I Lost it at the Video Store
A Filmmakers' Oral History of a Vanished Era
by Tom Roston
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Pub Date Sep 24 2015 | Archive Date Nov 05 2015
PR by the Book | The Critical Press
Description
For a generation, video stores were to filmmakers what bookstores were to writers. They were the salons where many of today's best directors first learned their craft. The art of discovery that video stores encouraged through the careful curation of clerks was the fertile, if sometimes fetid, soil from which today's film world sprung. Video stores were also the financial engine without which the indie film movement wouldn't have existed.
In I Lost it at the Video Store, Tom Roston interviews the filmmakers--including John Sayles, Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Darren Aronofsky, David O. Russell and Allison Anders--who came of age during the reign of video rentals, and constructs a living, personal narrative of an era of cinema history which, though now gone, continues to shape film culture today.
Advance Praise
“This is a book that was waiting to happen, and fortunately it was Tom Roston who wrote it. After we lost it at the movies, a later era of cinephiles lost it at the video store, and this is their story in their words—nostalgic, vivid, and important, because video germinated a new generation of great filmmakers.”
—Peter Biskind, author of Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film
“Informative, hilarious, a little sad, but mostly just exuberant: This chronicle of a lost era details not just how the video-rental revolution shaped a generation of filmmakers, but how it changed the ways we watch and talk about film. It may even make you nostalgic for rewinding.” —Stephanie Zacharek, Chief Film Critic, The Village Voice
"A Proustian madeleine of a book, I LOST IT AT THE VIDEO STORE celebrates the images and textures of a nearly-gone era, as well as examining its importance to a generation of artists."—Matt Zoller Seitz, editor-in-chief, RogerEbert.com
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781941629154 |
| PRICE | $25.00 (USD) |
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