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March 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Video Store Homily

I worked in a video store – but only for a few weeks. I wish it was longer. But it was still a good time. And this was in the time of VHS tapes. Actual videos. I’d grown up, in some sense, in the video stores of New Zealand. Renting anything that needed to be […]

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June 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Movies of My Life # 17: Beverly Hills Cop 

I still go to the video store. And yes, it’s still called a Video Store. We rent/borrow DVDs – we do this because it’s convenient. The store (the last of its kind still standing in our town) is just down the road/just around the corner. And though I never meant for this to happen – […]

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August 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Tom Roston: I Lost It At The Video Store – A Filmmakers’ Oral History of a Vanished Era

I Lost It At The Video Store: A Filmmakers’ Oral History of a Vanished Era Tom Roston The Critical Press This well-intentioned, slim volume aims to bring together a range of voices around the idea of the local video store being the birth place of modern independent cinema and indie-filmmaking; most famously Quentin Tarantino and […]