"—Everywhere at Once
- "Madonna uses the power of documentary film"—I Am Because We Are
- "comically struggles with his addiction to gambling, drugs and alcohol"—Finding Amanda
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- 5775 JB Tue, Apr 22, at 04:03pm
  Mocking Lyme disease/Under Our Skin? Ignorance, ironically is why this film is so urgent. Cousin to syphilis, Lyme destroys lives, sometimes kills. Medical establishment in denial. Patients abandoned, doctors persecuted. Science distorted. Profits over lives. Patients disabled yet “cured,” live in a Kafkaesque nightmare. This film appears to be the first real attempt to discern just what in the he*l is going on. View the trailer. http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/filmguide/Under_Our_Skin.html
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