March 8, 2026 at 10:50 PM
“Videoheaven,” Alex Ross Perry’s teeming new documentary, is an engrossing compilation of clips from more than 100 movies (and a few TV shows) in which video stores are depicted.
Video Stores, Revival Houses, and the Future of Movies
The documentary “Videoheaven” and MOMA’s series “A Theater Near You” consider how people watch films and why it matters.
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June 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“Videoheaven,” Alex Ross Perry’s teeming new documentary, is an engrossing compilation of clips from more than 100 movies (and a few TV shows) in which video stores are depicted.
I miss video stores...
A Reader & A Cinephile: My Review of “Videoheaven” — Natetheworld buff.ly/N6OfvvP
A Reader & A Cinephile: My Review of “Videoheaven” — Natetheworld buff.ly/N6OfvvP
A Reader & A Cinephile: My Review of “Videoheaven” — Natetheworld
Hey friends, welcome to another episode of A Reader & A Cinephile. This time around, I want to recommend a documentary I cannot get off my mind. The film? 2025’s “Videoheaven.”
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September 25, 2026 at 4:47 PM
I miss video stores...
A Reader & A Cinephile: My Review of “Videoheaven” — Natetheworld buff.ly/N6OfvvP
A Reader & A Cinephile: My Review of “Videoheaven” — Natetheworld buff.ly/N6OfvvP
A truly excellent @kphipps3000.bsky.social rumination today on video stores, inspired by Alex Ross Perry's VIDEOHEAVEN and the Criterion Channel VHS series. Not a nostalgia piece, but a more clear-headed remembrance of a bygone era. (Also free to read!): thereveal.film/ghosts-of-vi...
Ghosts of Video Stores Past
The Alex Ross Perry documentary ‘Videoheaven’ and an accompanying Criterion Channel series explore our sometimes fraught relationship with videotapes and the stores that rented them.
thereveal.film
March 10, 2026 at 2:40 PM
A truly excellent @kphipps3000.bsky.social rumination today on video stores, inspired by Alex Ross Perry's VIDEOHEAVEN and the Criterion Channel VHS series. Not a nostalgia piece, but a more clear-headed remembrance of a bygone era. (Also free to read!): thereveal.film/ghosts-of-vi...
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch the exclusive streaming premiere of Alex Ross Perry's VIDEOHEAVEN (2025). Now playing in our VHS Forever collection! 📼 ❤️
Cultural hub, consumer mecca, and source of existential dread: the video-rental store forever changed the way we interact with movies.
Cultural hub, consumer mecca, and source of existential dread: the video-rental store forever changed the way we interact with movies.
March 2, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch the exclusive streaming premiere of Alex Ross Perry's VIDEOHEAVEN (2025). Now playing in our VHS Forever collection! 📼 ❤️
Cultural hub, consumer mecca, and source of existential dread: the video-rental store forever changed the way we interact with movies.
Cultural hub, consumer mecca, and source of existential dread: the video-rental store forever changed the way we interact with movies.
📼 First look at the trailer for #Videoheaven, Alex Ross Perry’s essay-documentary about the rise and fall of the video store. Narrated by Maya Hawke.
Opens at @ifccenter in New York July 2, and Vidiots in LA August 6, with expansion to follow.
Opens at @ifccenter in New York July 2, and Vidiots in LA August 6, with expansion to follow.
June 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
📼 First look at the trailer for #Videoheaven, Alex Ross Perry’s essay-documentary about the rise and fall of the video store. Narrated by Maya Hawke.
Opens at @ifccenter in New York July 2, and Vidiots in LA August 6, with expansion to follow.
Opens at @ifccenter in New York July 2, and Vidiots in LA August 6, with expansion to follow.
Seeing Videoheaven tonight 😎
October 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Seeing Videoheaven tonight 😎
Videoheaven (2025), directed by Alex Ross Perry boxd.it/RnG0
Videoheaven (2025)
Since the 1980s, the video shop has been a desperately necessary space for film culture. In Videoheaven, Alex Ross Perry tells the story of the neighbourhood video shop to consider wider, changing soc...
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June 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Videoheaven (2025), directed by Alex Ross Perry boxd.it/RnG0
New on @cambridgeday.com! Hong Sangsoo! Wong Kar Wai! Věra Chytilová! Godzilla! Plus a @cine-matographe.bsky.social showcase at @brattletheatre.bsky.social (featuring @filmnerddave.bsky.social & @jlalibs.com) and the local premiere of Alex Ross Perry’s VIDEOHEAVEN!
Digging through the racks of 'VideoHeaven,' finding riches from Spalding Gray to Godzilla - Cambridge Day
A generation of film lovers discovered the medium in the video rental store. Alex Ross Perry’s “VideoHeaven” celebrates that – while our rep theaters maintains the stock, including “Swimming to Cambod...
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August 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
New on @cambridgeday.com! Hong Sangsoo! Wong Kar Wai! Věra Chytilová! Godzilla! Plus a @cine-matographe.bsky.social showcase at @brattletheatre.bsky.social (featuring @filmnerddave.bsky.social & @jlalibs.com) and the local premiere of Alex Ross Perry’s VIDEOHEAVEN!
