The first time I finally dared go into Kim's video, I thought I was ready, so I asked why Blade Runner wasn't in the Ridley Scott section. [Yes, son, back when I was a boy, we had to go all the way to St Marks to rent Blade Runner. Uptown both ways.] Anyway, the clerk scoffed, "Because it's in the Douglas Trumbull section."
Now the Times has an awesome story about how it came to pass that Kim's entire collection of 50,000 films, passionately collected from around the world, will become the centerpiece of an art town being organized in an abandoned hilltop village in Sicily.
I count this as a huge win. I will go to Kim's Salemi ten times before I ever even think of heading to the Village to rent a VHS tape.
La Dolce Video [nyt]
