Best bookshop scenes on film

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Inspired by scenes that took place in Oshima's Diary of a Shinjuku Thief.

Can't think of any other ones (whether good or bad) apart from one that took place in the LRB bookshop, it was an Ian McEwan adaptation *looks up* Enduring Love (this was bad)

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago)

not sayin' there very good

dissapearing books in Eternal Sunshine
there's a bookshop in Victim (with Bogarde) but i can't recall if the "blackmailers" were running the bookshop, or only using it in some kind of communication scheme.

and it gets even vaguer. i recall a noir, where a character (Bogart??) is hiding in a bookshop in heavy rain. of course the female shop owner looks fantastic. probably with glasses.

Ludo, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago)

*they're*

Ludo, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago)

I think that's The Big Sleep isn't it? Good moment in the book as well. Something about the errata on p146 of Moby Dick (say).

'There isn't one.'
'Exactly.'

GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 19:55 (fifteen years ago)

i really need to see that one again. sometimes it seems all good noir moments are in that movie.

Ludo, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 19:56 (fifteen years ago)

xpost:
The Big Sleep, the shop clerk being Dorothy Malone.

Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago)

Ah yes The Big Sleep and Eternal Sunshine.... Knew I'd seen way more.

With the Oshima lots of the action takes place in a bookshop (and from the notes I've read it was one of the biggest bookshops at the time, looked big and thought it was just a set not an actual thing). Part of the final scene set on it involves the bookshop clerk (on her own, after it has closed) selecting and piling books on the floor as the quotations from those books are read (Genet, Henry Miller, lots of Japanese poets and the like)

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 20:15 (fifteen years ago)

The key meeting in Notting Hill was in Hugh Grant's bookshop. I also think much of the plot of You've Got Mail was about saving an independent bookshop and the film was fine, but to be honest I wasn't paying that much attention.

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago)

Funny Face
Top Secret

boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 21:15 (fifteen years ago)

Pretty sure this is the point where I wanted to be Humphrey Bogart...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqoxk3SrZRw

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago)

Happy-Go-Lucky begins with Poppy's bike being stolen in front of a bookshop

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago)

in before someone else says Before Sunset

should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 22:05 (fifteen years ago)

Alvy Singer earnestly preaching to Annie Hall in one of those classic NYC bookstores in Annie Hall.

vulva eyes (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago)

Ha, also Michael Caine and Barbara Hershey in Hannah And Her Sisters- "Page 112, it reminded me of you!"

Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 22:19 (fifteen years ago)

You've Got Mail indeed would be one of mine, possibly only because I can't think of many more. The Death in Venice part in Annie Hall too!

When Harry Met Sally - "Someone is staring at you in personal growth"...

argosgold (AndyTheScot), Friday, 25 September 2009 07:18 (fifteen years ago)

top secret seconded.

What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Friday, 25 September 2009 09:06 (fifteen years ago)

The Ninth Gate is filled with libraries, but not many bookshops. The second scene of the movie (5 minutes in) is one of the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgA0c6OLQAA

abanana, Friday, 25 September 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

a little hokey, but I still love this film (also not a bookshop...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnFv29iPACc

囧 (dyao), Monday, 14 December 2009 03:11 (fifteen years ago)

Hannah & her Sisters seconded. It was the first that came to mind. It may also be my favorite scene in the movie.

collardio gelatinous, Monday, 14 December 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago)

Does Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man count?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5574284408427118756&hl=en

Jeff LeVine, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:13 (fifteen years ago)

nine months pass...

http://coosacreek.org/mambo/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/cafe-lumiere-1.jpg

FORTIFIED STEAMED VEGETABLE BOWL (schlump), Monday, 27 September 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago)

What's that from?

buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 01:24 (fourteen years ago)


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