cataloging my trips 2 the figuratively last bricks & mortar video store

anno domini 1723
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dnjrsS3fOk

watched pepi, luci y bom -- p typical almodovar but v. fun y funny as contrasted w/ kika, which really wasnt

no idea where 2 put this so it's just goin here so i dont forget abt it:

http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/07/kenneth-lonergans-margaret-is-finally.html

i loved you can count on me & even really liked ken lonergans commentary on it

i rented:

ken park
chimes at midnight
the devils
labyrinth of passion

teh girl working there was pretty cute, though looked like she listens to best coast

ken park is turrible fyi

<3'd the devils ~ maybe it's just the lead looks a lot al swearengen but i sorta suspect david milch watched this w/r/t deadwood; anyway it is hella tense & the pacing was fab [goes 2 read wiki] jesus @ censorship section

dude that's OLIVER REED

so I guess I don't understand thread title? this is not a brix&mortatr outlet?

is he a big deal? honestly, never heard of him or seen him before

whut. no it physically exists but also has a website i guess

where is it?

O.R. made a ton of Brit & US films in the '60s and '70s -- besides some Ken Russell films he was Bill Sikes in the Oscar-sweeping musical Oliver! -- but eventually became more famous for his legendary drunken behavior.

also one of R.Lester's Three Musketeers

hamden, ct

ok watched oliver reed on letterman on youtube -- dave def thought he was gonna get punched @ the end of that

chimes at midnight was, uh, challenging due to the sound & my dearth of shakespeare knowledge. the battle scene was pretty impressive but a lot of the rest of the style kinda annoyed me

labyrinth of passion wasnt too good, although the song almodovar performs could probably get released by dfa

Bought pola x for $10 from a going out of business video store in Seattle

I've never seen it and lol'd @ this Roger ebert quote on the box:

"feverish! Passionate! Dreamy! I would rather see one movie like this than a thousand Bring It Ons"

great dialogue on the near-extinction of the video store:

http://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/be-kind-remember-alex-ross-perry-and-joe-martin-discuss-the-closing-of-reel-life-south/

but Aaron Hillis reopens one today in Brooklyn:

http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/news/2012/05/film-programmer-aaron-hillis-buys-brooklyn-video-store/

xp <3 that convo, many otms therein

so Blockbuster, who cares never hadda use one, but some related histories/anecdotes:

http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/an-ode-to-brick-and-mortar-blockbuster-video

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20131104/east-village/video-rental-stores-get-creative-stay-afloat-age-of-netflix

I need to go back to Aaron's store, it's been almost a year.
(And shit, they have F Wisemans?)

Alan's Alley, the last Manhattan video rental store I am aware of, on the verge on being leased. I only ventured in once; looked like it was run by the Collyer brothers.

http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2014/03/alans-alley-video.html

Kim's Video to close, maybe move

As great as ‪#‎RSD2014‬ was (thank you all!), sadly we will be closing our store on 1st Ave. No closing date yet but 30% off ALL VIDEO and MUSIC. (all formats and NRs as well).

i need to go back to VFB, the main store profiled here.

http://www.newschoolfreepress.com/2015/12/22/still-standing/

another NYC store update:

http://gothamist.com/2016/03/04/nyc_video_stores.php#photo-1

I was looking for something else today and I stumbled across this. Check out this amazing list of NYC-area video stores (from a September 1984 newspaper ad). pic.twitter.com/CCn5mqUlnm

— Stephen Bowie (@smilingcobra) April 26, 2019