Videoheaven
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| Cinema Conservancy | Release Date: July 2, 2025 |
Summary:
VHS's 1980s rise transformed how people watched movies. Using diverse footage and Maya Hawke's narration, Alex Ross Perry examines video stores' crucial role in film culture.
Genre(s):
History, Documentary
Runtime:
180 min
The Film Stage
Jul 1, 2025
Videoheaven embalms a world of choice, and greater sociality, that was once the cutting edge of modernity and now is history; so it goes. But as the film’s sucker-punch final line confirms, it matters to commemorate it––not because the video “era” was great. It matters because it was a chapter of American life.
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