Alex Ross Perry’s new film “Videoheaven” is a unique achievement – an ode to video stores that elegantly charts the rise of the local video store, its expansion and corporatization and the ultimate ...

Director Alex Ross Perry and editor Clyde Folley tell IndieWire about putting together their video essay film on the rise and fall of the video store. Perry and editor Clyde Folley have watched movies ...

The small joy of getting lost in a video store for hours has become harder and harder to come by over the past decade. It’s this feeling, trying to recapture a once key part of movie culture, that ...

Part eulogy for a bygone commercial space, part rigorous investigation of its origins and subsequent representation in popular culture, Alex Ross Perry’s Videoheaven leaves virtually no stone unturned ...

Perhaps no line of dialogue better encapsulates lived experience than this bon mot offered by John Huston’s Noah Cross: “Of course I’m respectable. I’m old! Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all ...

"This is the story of the birth, life, death, and afterlife of the video store." An offiical trailer has debuted for a documentary film / essay film titled Videoheaven, a tribute to and love story ...

Nonfiction filmmaking is in something of a rut, with funding drying up for nearly everything except true crime and celebrity biopics. Filmmaker Alex Ross Perry makes the most of this reality with ...

A documentary by Alex Ross Perry examines how movies and TV have portrayed video store culture. By Ben Kenigsberg Part spoof and part serious, the film is about mythmaking as much as it is about music ...

There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in "Lethal Weapon 3," a tracking shot, that isn't meant to draw any kind of attention to itself. But it did draw the eye of director Alex Ross Perry and ...