For fellow film lovers who, upon discovering the recent closure of Arcata’s Video Experience — supplier of multi-region-code, rare, cult, imported and otherwise snob-pleasing DVDs — went into a depression darker than
Death’s robe
in
The Seventh Seal
, don’t despair! Your beloved
Janus
,
Tartan
and
Criterion Collection
deluxe edition remastered discs are just moving to Northtown.
La Dolce Video
— that would be, ahem,
a Fellini reference
— is set to open this Friday, August 7, at 1540 G Street, former home of Tranquilitea Wellness Center (that would be, ahem, a hippy pun). Word has it that the VX library was sold to an employee, who is apparently betting/hoping that the DVD business won’t go the way of the CD industry — to which I say, “Bravo!”
This article appears in Stress Fracture.
