After a bit of mucking around and some housekeeping on Saturday, I set aside Sunday for doing some fun things. I had seen clips of these at the last movie I went to see and even though all the besties were busy, I thought it would be nice to support the local cinemas and booked my tickets for Sunday movies.
The Bookesellers is a documentary about the rare book trade in New York. It was interesting, a window into a dying trade and I am sure that by capturing the people who work the book fair, and run the cluttered book shops, it will be a final glimpse of a soon to be forgotten industry. I did spend a long time thinking of how all of these people collecting these books, wondering if they ever actually ever read them, or just liked owning them, and how their families must despair at the thought of having to have to clean out their shelves when they die. 3.5/5
It is rare for me to sit in a cinema and feel that I am the youngest one there. Everyone else may have been clutching their gold card, but I did enjoy this movie, and know that it will be successful in the senior cinema goers, who fill the arthouse cinemas during the day. Dave and Fern meet out in the park walking their dogs, and a simple premise as described in the title, this is the story of their 23 walks. Filled out with glimpses of their outside lives, it is sweet and charming and I like this type of realistic cinema, that had the right balance of tears and laughs and it made me want to get a dog. 4.5/5
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I think that while bookshops may vanish - their places taken by shopping on the internet (I do that for books myself, though if my town had good bookshops, I'd go to them often) - books themselves, especially the buying of second-hand books will go on. And "23 Walks" sounds like a sweet and enjoyable movie.
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