![]() ![]() (Its French title, L’argent de poche, translates more accurately to “pocket money,” but to avoid confusion with a Paul Newman-Lee Marvin drama of that name, the title was altered.) Small Change is probably my favourite film by Nouvelle Vague mainstay François Truffaut, a filmmaker who I had first discovered at Videoflicks. The moment is especially fitting for a film shot in Toronto, a town that often disguises itself as other cities on film.īut the title I was most surprised to find within my requested batch was Small Change. In the film, the actor enters a Queen Video location in Cabbagetown, although that store never existed. It would dawn on me a couple of days after buying this disc how that film wouldn’t be quite the same without its inciting incident, when Gyllenhaal’s haggard professor decides to take out a film from a video store and discovers his doppelgänger playing a background character. Soon after picking up those films, I would realize that I had rented both of those films from that local purveyor of culture many years earlier.Īlso packed in the pile was the Denis Villeneuve thriller Enemy, a dizzying character study bolstered by Jake Gyllenhaal’s riveting dual performances. I was surprised that customers hadn’t yet snatched two of the most enduring films from 1975: Jaws and Dog Day Afternoon. Indeed, it was there, stacked on top of the pile. I was pretty sure the store would have a copy of When Marnie Was There, an overlooked title from the Studio Ghibli pantheon. When I had arrived to pick up the discs in late September, I didn’t know which of the coveted classics would be included within that treasure trove of used goods. In the two weeks since the liquidation sale began in earnest, about half of the store’s total stock was gone. ![]() ![]() In the week before the sale began, around half of my selections were still in stock. I greedily forwarded a list of 30 titles. Not long before the liquidation sale began, I emailed the video store’s owners, Joe Carlino and Steve Cohen, hoping to lay claim to DVDs to add to my admittedly sparse collection. (That launch marked three months before the video store’s ultimate closure on the last day of 2017.) Even before then, sales were good. and Lawrence Ave., started selling off their library of around 30,000 classic films to the public. It was only two weeks since Videoflicks, a staple of uptown Toronto near the intersection of Avenue Rd. The first thing I noticed was that some of the shelves in the basement had disappeared. Clicking rewind: Saying goodbye to my neighbourhood video storeīy Jordan Adler Volume 22, Issue 1 / January 2018 18 minutes (4423 words) ![]()
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