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Requiem for a Video Store

We look at the legend of Kim's Video, the decline of video stores and the passing of the fabled video store clerk turned self-taught director.

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Posted October 20th, 2008, 9:10 AM by Alison Willmore

Kim’s Video, the venerable New York City store famous for its massive, esoteric and not always legal collection of movies as well as its judgmental staff, is shutting down its rental business. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at the legend of Kim’s, the decline of video stores in general, and, with it, the passing of the fabled video store clerk turned self-taught director.

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Tags: Clerks, Kevin Smith, Kim's Video, Quentin Tarantino, video stores

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