Article 5Y8SW ‘There’s still a demand’: Bristol video shop celebrates 40 years in business

‘There’s still a demand’: Bristol video shop celebrates 40 years in business

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Steven Morris
from World news | The Guardian on (#5Y8SW)

20th Century Flicks has been renting out films since 1982 and is surviving the streaming era

Some arrive at the shop seeking rare films impossible to find elsewhere, while others come because they have grown disillusioned with the power of the streaming services and their algorithms. Regulars relish the good-humoured expertise of the movie-mad staff - and are keen to support the last of a dying breed.

Against the odds, 20th Century Flicks, a DVD and VHS rental store in Bristol, has reached a landmark - its 40th anniversary - and is marking the moment with a festival showing films from the year of its opening, 1982.

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