West LA, in Westside
Cinefile Video
Cinema · 11280 Santa Monica Blvd
A video store on Santa Monica Boulevard in West LA, one of the last rental counters left in the country, selling used discs and taking Criterion pre-orders.
The business is rental and retail rather than exhibition. Shelves are organized the way a video store was organized before an algorithm did it for you, by director and country and format, and the used section is priced to move.
It sits on the same block of Santa Monica Boulevard as the Nuart, a few doors along, which is why the two tend to get mentioned in the same breath. What it books is films you cannot stream.
