THE BOOKSELLERS, A Look at the Rare Book World, Launches in Los Angeles on April 17 Via Virtual Cinema

Following its successful opening week in New York in early March, Greenwich Entertainment is pleased to announce that THE BOOKSELLERS, D.W. Young’s lively, behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world and the fascinating people who inhabit it, will launch in Los Angeles on Friday, April 17 as part of the distributor’s new virtual cinema initiative.

Greenwich is partnering with Los Angeles movie theaters that are currently closed because of the coronavirus outbreak so their patrons can watch THE BOOKSELLERS and support their local cinemas during this difficult time. Theaters participating in the virtual cinema initiative are the Laemmle Royal, Laemmle Monica, Laemmle Town Center 5, Laemmle Noho 7, Laemmle Glendale, and Laemmle Playhouse 7. Information and tickets available at BooksellersMovie.com

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 of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics, and dreamers.Executive produced by Parker Posey, the film features interviews with some of the most important dealers in the business, as well as prominent collectors, auctioneers, and writers such as Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, Kevin Young, and Gay Talese. Both a loving celebration of book culture and a serious exploration of the future of the book, the film also examines technology’s impact on the trade, the importance of books as physical objects, the decline of used and rare bookstores, collecting obsessions, and the relentless hunt for the next great find.

“Lovely… 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 

“A treat for anyone who appreciates the printed word… an evocative portrait of a way of life that is hopefully not completely vanishing anytime soon.”
– Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter