Editing Video Archives (section)

== History ==
Filmmakers [[Quentin Tarantino]],<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/20/the-movie-lover|title=The Movie Lover|first=Larissa|last=MacFarquhar|magazine=The New Yorker|date=13 October 2003 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/reviews/movies|title=Movie Reviews|date=July 16, 2020|work=[[New York Times]]}}</ref> [[Roger Avary]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiki.tarantino.info/index.php/Roger_Avary|title=Roger Avary - The Quentin Tarantino Archives|date=2008-05-11|publisher=tarantino.info|access-date=2015-11-22}}</ref> and [[Daniel J. Snyder|Daniel Snyder]]<ref name="LAT">{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-18-et-scriptland18-story.html|title=Producers, writers face huge chasm|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=July 18, 2007|first=Jay A.|last=Fernandez}}</ref> worked at Video Archives before becoming successful in the film industry. The store was also frequented by screenwriters [[Josh Olson]], [[Jeff Maguire]], [[John Langley]], and [[Danny Strong]].

Video Archives closed in 1995, and Tarantino purchased its video inventory and rebuilt the store in his home.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Grow |first1=Kory |title=Ex-Video Store Clerks Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary Launch Podcast to Talk VHS Tapes |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/ex-video-store-clerks-quentin-tarantino-roger-avary-launch-podcast-to-talk-vhs-tapes-1362035/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=17 August 2022 |date=2 June 2022}}</ref>

In a 1994 interview with ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', Tarantino called it "the best video store in the Los Angeles area", saying "Video Archives is like LA.’s answer to the ''[[Cahiers du Cinéma]]''".<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Wild |first=David |date=1994-11-03 |title=Quentin Tarantino: The Madman of Movie Mayhem |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/quentin-tarantino-the-madman-of-movie-mayhem-186995/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref> In 1992, Roger Avary described it as "less a video store than a film school [...] we'd have these intense, eight-hour-long arguments about cinema. Customers would walk in and they'd get into it. It became this big clubhouse of film making—and probably the best film-making experience anyone could ever get."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mcalevey |first=Peter |date=1992-12-06 |title=All's Well That Ends Gruesomely |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/06/magazine/alls-well-that-ends-gruesomely.html |access-date=2024-04-08 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Video Archives is also the namesake of the Video Archives Cinema Club, the 20-seat micro-cinema at the Tarantino-owned [[Vista Theatre (Los Angeles)|Vista Theatre]].