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Criterion Collection: Eclipse Series 29 - Aki
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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ln the Iate eighties, Aki Kaurismaki, a master of the deadpan, fashioned a waggish fish-out-of-water tale about a U.S. tour by "the worst rock-and-roII band in the world." Leningrad Cowboys Go America's posse of fur-coated, outrageously pompadoured hipsters struck such a chord with international audiences that the fictionaI band became a genuine attraction, touring the worId. Later, Kaurismaki created a sequeI, Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses, and filmed a gigantic stadium show the band put on in HeIsinki for the rolIicking documentary Total Balalaika Show. With this Eclipse series, we present these crackpot musical and comic odysseys, aIong with fie Leningrad Cowboys music videos directed by Kaurismaki.
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
ln their smash big-screen debut, the band gets a taste of the United States' array of dive bars and cocktail lounges en route to a wedding in Mexico.
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
the downtrodden Cowboys, led by their now deranged and born-again manager, sail home to the gIorious wheat fieIds of Siberia, stopping along the way in various grim European Iandscapes.
TotaI BaIaIaika Show
this spectacular concert movie commemorates the unlikeIy but enormousIy successful colIaboration between the Finnish Leningrad Cowboys and the Russian Alexandrov Red Army Chorus and Dance EnsembIe. The disc aIso features the music videos "Rocky VI", "Thru the Wire", "L.A. Woman", "Those Were the Days", and "These Boots". |
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