Chris Rose, Austin, Teksas, the independent video store I Luv Video, he remembers the days he worked with love.
He was in his 20s, and before he went to New York, he graduated from Texas University in Austin and finally worked as a producer at the Daily The Daily Show.
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Now a LA -based writer, director and producer Rose remembers the cult odds of the 41 -year -old Austin store and the eclectic product range of world cinema.
Bir It was an indie video store with a magnificent hip with almost every movie you might want, or he says. “They would have had British or Japanese imports that you could not get in the United States yet. It was really a really special place.”
Stephen King’s 1986 horror film “Maximum Overdrive” plays Hitachi television in Rose in the 1970s in Craigslist.
Rose’s thoughtful curator film categories are changing from month to month, including personnel choices.
Although he no longer visits the video store, Rose doesn’t have to go too far to rent these days because it brings a distinctive collection to the kitchen of the single bedroom bungalow in Silver Lake containing a small backyard.
The idea of a personal kitchen video, which is the micro version of an old video store, came to him one day while working on the laptop at the kitchen table.
“When I worked in the video store, we would put bad Stephen King movies in the background and pay attention to half,” says the “maximum overdrive” game next to the refrigerator in the 1970s.
Considering this, he thought it would be fun to play movies in the background while working from home. “This is a very strange dead zone, or he points to the area next to his kitchen. “He needed something because he wasn’t big enough to be a dining room and wasn’t small enough to be part of a normal kitchen.”
Kitchen video products in the kitchen.
Rose Kitchen exhibits the video membership card. There is still a rental card that broke the box office records when I was a child.
On more than 20 thoughtful curators full of dozens of VHS cassette, Rose put a sign of the bold red font that says “kitchen video”. The sign serves as a fun title for the dual function of the space that reminds visitors not only in a kitchen, but also a video rental library.
Like video and blockbuster, Rose, like more traditional video rental stores, chooses staff favorites every month. The category of this month says Siberpunk or “Internet scary ,,“ Net ”,“ Fear Dot Com ”and“ Johnny Mnemonic ”.
“Someone’s fact is still one of the funniest things ever so far,” he says.
Obviously, for Rose, discovering amazing and strange movies is part of the fun of creating your own video library, and the understanding of personal taste and humor in the election process is clear.
His favorite category? An interesting film selection such as “comedies with white backgrounds”, “there is something about Mary”, “Three Amigos” and “Kung Fu Hustle”.
“This is a trend,” he says with a cartilage.
Rose’s VHS band collection is reflected in a decorative tiger mirror in the kitchen. Rose added some drama to the rent by adding the flower shell and sticking wallpaper to the wall behind the mirror.
In VHS, copies of “Miami Vice” are exhibited in the kitchen.
Other categories include a collection of what Rose describes as “Basic Instinct”, “Moonstruck” and “Wild Heart”.
In fact, the personal criterion of the badly examined films contains “Con Air”, “face/closed” and “Point Break”. For the film school category, Rose chose cliché films such as “Harold and Maude”, “Last Picture Show” and “Chinatown” at the film school. And then Rose has a shore from the ship where Rose is trying to switch from Pauly Shore to “Encino Man ..
“This is the largest, or he says. “It took me three hours to understand. Let each film be a director, actor or a screenwriter – I wanted to make a logical leap.
And of course, the Texas native could not resist the division of a shelf on the kitchen door to classics such as “Friday Night Lights”, “Clerk”, “Dazed and Confused”, “Paris, Texas” and “Tender Mercy”.
Vintage cowboy boots Rose bought NM Santa Fe on one of the road trips to Los Angeles.
(Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)
Rose’s most valuable property: The illuminated sphere of his grandfather.
Although the kitchen video is not open to the public, Rose invites her friends to “control, and even bought old VCR players to watch the video library elections at home. In his enthusiasm, he admits that he goes “a little to the sea ve and created his own line of goods: kitchen video hats, aprons, tote bags and membership cards.
However, this is not his only video store membership card. There is still a rental card that breaks the box office records from childhood, where the renting of a film like “Rushmore”, “upgrade to Arizon” and “graduates çalış has opened a whole new world.
Im I lived in a small town in Texas, so the movies were nothing beyond playing the theater that week, or he says. “So it was really exciting to dig a box office records and dig to discover these hidden jewels.”
The apartment has all the signatures of Rose’s style, which he describes as “Southwest Marfa Vibe Meets Eclectic Savings Store discoveries”.
In the bedroom, vintage cowboy boots, hats arranged properly on the wall below. In the living room, the portraits of Willie Nelson and Hank Williams adorn the walls next to a cow, nm, an antique store and the bennington flag.
It started when he moved from New York to La, but he held a coffee table made of the wreckage of the Hurricane Sandy.
In the living room, the portraits of Willie Nelson and Hank Williams are exhibited with the number art, photographs, Georgia O’keeFfe -style cow skull and Bennington flag.
Austin group Cactus Lee’nin in the background defining the style of “one of my friends ‘pressed cowboy’ he said.“ I really try to bring together, but always a little irony or with the tongue on the cheek. ”
However, something is serious, the illuminated sphere of his grandfather. “If my apartment is burning, this is what I will catch, or he says.
In spite of the more videos in the closet, Rose observes that she has only invested in movies that make a chord with her and plans to visit again. For rare findings, he cleans the internet and local points like Whammy in Echo Park, but during the road trips between Texas and Los Angeles, he has a special place in his heart, goodwill and saving stores.
Like the kitchen video, the themes of film stretches throughout the apartment where David Byrne, a Pop Art Picture and Brandon Bird, pays $ 2,060 per month, including a print of Pop Art Picture and Brandon Bird.
Recently, Rose has begun to collect the sound tapes she played in an old boom box completed with an antenna.
“Nostalgic, Rose says Rose analog technology. “This is the reason everyone collects vinyl. I have Netflix and Spotify, but there is a real satisfaction when doing something physically.”
In summer, Rose likes to host outdoor film nights in the backyard of Silver Lake.
A screen hanging in the backyard, the 1996 film “Bottle Rocket” is ready for an upcoming screening.
In the summer, Rose finds equally satisfactory to host film nights for friends in the backyard. It is a luxury that he appreciates after living in a studio apartment in New York for ten years. “This is the most nervous part: I found a way to connect VCR to a modern projector, so I can scan movies from VCR, or he says.
Most film nights choose familiar but also unexpected popular movies. In his latest show, he showed Doug Liman’s 1996 film Swingers in Los Angeles, and plans to exhibit Wes Anderson’s first film Bot Bottle Rocket an for his upcoming meeting.
This does not mean that there is no room for Films B, which are “magnificent wild and bad”.
“Grizzly Adams” from the 1990 film Dan Haggerty from the fame, “I bought this VHS ‘Repo Jake’ because I bought.” “According to the box, our hero Jake, ‘a vicious crime lord, the gang of angry car owners and a sadistic porn ring, which contains supersonic actions.’ ‘
“This can be perfect for a scanning, Cine Cinephile underlines the joy of discovering a very bad film.
