A look at the people who remain loyal to the typewriter as a tool and muse, and a portrait of California Typewriter, a typewriter service and sales company in Berkeley that has been in business since 1949.
Release Date: August 18th, 2017
Not Yet Rated |1 hr 43 min
Plot SummaryA look at the people who remain loyal to the typewriter as a tool and muse, and a portrait of California Typewriter, a typewriter service and sales company in Berkeley that has been in business since 1949.
Cast: Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, Sam Shepard
Director: Doug Nichol
Genres: Documentary
Nichol has created a loving valentine to all the iconoclasts who resist what the rest of the world defines as progress. show more
Most 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.” show more
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. show more
