The prince of nouveau-hippie chic always complains about his retro rep but then releases Alive From Planet Earth, a 90-minute vanity documentary that with its smoky concert footage and its behind-the-scenes clips of his band noodling about and the artist himself pensively staring out at the ocean is exactly like one of those stoner rock movies shown at midnight screenings in the '70s. Actually, make that midnight horror rock flicks: With his platform shoes and dreads, Lenny Kravitz on stage often bears an amusing resemblance to the alien in Predator. C