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched-
This week- Robert Ryan… hero? Former Kid Actors Try Stoner Comedy! And my Videoheaven will be a big Videoheaven! And suck it Tarrantino!
This week- Robert Ryan… hero? Former Kid Actors Try Stoner Comedy! And my Videoheaven will be a big Videoheaven! And suck it Tarrantino!
April 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched-
This week- Robert Ryan… hero? Former Kid Actors Try Stoner Comedy! And my Videoheaven will be a big Videoheaven! And suck it Tarrantino!
This week- Robert Ryan… hero? Former Kid Actors Try Stoner Comedy! And my Videoheaven will be a big Videoheaven! And suck it Tarrantino!
Ooooooh.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCk4...
VIDEOHEAVEN | Official Trailer (2025)
YouTube video by JoBlo Movie Network
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June 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Ooooooh.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCk4...
Watched Videoheaven (2025) and I love the idea that the most positive portrayal of a video store clerk in either film or television is Dawson Creek
August 7, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Watched Videoheaven (2025) and I love the idea that the most positive portrayal of a video store clerk in either film or television is Dawson Creek
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! #lastfourwatched 📽️
April 3, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! #lastfourwatched 📽️
Did a Pride double feature followed by a theatrical event of balletic violence, then a three hour ode to the video rental store #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
June 26, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Did a Pride double feature followed by a theatrical event of balletic violence, then a three hour ode to the video rental store #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
i'm watching a documentary on criterion called "videoheaven" and it is just maya hawke narrating a youtube essay with a budget.
March 15, 2026 at 9:19 PM
i'm watching a documentary on criterion called "videoheaven" and it is just maya hawke narrating a youtube essay with a budget.
Got to see VIDEOHEAVEN on the big screen! Three hours long but I could have watched more. www.imdb.com/title/tt3564...
Videoheaven (2025) ⭐ 7.3 | Documentary, History
2h 53m
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September 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Got to see VIDEOHEAVEN on the big screen! Three hours long but I could have watched more. www.imdb.com/title/tt3564...
You've seen Videoheaven
Now enter Video Hell
FACES OF DEATH 4K restoration
☠️ Order link in comments ☠️
Now enter Video Hell
FACES OF DEATH 4K restoration
☠️ Order link in comments ☠️
April 22, 2026 at 4:34 PM
You've seen Videoheaven
Now enter Video Hell
FACES OF DEATH 4K restoration
☠️ Order link in comments ☠️
Now enter Video Hell
FACES OF DEATH 4K restoration
☠️ Order link in comments ☠️
There are probably a half dozen technological innovation in the last 50 years that we have mostly all welcomed, that played a part in declining social interaction.
Just one example you can see if you watch the doc “Videoheaven”, about the rise and decline of video stores.
Just one example you can see if you watch the doc “Videoheaven”, about the rise and decline of video stores.
My general theory of urban decline is that we have made home too fun. We need to make home more boring for the city to thrive.
April 14, 2026 at 2:32 PM
There are probably a half dozen technological innovation in the last 50 years that we have mostly all welcomed, that played a part in declining social interaction.
Just one example you can see if you watch the doc “Videoheaven”, about the rise and decline of video stores.
Just one example you can see if you watch the doc “Videoheaven”, about the rise and decline of video stores.
just got to see a screening of Alex Ross Perry’s 3-hour video essay about video stores, which essentially makes this argument
Videoheaven (2025)
Since the 1980s, the video shop has been a desperately necessary space for film culture. In Videoheaven, Alex Ross Perry tells the story of the neighbourhood video shop to consider wider, changing soc...
boxd.it
October 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
just got to see a screening of Alex Ross Perry’s 3-hour video essay about video stores, which essentially makes this argument
Alex Ross Perry's new three-hour essay film Videoheaven captures the rise and fall of the video store entirely through clips from films and TV shows. Watch the first trailer ahead of a July 2 release:
First Trailer for Alex Ross Perry’s Videoheaven Captures the Rise and Fall of the Video Store
A late but exciting addition to the July movie calendar is Alex Ross Perry's second release of the year. The three-hour essay film/documentary Videoheaven takes a comprehensive, staggering look at the...
thefilmstage.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Alex Ross Perry's new three-hour essay film Videoheaven captures the rise and fall of the video store entirely through clips from films and TV shows. Watch the first trailer ahead of a July 2 release:
watching Videoheaven (2025) and I keep thinking about how nobody really has to make what they consume public anymore with streaming and how much that turns off any shame for consuming slop
March 22, 2026 at 5:05 AM
watching Videoheaven (2025) and I keep thinking about how nobody really has to make what they consume public anymore with streaming and how much that turns off any shame for consuming slop
October 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Re-editing Videoheaven to include the depiction of Little Death's fleshy Blockbuster
August 16, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Re-editing Videoheaven to include the depiction of Little Death's fleshy Blockbuster