Saturday, January 1, 2000

Deals

Limited Time Offer
50% OFF
all unpaid late fees created before 7/1/10.
Offer Expire 12/31/10


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Kept by popular demand


Rent 3 movies for one week $10*

Rent 4 movies for one week $13*

Rent 5 movies for one week $15*

(All movies except new releases, must be rented at the same time, no prepaid)
   
Tuesdays in August
 
Rent 2 get 3rd FREE
keep them the normal rental time
 
(3days/2nights for new releases, ONE WEEK all others)
 and yes, you can use your Prepaid rentals on this deal! 


*the fine print:
  • Not valid with any other offer,
  • if you pick kids movies - free one is also a kid priced movie,
  • if you return them late extra rental day...($2) apply to each movie

Even if you live across town or out of town - there's no excuse to not rent from the BEST video store in San Francisco
especially when the best just got better!

SUPPORT your local independent small (yes, size can fool you) store.






Your satisfaction is important to us and we value your patronage. We could not be celebrating 30 years without you!

Rental Info

We've listened to what you want and have adjusted our rentals accordingly:

- Return movies before CLOSING time
- New Releases are 2 nights / 3 days, making them available more frequently
- One WEEK rental for ALL titles including many new arrival (except New Releases) 7 nights / 8 days
- Low extra day rental: $2.00* per night
- Regular Rate* for all movies if not using Prepaid or Package Deals ($3.99*)

- Early Return Credit (1 point) for New Releases returned the day after they are are rented
- 1 Point for each paid rental
- 10 Points = 1 FREE rental
- Hold your movies by using Prepaid Rentals

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Kept by Popular Demand


Rent 3 movies for one week  $10*

Rent 4 movies for one week  $13*

Rent 5 movies for one week  $15*

(All movies except new releases, must be rented at the same time, no prepaid)


PREPAID DEAL
Purchase our 20 rental package at $70*

COME IN OFTEN... we've added hundreds of hard to find import titles, foreign movies, documentaries, you name it... we're getting it! We have over 1,600  Blu-Ray titles and growing leaps and bounds each week!


Even if you live across town or out of town - there's no excuse to not rent from the BEST video store in San Francisco

SUPPORT your local independent small (yes, size can fool you) store.

 
Your satisfaction is important to us and we value your patronage. We could not be celebrating 32 years without you!

About Us

Le Video, San Francisco's premiere alternative videotape and DVD rental store, was founded in 1980. The owner/founder had fallen in love with cinema while watching the late show on TV as a young girl in France, and had developed her passion during many late nights at the Cinematheque at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. After moving to San Francisco, she looked for some of those old B-movies and Foreign films on videotape. Discovering that most rental outlets were only interested in Hollywood blockbusters, she decided to hunt down the eclectic videos she wanted to see, and rent them to others from a small section in the photography supply store she owned. Eventually the video rental business outgrew the photo supply business, and Le Video, Inc was born.
 
Over time Le Video has expanded to include more than 90,000 rentals, served for a brief period as a part-time, weekend SPCA adoption center, and was featured in an episode of the TV show "Nash Bridges." In the early nineties, as new buyers were brought into the store, we began to acquire an unparalleled collection of Cult, Sci-Fi, Horror, and Independent films to complement our Classics and Foreign selection.We are still dedicated to the same mission that inspired the owner to put those first films out on her shelf at the photo supply store: Providing a comprehensive film selection that also features esoteric, under-seen, under-appreciated, and hard-to-find films that deserve to be seen. We search all over the world for movies that you can't find anywhere else, so that people who feel as strongly about movies as we do have a place to find the movies they love, and discover new cinematic passions.

This year we are celebrating our 30th Anniversary and would like to acknowledge that we could not have accomplished our mission without the loyalty of our customers.


In this day and age, when Netflix and Video On Demand dominate the entertainment market and when many stone and mortar stores including our counterpart in New York - Kim's Video - had to close their doors, we hope that you will make us your primary source of movies so that we can continue to provide you with an unparalleled selection for few more years. Renting only those hard to find titles from us will see this resource vanish. Though we do not get the tax breaks of non-profit, Le Video  has been run like a non-profit for many many years with the only purpose to cater to film connoisseurs and to our neighbors.


