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  • 2020
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2020
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. The Booksellers takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment o...

Directed By: D.W. Young

  • 2020
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2020
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 39 m

The Booksellers

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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Summary Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. The Booksellers takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment o...

Directed By: D.W. Young

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Mar 4, 2020
The Booksellers is a documentary for people who treasure the sheer look and feel of books. It is for anyone who has ever spent way too much time in used and rare bookstores teetering on tall ladders or squeezing through narrow, tome-filled aisles in search of that most precious of commodities: the book you didn’t know you needed until you found it – or, to be more precise, it found you.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
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Mar 5, 2020
Charming.
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75
Mar 12, 2020
The lack of clear identification of interview subjects and amorphous shape of the film can be frustrating. A segment on the history of book-burning, for example, feels gratuitous but, for the record, everyone in the film is against it.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 27, 2020
There may be a change coming to the business of collectible books, which is a major thesis of Young’s lovely and lush if meandering, bookshelf browse of a movie. Is the sun setting on this esoteric obsession? Or is a big-city hipster-driven revival turning that around?
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 16, 2020
Do not be misled by the comic charm of this film. It’s a ghost story, brooded over by the rustling wraiths of bookstores dead and gone.
By Anthony Lane FULL REVIEW
67
Apr 17, 2020
That's the joy and frustration of The Booksellers. The overall experience is like wandering through an antiquarian book store, picking up a volume, starting to flip through in a leisurely fashion, and then having your arm jostled, losing your place, and picking up another tome.
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Jun 25, 2020
The interest of this garrulous, convivial documentary creeps up on you by degrees.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Blackletter Films
Release Date Mar 6, 2020
Duration 1 h 39 m
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Website https://www.instagram.com/booksellersdocumentary/
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