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Video Archives was a video rental store located in
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, and later moved to Hermosa Beach, California, owned and managed by Lance Lawson and Rick Humbert.


History

Filmmakers
Quentin Tarantino Quentin Jerome Tarantino (; born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, and author. Quentin Tarantino filmography, His films are characterized by graphic violence, extended dialogue often featuring much profanity, and references to ...
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Roger Avary Roger Roberts Avary (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his work with Quentin Tarantino on the script for ''Pulp Fiction'' (1994), for which they won Best Original Screenpla ...
and Daniel Snyder worked at Video Archives before becoming successful in the film industry. The store was also frequented by screenwriters Josh Olson, Jeff Maguire, John Langley, and
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. Video Archives closed in 1995, and Tarantino purchased its video inventory and rebuilt the store in his home. In a 1994 interview with ''
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'', Tarantino called it "the best video store in the Los Angeles area", saying "Video Archives is like LA.’s answer to the '' Cahiers du Cinéma''". In 1992, Roger Avary described it as "less a video store than a film school ..we'd have these intense, eight-hour-long arguments about cinema. Customers would walk in and they'd get into it. It became this big clubhouse of film making—and probably the best film-making experience anyone could ever get." Video Archives is also the namesake of the Video Archives Cinema Club, the 20-seat micro-cinema at the Tarantino-owned Vista Theatre.


Podcast

On July 19, 2022, Tarantino and Avary launched a podcast named after Video Archives called ''The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary'', in which they revisit movies from the store and discuss the films. They also discuss the films with producer Gala Avary and guests such as
Eli Roth Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. As a director and producer, he is most closely associated with the horror genre, namely splatter films, having directed the films ''Cabin Fev ...
and former employees of Video Archives.


References


See also

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Cinephilia Cinephilia ( ; also cinemaphilia or filmophilia) is the term used to refer to a passionate interest in films, film theory, and film criticism. The term is a portmanteau of the words '' cinema'' and '' philia'', one of the four ancient Greek words ...
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Postmodernist film Postmodernism encompasses a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely upon previous ways of depicting the worl ...


External links


RIP Video Archives by Adam Groves


* [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/quentin-tarantino-refuses-to-use-netflix-still-records-films-from-tv-to-vhs-cassette-a6669006.html Quentin Tarantino buys Video Archives' inventory]
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