Fascinating story of the NYC movie mecca gets lost in other films
, the documentary following the saga of the iconic New York City video store, filmmaker David Redmon says that films are like “our collective memory.” That's a fair reason for his obsession with the collection and making sure it became accessible again.
This might be a great thesis statement for Redmon’s film, except that it is said more or less the same way over and over again. Clearly, this documentary showcases filmmakers Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s love for film and physical media specifically, but it can turn an otherwise interesting and compelling documentary into a rote repetition of the same points and style.
In 2009, the Kim's Video collection of 55,000 films was moved from New York to Salemi, a town in Sicily that promised to act as stewards of the invaluable treasure. Salemi made a lot of promises: that they would not only protect and preserve the movies, but digitize them, make them free to anyone who had a Kim’s Video membership and visited, and even create a “never ending” film fest, screening a different movie from the collection every day indefinitely.
It’s a question that haunts Redmon, and he and Sabin use this film to try and answer it while also resurrecting the old Kim’s Video by interviewing filmmakers, past employees, and even owner and founder Yong-man Kim himself. It’s all standard and mostly enjoyable documentary fare, and Redmon uses a device where he references films directly . While understandable to a point, by the time a misusedreference comes around, it feels like this stylistic choice has overstayed its welcome.
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