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T O N I T E ! Embrace the bitter and the sweet — and leave with your soul right in tact, like it's supposed to be... And you'll have it back, like you like it..

TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 7:30pm, — 
Taradrome presents AFTER LIFE (1998). 

Our now-beloved director Hirokuzu Kore-Eda (SHOPLIFTERS, STILL WALKING) released his tender and wildly imaginative first fictional film, AFTER LIFE, the same year that Videodrome opened, and we've been recommending it ever since. It's appropriate to finish our current series, Liminal Loss & Love, with a movie that takes place entirely in the most iconic of liminal spaces: purgatory. Some like it there, most have to leave, and a few can't decide…

If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That’s the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo realm where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. 

AFTER LIFE’s high-concept premise is grounded in Kore eda’s documentary-like approach to the material, which he shaped through interviews with hundreds of Japanese citizens. What emerges is a panoramic vision of the human experience—its ephemeral joys and lingering regrets—and a quietly profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze time.

Recommended if you like Michel Gondry, Powell & Pressburger, Spike Jonze… 

Join us for this Videodrome favorite on the big screen! 

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Sidewalk Sale Sunday June 14th 10am-3pm in the Videodrome parking lot!

We’ve acquired a private collection of over 2500 dvds and Blu-rays. This collection is heavy on sci-fi, horror, classics, suspense, and TV. There’s a sprinkling of Asian cinema and 4k discs.

For those of you that came to our previous sidewalk sale and had to wait in a big line, we are going to do our best to spread the tables out this time and make it more comfortable and convenient.

Plus, will have a selection of vintage movie posters for purchase.

All the way back in 2017 one of our regular customers came in with a handwritten list of film noirs. Since then, week to week, he’s been coming by and checking them off one by one! Nine years, four sheets of notebook paper, and 274 dvds later, today he finally finished the list!

It’s amazing how much our Film Noir section has grown in the intervening years. A brand new 4K restoration of one of our favorites The Big Combo, just hit the new wall this week! Stop by for new discoveries, new restorations, and new favorites arriving all the time. 🎞️

TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 7:30pm, — 
Taradrome presents AFTER LIFE (1998). 

Our now-beloved director Hirokuzu Kore-Eda (SHOPLIFTERS, STILL WALKING) released his tender and wildly imaginative first fictional film, AFTER LIFE, the same year that Videodrome opened, and we've been recommending it ever since. It's appropriate to finish our current series, Liminal Loss & Love, with a movie that takes place entirely in the most iconic of liminal spaces: purgatory. Some like it there, most have to leave, and a few can't decide…

If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That’s the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo realm where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. 

AFTER LIFE’s high-concept premise is grounded in Kore eda’s documentary-like approach to the material, which he shaped through interviews with hundreds of Japanese citizens. What emerges is a panoramic vision of the human experience—its ephemeral joys and lingering regrets—and a quietly profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze time.

Recommended if you like Michel Gondry, Powell & Pressburger, Spike Jonze… 

Join us for this Videodrome favorite on the big screen! 

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has provided us with a gorgeous print of his 2001 genre defying film THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT that we’ll be screening at this Thursday’s Plazadrome. Hope you can join us!

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Matt Owensby started working at a Blockbuster Video in the year 2000, one of the last generations fortunate enough to have ‘Video Store Clerk’ available as a viable high school occupation.

He’d drive from the suburbs to rent at the ‘cool’ video store — bugging the employees to recommend stacks of VHS tapes long enough that he was invited to step behind the counter over 20 years ago.

Now after two decades of loyal video service, he’s turning in his badge and punch-card stamp and moving to Cincinnati, a city that currently has zero video stores. 

Join Owensby and the Videodrome crewfor one last hurrah as he brings one of his favorite video store discoveries to the big screen in Atlanta for the first time in decades.

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Plazadrome presents THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT, Thursday 5/21 9pm at !

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Simply put, The American Astronaut is the best “semi-autobiographical musical space western” that you’ll ever see. It’s true that this is not an especially crowded field, but even if there were hundreds of semi-autobiographical musical space westerns, this would still be the best one.

Join space cowboy Samuel Curtis as he ping-pongs between planets to deliver a new human stud to Venus, a planet populated only by women. The American Astronaut was written, directed, and starring Cory McAbee — three of many hats he wore in this singular, otherworldly adventure.

It’s the kind of movie that video stores were made for. A passion project that only gets better with age. A long-tail oddity that grows through word-of-mouth, converting skeptical audiences into hooting and hollering galactic cowpokes by the time credits roll.

Never released on blu-ray and long out-of-print on DVD, this screening is a rare opportunity to see one of the best American independent films of this (or any) generation. Even if you think you don’t like semi-autobiographical musical space westerns, that’s just because you haven’t seen The American Astronaut yet.

New To The Store 4/14/26 to 4/28/26

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Plazadrome, , and present a unique film screening/book signing combo event with author and podcaster . We’ll be screening David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999) and Lucca will be signing copies of her 2024 book David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials.

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12pm: David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials book signing in The Atlanta Film Festival Green Room with books provided by .

1pm: eXistenZ (1999) film screening followed by a Q&A between and Violet Lucca.

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Violet Lucca on Cronenberg and eXistenZ:

Cronenberg’s first original screenplay since Videodrome, eXistenZ’s elliptical, matryoshkalike narrative structure, legitimately exciting action and sex-ish sequences, and ambiguity make it an equally prescient statement on technology.

About Violet Lucca:

Violet Lucca is the author of the book David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials (Abrams, 2024). Lucca was formerly the Vice President of Digital at Harper’s Magazine and, prior to that, served as Digital Producer for Film Comment. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Criterion’s The Current, Art in America, Defector, Discogs, Sight & Sound, Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, Harper’s Magazine online, the Village Voice, and elsewhere.

About the book:

Clinical Trials is a 2024 illustrated monograph by Violet Lucca that offers a deep, Jungian-inspired analysis of the filmmaker’s work, arguing he is a misunderstood auteur beyond just “body horror”. The book explores recurring themes in Cronenberg’s films like The Fly, Videodrome, and Crimes of the Future, blending critical analysis with interviews and illustrations to present a dreamlike exploration of his cinematic universe.

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Thursday Night! Plazadrome Presents a new 4K restoration of LINDA LINDA LINDA- 4/16 9pm at .

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For Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi, their dream of playing the final high school concert together is dashed when their lead vocalist quits the band. Desperate, they recruit the very first person they see: Korean exchange student Son, played by Doona Bae (THE HOST,BROKER), whose comprehension of Japanese is limited at best. It’s a race against time as the group struggles to learn three songs in three days for the festival’s rock concert.

LINDA LINDA LINDA is an effervescent, tenderhearted snapshot of youth about the unparalleled joy of jamming out with your friends. The soundtrack fuses bangers from iconic Japanese bands The Blue Hearts and Base Ball Bear with original music composed by James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins. The beloved classic from Nobuhiro Yamash*ta (GHOST CAT ANZU) is acknowledged by many as one of the greatest Japanese films of the 21st century. In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the utterly charming and timeless classic returns with an all-new 4K restoration.