{"product_id":"pause-rewind-obsess-one-mans-one-year-escape-into-cinema","title":"Pause. Rewind. Obsess. One Man’s One Year Escape into Cinema","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePause. Rewind. Obsess. One Man’s One Year Escape into Cinema\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003eby Tim Lucas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e380 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e6x9 size\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e9798887714059\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e  paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003ePRAISE FOR TIM LUCAS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Review in \"Forces of Geek\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ehttps:\/\/forcesofgeek.com\/pause-rewind-obsess-one-mans-one-year-escape-into-cinema-review\/   (Reviewed by Steven Thompson)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e“One of the pioneers of serious genre film criticism.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e- Barry Forshaw, CrimeTime.co.uk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e“Tim pretty much invented video reviewing as a genre distinct from movie reviewing.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e- Dave Kehr, of \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe New York Times and The Chicago Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e“For this legendary critic, no aspect of filmmaking is unimportant, whether finding hidden homages to films past, subtle edits that propel the viewer forward, or a foreshadowing that opens or closes the loop on a director’s career. A chance to revisit these important writings is not to be missed.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e- David Colton, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eformer editor at USA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e“I wrote a whole prose chapter describing Rick Dalton’s career, his filmography, his situation. It was literally written as if Tim Lucas had written a chapter on [his] career!”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e- Quentin Tarantino, on how he wrote \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eOnce Upon A Time in Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003eEver wondered how many movies you see in a year?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003eDespite a lifetime of compulsive movie-going and movie-viewing, Video Watchdog editor Tim Lucas had never kept a list of those he had seen, much less annual ones. After a number of his Internet friends shared their lists of all the movies they had watched at the end of 2011, he was inspired to follow their example… and to take it one step further.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003eOn the first day of 2012, he launched a new blog where he would not only keep track of every movie he saw that year, but review them in depth as well. He called this blog \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003ePause. Rewind. Obsess.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003eThis book collects all 226 reviews written for \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003ePause. Rewind. Obsess. \u003c\/i\u003ewhich encompass silent movies like Louis Feuillade’s \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eLes Vampires\u003c\/i\u003e (1915-1916) as well as the latest releases from Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, the James Bond franchise, and the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse. In between, you’ll find coverage of horror, science fiction and fantasy, as well as \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003efilm noir\u003c\/i\u003e, westerns, actioners, Beatles musicals, blaxploitation, and art house titles from a variety of countries. These reviews are presented here for the first time in newly polished, definitive form.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003eThis book is the second release in a comprehensive new series from BearManor Media collecting the best of Tim Lucas’s 50+ years of film-related writings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"\u003eTim Lucas has been reviewing films professionally, with a preference for art and exploitation cinema, since the age of 15. His work has appeared in \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eSight and Sound, Film Comment, Fangoria, Gorezone\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous other books and magazines, including his own \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003einfluential Video Watchdog\u003c\/i\u003e, co-published with his wife Donna from 1990 to 2018. He is the author of the multi-award-winning Mario Bava – \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eAll the Colors of the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Video Watchdog Book\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003emonographs on Videodrome, Spirits of the Dead and Succubus\u003c\/i\u003e. An acclaimed novelist as well as the prolific commentator on approximately 200 media discs released worldwide, his works have been recognized with more than 20 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards, including their Legacy Award for Lifetime Achievement.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQ\u0026amp;A with Tim Lucas on PAUSE. REWIND. OBSESS \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTim, your new Bear Manor Media book is called PAUSE. REWIND. OBSESS. - ONE MAN’S ONE YEAR ESCAPE INTO CINEMA. it’s only been a few months since your first Bear Manor book, NOZONE, which collected all of your reviews for SIGHT AND SOUND. What gives?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt might seem too soon if the books were unrelated, but NOZONE and P.R.O. are related in a strange way. I didn’t know it at the time, but my SIGHT AND SOUND column “Nozone” would come to an end in 2012, which was the year when I decided on a whim to review every single movie I saw in that year, which I published on a blog I called “Pause. Rewind. Obsess.” And I was also editing VIDEO WATCHDOG magazine at that time, and maintaining my other blog, “Video WatchBlog.” So I was a very busy fellow. But the material collected in these two Bear Manor Media books represent the metamorphosis of one side project into another, in a manner of speaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a title, PAUSE. REWIND. OBSESS. suggests a home video experience. Did you review only the movies you saw on video?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy 2012, I was definitely seeing far more films on home video - DVD and Blu-ray - than I was seeing in theaters. But I did see a handful of films in theaters, such as HUGO, SKYFALL, and also CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER, which I saw during a trip to Los Angeles. I didn’t include or review my television viewing, shorts or cartoons, just feature films. And under that heading, they could be new or old, seen for the first time or a beloved favorite. There are some titles in the book that overlapped with titles reviewed in NOZONE; in those cases, NOZONE has the more comprehensive review. I omitted from the P.R.O. book a couple of blog entries where I essentially said, “I watched this movie, but I can’t review it here because I am obliged to review it for SIGHT AND SOUND.