Available Friday, April 24 via Virtual Screening Room
Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson — their eccentricities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. Featuring interviews with Fran Lebowitz, Parker Posey, Gay Talese, Susan Benne and more, director D.W. Young’s documentary invites viewers inside their small but fascinating world of obsessives, intellects and dreamers who are quietly responsible for the survival of history as we know it.
“Eccentricity and charm abound in this documentary about the rare book world.” — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
“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.” — Owen Gleiberman, Variety
“It feels really good to be roaming those aisles of bookshelves again, even if it’s just through a screen.” — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times
directed by
D.W. Young
D.W. Young
with
Parker Posey, Fran Lebowitz, Gay Talese, Susan Benne
Parker Posey, Fran Lebowitz, Gay Talese, Susan Benne
production company
Greenwich Entertainment
Greenwich Entertainment