A 2023 documentary about the famed video store which resided in Downtown Manhattan. Having never gone but a close friend would rent the occasional cinematic oddity (he once got me a copy of the workprint for John Woo's Hard Target) from there which due to the tenor of the times went the way of the dodo (like most other video stores) but what kept customers coming back again & again was the eclectic selection they provided but when time came for the business to shutter its doors & its acolytes were worried where the treasure trove of filmic ephemera would go, a surprising wrinkle to the story emerged, as evidenced by the filmmaker, David Redmon. Redmon learned the entire collection would be shipped off to a remote town in Italy under the agreement they would curate the films as an exhibition for travelers to see & even extend a courtesy to former customers who still wanted to rent the occasional vid to make a pilgramage for that purpose. To Redmon's horror when he did manage to find the facility which housed the tapes, water was leaking on some of them from the ceiling & no straight answer was given as to what was going on. What follows is a months long gambit for Redmon to track down 'the' Mr. Kim (who lived in New Jersey & was an aspiring filmmaker in his own right), the custodians of the collection & see if a new deal to bring the tapes back to America could be brokered. Starting off as a proper tribute to a by gone era soon morphs into the loopiest heist escapade any doc has ever seen w/the audience ringside to see the lunacy play itself out.
