I Lost It At the Video Store - xld: A Filmmakers' Oral History of a Vanished Era
A Movies, Culture, Nonfiction book. This was a brief but pithy look into the lost world of video stores and the...
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.
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Great book about a lost era and a great period. This was a brief but pithy look into the lost world of video stores and the influence working in them and having access to so many VHS copies of movies had on the upcoming generation of filmmakers back in the 80s and 90s. The breezy chapters consist of interviews from such turn of the 21st century cinematic luminaries as Quentin Tarantino,... Received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.Ahhhh the video store. And all the nostalgia that it brings. Im a video store geek. I even married the guy behind the counter. I spent many days wandering up and down aisles, playing this endless game of You cant consider yourself a critic if you havent seen XXX yet. Each...
