After closing our doors in March to assist with social distancing efforts, Scarecrow Video will resume renting titles via our pickup window on Tuesday, May 19. We are asking patrons to phone in their orders, pay with a card (no cash at this time), and pick up their orders at Scarecrow.
Patrons should always check scarecrow.com for the latest information, but for now our plan is:
For those who prefer it, we are still offering our Rental by Mail service (which is now serving 17 states!). Click Here for info on signing up for that program.
We’re very pleased to announce that we’re opening the doors for by-appointment browsing.
Robert Horton is a Scarecrow board member and a longtime film critic. He will be contributing a series of “critic’s notes” to the Scarecrow blog—a chance to highlight worthy films playing locally and connecting them to the riches of Scarecrow’s collection. Read More
This week you’ll find Bob Dylan via Martin Scorsese and Criterion, hard-hitting documentaries (including one to watch instead of 2018’s Green Book), Park Chan-wook before Oldboy, space wars, John Carpenter, Rock Against Racism, and much more!
Robert Horton is a Scarecrow board member and a longtime film critic. He will be contributing a series of “critic’s notes” to the Scarecrow blog—a chance to highlight worthy films playing locally and connecting them to the riches of Scarecrow’s collection.
Movies opening nearabouts, in one way or another. This week I thought I’d do a grab-bag catch-up. Read More
THIS WEEK ON SCARECROW RADIO: Ben and Darcy are joined by friend of the show Emily as we discuss memories of various cinema formats like VR, 4DX, even Smell-O-Vision!
Ralph Macchio doing things other than karate, Béla Tarr’s epic, Marlon Brando’s “stinker” movie, a truth-exposing Filipina journalist, inspiring activists, a possessed tape player, Jordan Peele, and more!
Robert Horton is a Scarecrow board member and a longtime film critic. He will be contributing a series of “critic’s notes” to the Scarecrow blog—a chance to highlight worthy films playing locally and connecting them to the riches of Scarecrow’s collection.
The latest from Jesse V. Johnson and Scott Adkins, Luis Buñuel’s surrealism, Doris Day’s first film, original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling in a slasher, and more!
THIS WEEK ON SCARECROW RADIO: Ben and Darcy are joined by a friend of the show, Malakie, for a look back at our favorite watches of 2020!
This week you’ll find an outback noir, a mad Liam Neeson, borrowed and stolen treasures, the Marx Brothers in Casablanca, Holocaust survivors finding healing through music, and more.
by Sage Cruser
Nina Menkes’ Queen of Diamonds (1991) is among the best films I’ve watched this year. At its conclusion, I’m left with a sensorial reeling unlike any I’ve experienced with other films. That’s something to at least attempt to write about, although I’m sure I’ll fall short of all that could and should be expressed – my certainty here stemming from the fact that in many ways, I find the experience of watching it comparable to when I wake up from a nap on a sweltering afternoon and can’t quite manage to orient myself for the rest of the day; remnants of my dreams still linger in my mind, popping up at unexpected moments and luring me back. Comparable, of course, only if that groggy haze includes some of the most beautiful images I’ve ever seen and leaves my jaw hanging open in something akin to awe but perhaps closer to mystification.