I’m not a movie buff, but I play one at Scarecrow Video. I walk through the doors of the University District shop and nod in recognition at a cardboard cutout from 1988’s The Great Outdoors—underrated John Candy classic—and spot Danny DeVito’s face on the cover of Steven Spielberg’s near-forgotten series Amazing Stories. I count the options behind the shelf tag for Tajikistan (it’s four). Scarecrow is a veritable trove of VHS and DVDs; it’s Aladdin’s fabled treasure cavern but for copies of Aladdin. (If I were a real cinephile, I’d probably cite something like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.)
When Scarecrow opened in 1988 with just 600 titles,
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