I Lost It at the Video Store [Expanded Edition]: A Filmmakers' Oral History of a Vanished Era

Download * I Lost It at the Video Store [Expanded Edition]: A Filmmakers Oral History of a Vanished Era PDF by * Tom Roston eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. I Lost It at the Video Store [Expanded Edition]: A Filmmakers Oral History of a Vanished Era Review of the Kindle version This book is a light read and it can be finished in half a day by a slow reader, but it is a worthwhile read for those who can relate to the 80s and 90s home video phenomenon. It begins with a terrific introduction by Tom Rostin who gives an overview of the history and significance of home video, especially VHS tapes. It ends with a reprint of a NY Times article on the closing of Kims Video store in Manhattan. The bulk of the book are transcripts (with editing) of s

Author	:	Tom Roston
Rating	:	4.94 (922 Votes)
Asin	:	1546854835
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	180 Pages
Publish Date	:	2017-04-08
Language	:	English

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Review of the Kindle version This book is a light read and it can be finished in half a day by a slow reader, but it is a worthwhile read for those who can relate to the 80s and 90s home video phenomenon. It begins with a terrific introduction by Tom Rostin who gives an overview of the history and significance of home video, especially VHS tapes. It ends with a reprint of a NY Times article on the closing of Kim's Video store in Manhattan. The bulk of the book are transcripts (with editing) of several conversations with filmmakers and film executives who recount how the home video business in the 80s and 90. Sebastian Zavala said Made me very nostalgic. This book's been receiving some harsh reviews, stating it's not as deep as it could've been. Well, yeah, it kinda only touches the surface of the subject, and yeah, the interviews are not very well balanced. We get a lot of Kevin Smith, for example, and quite a bit of Quentin Tarantino, but people like James Franco or Luc Besson only appear sporadically.Nevertheless, I really liked this book. Being a "90s kid", I'm really nostalgic about the whole video store sub-culture, even though here in Peru we only had Blockbuster and a couple other options (West Coast Video and Drugstore . "A short but fun nostalgia ride into video stores" according to Anthony. I knew I was going to enjoy this book going in. The subject matter of a nostalgia ride with some of my favourite directors as the guide for video stores through the 80s, 90s & early 2000s just stood out to me.My main nostalgia for video stores was in the late 90s with VHS & most of the 2000s with DVDs until the Internet took over as my delivery mechanism. Two of the three video stores I used to frequent are long shut down. The last one puzzles me as to how it can be still in business.Anyway this book is short but sweet. Full of stories from great directors of the video store era

This expanded edition includes a foreward by acclaimed filmmaker Richard Linklater (Boyhood) and a new appendix of conversations between Roston and various actors, directors, producers, and programmers (including Doug Liman, Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Angela Robinson, Tim League, Burnie Burns, and more) about the past and future of film distribution and culture.. 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 In I Lost it at the Video Store, Tom Roston interviews the filmmakers–including John Sayles, Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Darren Aronofsky, David O. Selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best indie books of 2015. "Thi

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. "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

Tom Roston is a journalist whose work appears in The New York Times, The Guardian, Salon and The Hollywood Reporter, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn. . A former senior editor at Premiere magazine, he also writes a regular blog about documentaries for PBS’ award-winning POV website. Richard Linklater (Foreward) is an Academy Award-nominated direct