The Booksellers

Name: The Booksellers
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 6, 2020
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 71
Cast: Adina Cohen, David Bergman, Dennis M. David, Fran Lebowitz, Gay Talese

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Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: March 6, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Adina Cohen, David Bergman, Dennis M. David, Fran Lebowitz, Gay Talese, James Cummins, Jim Cummins, Justin Croft, Parker Posey, Susan Benne

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 ofAntiquarian 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 of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers.… Expand

Director: D.W. Young

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 99 min

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Peter Rainer

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. Read full review

Empire Pamela Hutchinson

Jun 29, 2020

Unputdownable documentary that evokes the thrill of reading preloved pages and reveals that a passion for collecting is not just a hoarding instinct, but a way to preserve and share culture.  Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

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? Read full review

Peter Keough

Apr 9, 2020

Will print books ultimately disappear, replaced by digital versions? The ever-entertaining and insightful Fran Lebowitz offers anecdotal evidence to the contrary. She notes that on the subway she sees many people in their 20s reading actual books. So perhaps there is hope a new generation will revive the bound medium. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Mar 4, 2020

The Booksellers is a documentary for anyone who can still look at a book and see a dream, a magic teleportation device, an object that contains the world. Read full review

Anthony Lane

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. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Jun 25, 2020

The interest of this garrulous, convivial documentary creeps up on you by degrees. Read full review

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