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...security forces seized two DVDs. One was samizdat footage of the diamond-encrusted 2006 wedding ceremony of Than Shwe's daughter; the film highlighted the life of privilege led by the country's ruling elite, even as many Burmese struggle to fill their bellies. The other video was a bootleg of the latest in the Rambo film series, which features the aging hero battling the Burmese junta. Apparently, Hollywood action flicks displease the junta just as much as domestically produced comedy...
...shoot in Black’s junkyard.Gondry often brings his whimsical, stylish approach to surreal story arcs. It’s his charming penchant for intensive theater tech that makes “Be Kind Rewind” an aesthetic success. Individual triumphs of innovation and elbow grease, the bootleg movies are the film’s highlights, sugarcoated with all of Gondry’s quirky techniques. Ghosts wield flashlights and wear saran-wrap, while large cheese pizzas stand in for blood and brain matter in makeshift gangster flicks. Classics like “King Kong...
...Wire has drawn an African-American and working-class following. The series has rerun on BET, and Simon recalls riding the A train, which runs through Harlem, on a visit to New York City to edit the show: "There were guys on Monday morning hawking bootleg DVDs of the episode that was on HBO Sunday night. The part of me who has a little pirate hat on his head thought that was pretty cool...
...title song, improved from the great old 1967 bootleg thanks to Neil Young, and also excellent in the Sonic Youth version. Come to think of it, the music in general...
...offense,” said Crimson head coach Tim Murphy. “Statistically, it would suggest that, but they’ve got a complement to everything they do. They’ve got a play action pass for everything they do, they’ve got a bootleg where the quarterback can keep the football, and he’s great with the football in his hands...