Platform DVD Reviews: DVDs have been both bad and good

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DVD Reviews: DVDs have been both bad and good for Jia Zhang-ke, Chinese writer-director of "Platform" and the just-released "The World." The advent of pirated discs across his homeland meant his work and those of fellow Chinese artists were being stolen. But, as Jia observes in an interview, it also meant that his films could be seen by a wider public.

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