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Hugo Chávez is having a movie moment. The Venezuela president is the subject of a fawning Oliver Stone documentary. He's had visits from Sean Penn, Danny Glover and Kevin Spacey. (And, of course, Tim Robbins, if it even needs to be said.) And, as I pointed out last month, his anti-golf politics have a lot in common with Alex Cox's "Repo Man" sequel -- trendy! And now, Chávez has got his own film studio -- La Villa del Cine -- and they're intent on pumping out movies that get behind his agenda. The official slogan: "Lights, camera, revolution!" Mac Margolis' Newsweek profile of the studio is pretty harsh. I'm not necessarily Chávez's biggest fan, but Hitler/Mussolini comparisons seem, at the very least, premature. That said, it's no surprise that Chávez is going as dictatorial over the Venezuelan film industry as he has been in every other aspect of the country's...
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