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd you got the idea for this blog\/eventual book because you saw people on Facebook sharing lists of all the films they’d seen in 2011?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYes, I never occurred to me to keep a list of everything I saw. I didn’t see the point of keeping such a list, but the idea of reviewing everything I saw in a year did make a kind of sense, and I committed myself to it with the same immediacy as when I decided to start “Video WatchBlog.” As soon as I conceived the title, it was something I felt I had to do and I posted my first blog entry that same day. I like the idea of committing to projects and ideals. Certainly, getting married was the best thing I ever did. Both of these books are dedicated to my late wife Donna, who passed away suddenly in October 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDid you ever regret deciding to review every film you saw in a year?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlmost immediately! It wasn’t like I had no other work to do, and I could have used that time to relax or even to write a new novel. Then again, it evolved into something more than I intended, which was to write simple, thumbnail-sized reviews. But I found I couldn’t do that; the reviews wanted to be longer, more detailed. The undertaking became a dedicated process in its own right. I had to learn something from what I was doing - about films, about the films I decided to write about, and about myself, ultimately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpeaking of the year, did the year 2012 have any particular significance for you?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot really. As I say, it was a random decision prompted by what other people had done, keeping lists of the films they saw in 2011. That said, as I’ve reflected on the matter, I was born in 1956 and 2012 was the year in which I turned 56. I find a certain serendipity in that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat were the best and worst things you learned about yourself from undertaking this project?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome people think of me as an adventurous critic, because I have a knack for bringing obscure films to a broader, more appreciative audience, but I can be very locked into those realms I find familiar. I regret that you won’t find in this book many (or in some cases, any) films from countries like China, India, Poland or Korea, and yet almost every time I decide to watch such films, they provide me with a rich experience that transcends subject matter and gives me an expanded idea of what cinema is and can be. Andrzej Wajda’s KANAL is just one case in point; I avoided seeing it for decades because it was a political war picture, but when I finally sat down and was open to the experience, I discovered it was all about camera movement, lighting and textures. It was bliss! But I am more readily attracted to films from France, Italy, and Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo the worst thing I learned about myself was that I have some stubborn limitations, however much I can successfully explore within those perimeters. The best thing I learned about myself is that I can keep a promise, even a foolish one, and make something good come from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWas there a “worst” part of this particular project?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFalling behind. There are some 226 reviews in this book, but there were 366 days in 2012, which was a leap year. This leaves 140 days unaccounted for, and under the rules of this particular game, that means there were at least 140 additional reviews that could have been written for this project. But my wife and I spent much of our personal time together watching television series, old and new, some of them multiple times; I wasn’t willing to sacrifice my time with her and I wasn’t going to write about what we watched unless it was a film. But even in the course of reviewing films for P.R.O., other work sometimes prevented me from getting to those duties in a timely manner. So I kept a list of what I’d seen and reviewed those films as soon as time and energy permitted. I can remember times when I deliberately didn’t watch other films when I had time, even when I had the desire, because I didn’t want to add to the stack of reviews waiting to be written.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou chose the films you used randomly, but did you later notice any “themes” emerging unconsciously from your selections?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes themes can surface in random viewings because I’m watching things with an eye toward a future project. For example, 2012 happened to be the year that Quentin Tarantino’s DJANGO UNCHAINED came out. I saw it theatrically, so it’s in the book. Because of that, I revisited his INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, which is also in the book. And as Quentin was promoting the new film, he approached me to interview him about his choices for the 50 Best Movie Sequels for a French entertainment magazine, which ran the interview in short form. My own magazine VIDEO WATCHDOG published our entire discussion and I later won a Rondo Award for the year’s best magazine interview. But to prepare for that interview, I had to watch films like THE SON OF MONTE CRISTO and BEVERLY HILLS COP 2, which made Quentin’s list; I watched anything he listed that I hadn’t previously seen, and all of those films I subsequently had to review - so this book is importantly allied to that popular interview. He also got me very interested in the films of Fred Williamson, which also make up a nice chunk of the text. So you could say that Quentin had a lot of direct influence over my viewing selections that year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIs this the sort of challenge you’d be interested in taking up again?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot a chance! But I’m very happy I did it, and I did it without even thinking it might become a book someday.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo what’s next for you, in terms of your film-related books?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’ve been working on a book about “Adults Only” filmmaker Joe Sarno for about seven years, which I really need to finish in the next year or so. I’ve also been collecting a file of what I think are my best published writings about horror and fantasy cinema from a 50+ year period. It’s always been my specialty and I have no single representative work on the subject, so this would be that. I also have a couple of other ideas that I’ve been turning over in my mind as possibilities, one I’ve been living with for years, and another that occurred to me just the other day. But I would also like to write more novels also want to write more fiction, so we’ll both have to wait and see what happens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BearManor Media","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46998047555756,"sku":"eub1787292157138","price":21.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":46998047588524,"sku":"gzf1787292157139","price":26.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0691\/4962\/2444\/files\/pause-rewind-obsess-one-mans-one-year-escape-into-cinema_1.jpg?v=1787292162","url":"https:\/\/www.mintmerton.com\/products\/pause-rewind-obsess-one-mans-one-year-escape-into-cinema","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}