Anybody thinking about physical media need to certainly understand the story of Kim’sVideo The East Town facility last shut its doors in 2014, though its rental collection (which left New York City in 2008 adhering to the closing of its initial model, Mondo Kim’s) just recently went back to Alamo Drafthouse’s Lower Manhattan area. The story of where the 55,000 movies wound up in between is much complete stranger than one might anticipate and currently its obtained docudrama therapy from David Redmon and Ashley Sabin. After premiering at Sundance in 2015, Drafthouse Films fittingly got the movie for a launch start April 5 and currently the trailer has actually shown up.
John Fink claimed in his evaluation, “A sweeping documentary by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin, Kim’s Video follows the personal-inquiry, man-on-the-street format from their previous works Mardi Gras: Made in China and Girl Model. With Redmon largely remaining behind the scenes, asking questions while holding his camera, the film is simply left to wander where the story takes it: from the cool counterculture of the East Village before eventually turning into a heist film with a mafia connection. Haunted by the ghosts of cinema, Youngman Kim’s collection calls out to David; eventually he’s able to rescue and repatriate it back to Lower Manhattan. Its happy end is known, with a collection of over 55,000 rare VHS tapes and DVDs from the chain’s flagship Mondo Kim’s now available to rent at the Alamo Drafthouse’s lower Manhattan outpost, the Found Footage Festival’s Nick Prueher responsible for the preservation and cataloging of titles. Redmon and Sabin’s Kim’s Video shows us exactly how that deal went down.”
See the trailer listed below.
Kim’s Video opens up on April 5.
