Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man (2003)
52m
Running Time
February 1, 2003Release Date
Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man (2003)
52m
Running Time
February 1, 2003Release Date
Plot.
In 1951, George Whitman opened a bookshop-commune in Paris. George, 92, still runs his "den of anarchists disguised as a bookstore," offering free, dirty beds to poor literati, cutting his hair with a candle and gluing the carpet with pancake batter. More than 40,000 poets, travelers and political activists have stayed at Shakespeare and Company, writing or stealing books, throwing parties and making soup or love while living with George's generosity and fits of anger. Illustrious guests include Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Jacques Prévert, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, James Baldwin and Richard Wright. Welcome to the makeshift utopia of the last member of the Beat Generation.
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Cast & Crew.
James Baldwin
Self
Sylvia Beach
Self
Gonzague Pichelin
Director
Benjamin Sutherland
Director
Michael Galasso
Composer
Thomas Bertay
Editor
Details.
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Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man is a 2003 documentary film directed by Benjamin Sutherland and Gonzague Pichelin. It is about George Whitman who opened a bookshop-commune in Paris in 1951 called Shakespeare and Company.