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wj15 t1_j6g6ra8 wrote

Hearing about this documentary has taken me down memory lane. So I’ll share. I used to work at Kim’s Video on Bleecker Street in the 1990’s. $5.50 an hour and free rentals. It was a wonderful time. But man, those of us who worked there were so pretentious. There was a section called “Masters of Light” and if someone came in and like asked for an Bergman film cos they couldn’t find it with the rest of his films on the shelves, staff would get snotty and be like, “No, that film is placed in the Masters of Light section, don’t you even know who Sven Nykvist is?” I’ve read that one of my former coworkers is interviewed in the documentary. He talks about the FBI raiding the store several times. But that only happened once. I worked later that afternoon and virtually all the VHS tapes of Chinese films were gone. Sometimes on payday, Mr Kim’s brother, Ted, would take money out of your paycheck as fines for what he deemed infractions. After doing that to one of my coworkers, she called her friends to come shopping at the store and would sell them 10 movies for the price of one. She cleared out her register and left. But she still continued to visit the store on a regular basis after that.

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