If you haven't been in recently, you really have to come down and see for yourself. We think it's more than just a video store, its an experience unlike any other. The recent addition of ONE WEEK RENTAL for all non new releases make it that much easier to rent from us. Watch what you want when you want and support local business ~ Catherine

In The News

What began as a labor of love has garnered the attention of many in and around the San Francisco Bay Area, including the local film communities and news publications. Le Video has received a variety of accolades and awards over the years, and here are some of them.


As we dig through our archives, this page will be updated.



Best Of Award




  • SF Gate "Best Video Store" (2010)
     





  • Bay Guardian Best of the Bay "Best Place to Rent Movies" (2008)
     





  • Sup Mirakami Proclaims Le Video Day (2005) text from Cine101


    Yesterday Le Video celebrated it's 25th birthday with cake, champagne, and popcorn for all. Supervisor Mirakami was on hand with an official San Francisco Board of Sups proclamation naming June 24 LEVIDEO Day. Why? Because, as Mirakami said, in an age of nationwide chains, and Blockbuster Video, one video rental business with a vision is actually making money. Le Video's mantra has always been "to provide a comprehensive film selection that also features esoteric, underseen, underappreciated, and hard-to-find films that deserve to be seen" Take note gang, it's mission was NOT to "provide whatever the customer is willing to pay for". If you've never been there, it's on 9th between Irving and Lincoln, and is guaranteed to blow your mind. Le Video's Certificate of Honor from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (click on link to see the official certificates)




  • SF Weekly's Best of San Francisco "Best Video Rental" (2003)
     





  • CitySearch's Best of San Francisco "Best Video Store" (2000)
     





  • SF Gate "Best Video Store" (2000)
     





  • SF Weekly's Best of San Francisco "Best Video Rental" (2000)
     





  • The Chronicle's Readers' Choice "Best Video Store" (1999)   





  • SF Weekly's Best of San Francisco "Best Video Rental" (1999)   




    • Marin County 7/21/2006 Pacific Sun Article by Jacob Shafer
    GARRISON LYON LOVES movies. He loves them so much that he’s got an active account at five different video stores. In Marin, Lyon picks up DVDs at Video Droid, Silver Screen, Blockbuster and the tiny Forest Knolls outpost Video West. When he’s on the other side of the Golden Gate, he stops off at the famous emporium Le Video, known for its huge inventory and expansive collection of hard-to-find cult and foreign films. "

    • San Francisco Chronicle 10/5/1997 by Edward Guthmann
    In the Bay Area, a growing number of alternative video stores are serving that need and proving that Blockbuster, with its limited selection, bland-looking stores and Top-50 mind-set, is missing the boat. Le Video, the venerable San Francisco store, has generated such a large audience for offbeat movies that it recently opened a second outlet, two doors away from the original, to accommodate the demand.


    Le Video is San Francisco's first, largest and most prominent alternative video store, this retail success story now boasts two locations, two doors apart, and offers 40,000 titles.

    "Our ultimate fantasy is to be another Le Video,'' as quoted per another video store owner...
    Note: This was written before Gordo's snagged our lease and the landlord gave us 30 days to vacate... Thankfully our second and current location was much larger!

    Store Info

    We are located in San Francisco Inner Sunset at:
    1231 9th Ave (between Lincoln Way & Irving St)
    San Francisco, CA 94122

    415-566-3606

    We are open daily from Noon to 11PM







    From East Bay

    • Take 580 West across the Bay Bridge.
    • Take the Fell Street exit.
    • Take Fell Street until it becomes Lincoln Blvd.
    • Follow Lincoln to 9th Ave.

    (There is NO left turn on 9th but you can make a U-turn in the park) From North Bay

    • Across the Golden Gate Bridge.
    • Take the 19th Ave. Turn off.
    • Follow Park Persidio through the park.
    • When you come out of the park it will be 19th Ave.
    • Take a Right on Irving.
    • Take a Right on 20th Ave. and make a 3rd Right on Lincoln Blvd.
    • Take Lincoln To 9th Ave. and make a right on 9th.

    (Parking is scarce in this area. Be prepared to hunt down a spot) From The Peninsula

    • To 19th Ave.
    • Take 19th Ave. to Irving.
    • On Irving take a Right.
    • Follow Irving to 9th Ave. and make a left on 9th.
    • Start looking for parking.
    Bus Routes Nearby

    • 71
    • 43
    • 44
    • 6
    • 66
    • N Judah (muni)