California Typewriter is a story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. The film is a meditation on creativity and technology featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough and others.... (Full plot summary below)
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California Typewriter is a story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. The film is a meditation on creativity and technology featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough and others.
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| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerThere'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. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatAn entertaining documentary about people who love typewriters. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinDoug 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. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonA winsome spell of romance and nostalgia and adorably dorky passion. This is not a portrait of people with an odd hobby: it is a hymn to mechanical beauty. |
| TimeStephanie ZacharekPeople 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. |
| Boston GlobeMark FeeneyMost of all, California Typewriter is an elegy. “The truth is, no good typewriters are going to be made again,” Hanks laments. There’s a reason that the title of the first tune on the fine musical soundtrack is “Stolen Moments.” |
| MetroActiveRichard von Busack[Director Doug] Nichol's excellent sense of place expands even to the Vince Guaraldi instrumentals on the soundtrack. |
| SFistRain JokinenA love letter to the outdated, be it typewriters, thank you notes, mom and pop repair shops, or creativity that doesn't start with turning a computer on first. |
| Counterpunch.orgLouis ProyectA fantastically entertaining movie even if you--unlike me--never had the pleasure (and frustration) of using a manual typewriter. |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanIt's perfectly understandable if your initial reaction to a documentary about typewriters is "pass," but don't write the film off so fast. There's more substance here than you'd anticipate. |
