Kim's Video

The director of this doc seemed more obsessed with his own obsession with cinema than anything else. He took almost half of his doc here to insert way too many film clips while waxing on about himself.

It felt like he said to himself one day, "I should make a documentary!" He then picked up a camera and started filming everything until a documentary presented itself to him. Thankfully, for him, it finally DID present itself at almost the halfway point! Yikes!

Kim's was an amazing place. I lived in the Lower East Side entirely through the 1990s when Kim's was booming. I saw a constant stream of celebrities (many could have been used for comment in this doc, but were all absent). I saw Tarantino several times! David Cross personally brought in VHS tapes of Mr. Show when HBO were being jerks about releasing it. Jeez, Nick Zedd was an employee for a bit! Kim's allowed film fans with the most obscure and eclectic tastes to find and watch ANYTHING in a time when every video store in America never even heard of half of Kim's inventory. That impact on the film world was immeasurable.

If only the directory noticed the world around him instead of just his own internal nonsense.