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description: For a generation video stores were to filmmakers what bookstores were to writers. They were the salons where many of todays 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 todays film world sprung. Video stores were also the financial engine without which the indie film movement wouldnt have existed.In I Lost it at the Video Store Tom Roston interviews the filmmakersincluding John Sayles Quentin Tarantino Kevin Smith Darren Aronofsky David O. Russell and Allison Anderswho 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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title: I Lost It At the Video Store: A Filmmakers' Oral History of a Vanished Era
publisher: The Critical Press