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Tom Roston

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I Lost it At the Video Store: A Filmmaker’s Oral History of a Vanished Era                    by  Tom Roston  - pub. Critical Press, 164 pages    2015                                                    A nostalgic lament for the video store is at the heart of Tom Roston’s book. The book interviews a broad range of filmmakers, some of whom ( Kevin Smith, Alex  Ross Perry, Quentin Tarantino ) possess double insight as former video store employees and the tides that shaped the video-store era in the 1980s and 90s. - The Globe and Mail

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Good vs. Not-So-Good Documentary Trailers

in Tom Roston's latest post over at the POV blog, he brings attention to the little talked about subject of documentary trailers. it's actually a fair point, because it's something i've never put a great deal of thought into. i'm all for documentaries being treated more like "real" movies, so this makes perfect sense.

Roston cites the trailer for 12 O'Clock Boys as the best documentary trailer he's ever seen. to be honest, i wasn't THAT blown away by it. i find the Planet of Snail trailer much more moving, but that's me. see both below and check out the original post for other good and some not-so-good documentary trailers.

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Documentary directing teams — whether fiancées, best friends, siblings, spouses, or even exes — are standard in an industry not known for its remunerative prospects. On a tight budget two people can do most of the labor on a film, which can take many years to complete. It’s a formula that has proven successful.

Interesting Tom Roston piece in the NY Times about the increasingly-common phenomenon.