California Typewriter

Name: California Typewriter
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 18, 2017
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 80
Cast: Anthony Rocco, David McCullough, Herbert Permillion, Jeremy Mayer, John Mayer

2017

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Gravitas Ventures | Release Date: August 18, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Anthony Rocco, David McCullough, Herbert Permillion, Jeremy Mayer, John Mayer, Ken Alexander, Martin Howard, Richard Polt, Sam Shepard, Silvi Alcivar, Tom Hanks

Summary: California Typewriter launches us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved technology, the typewriter, faces extinction. Delivering a thought-provoking view on the changing dynamic between humans and machines, director Doug Nichol explores the mythology attached to the classic typewriter, as cultural historians, collectors and variousCalifornia Typewriter launches us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved technology, the typewriter, faces extinction. Delivering a thought-provoking view on the changing dynamic between humans and machines, director Doug Nichol explores the mythology attached to the classic typewriter, as cultural historians, collectors and various celebrity obsessives (including Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, and Sam Shepard) celebrate the typewriter both as object and means of summoning the creative spirit. The film culminates in the movingly documented struggle of California Typewriter, one of the last standing repair shops in America dedicated to keeping the aging machines clicking.… Expand

Director: Doug Nichol

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 103 min

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Brad Wheeler

Oct 26, 2017

There's a certain nostalgia at work here, but where the film really clicks is on the subject of the creative process and as a meditation on the human-machine dynamic. Read full review

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Gary Goldstein

Aug 31, 2017

Doug Nichol’s documentary California Typewriter is a rich, thoughtful, meticulously crafted tapestry about the evolution of the beloved writing machine for purists, history buffs, collectors and others fighting to preserve or re-embrace analog life. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Aug 24, 2017

People who love typewriters--you know who you are--shouldn't tap the space bar once, let alone twice, before rushing to see Doug Nichol's agile, deeply affectionate documentary California Typewriter. But anyone who loves machines, poetry or, better yet, the poetry of machines should see it too. Read full review

Stephen Farber

Aug 17, 2017

Nichol has created a loving valentine to all the iconoclasts who resist what the rest of the world defines as progress. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Aug 17, 2017

California Typewriter is a most engaging documentary about the latest wrinkle in the Return of Analog. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Aug 18, 2017

A lively and appealing analog-nostalgia documentary. Read full review

Pat Padua

Sep 7, 2017

Although many of its subjects are endearing characters, the film’s scattered approach undermines its point about the simple endurance of an artifact. Read full review

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