California Typewriter (Blu-ray)

The revolution will be typewritten
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Format:  Blu-ray
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 21, 2017
  • Originally Released: 2017
  • Label: Gravitas Ventures

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 448
Rating: 4/5 -- If California Typewriter slightly overstays its welcome, as Nichol pushes past a natural end point to make the case for manual typewriters as the new vinyl... well, that seems somehow appropriate, too. Love has a way of blinding us to reality, after all. Full Review
NOW Toronto
Oct 25, 2017
California Typewriter is a nostalgic documentary that will make you think about what life was like in the days before computers, smart phones, and the internet. Full Review
Solzy at the Movies
Nov 11, 2017
Rating: 4/4 -- I enjoyed this film about typewriters so much that I feel guilty writing this review on a computer instead of a Smith Corona. Full Review
Globe and Mail
Oct 27, 2017
A love story that clacks! Full Review
Original Cin
Oct 25, 2017
Rating: 3/4 -- ... a retro-fun salute to the analog age and a thoughtful consideration of how digital technology affects our lives. Full Review
San Francisco Examiner
Sep 29, 2017
Rating: 4/5 -- The best thing is that Nichol doesn't adopt a luddite stance. He doesn't try to impart the evils of technology, at least not much. Full Review
Arizona Republic
Sep 14, 2017
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. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Aug 31, 2017

Description by OLDIES.com:

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 and three-time Grammy Award® winner and nominee 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.

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  • Sales Rank: 81,357
  • UPC: 191091471128
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