I saw Be Kind, Rewind this weekend, Michel Gondry's paean to the do-it-yourself ethos of VHS movie-making. The movie certainly has its flaws; as with most of Gondry's writing, the script doesn't really move forward so much as inhabit an eclectic imaginative space. Gondry plays more than he shapes or hones, and Be Kind, Rewind should really use some more honing.
But I did appreciate his nostalgia for cultural community grounded in, you know, the real world. (The existence of such community in present-day Passaic, NJ, marks, sadly, the most unrealistic facet of the movie.)
Via GPC though, I found this nice homage to the culture of used books, tape trading, and bootleg VHS.