Bookstores in Movies: the second installment

Here's the first installment.

Bookstore scene in Hannah and Her Sisters.

Flourish and Blotts of Harry Potter fame.

Jesse (Ethan Hawke) does a reading in Shakespeare and Company in Paris where Celine (Julie Delpy) is in the audience in the film Before Sunset.

 Agata (Licia Maglietta) is a middle-aged bookstore owner being wooed by a married male customer in the film Agata and the Storm (Italian with English subtitles)

Bookstore owner Kris Licas (Lou Taylor Pucci) seeks words of wisdom from reclusive writer Arlen Faber (Jeff Daniels). A back injury leads Arlen to Elizabeth (Lauren Graham, whom I loved in Gilmore Girls) a local chiropractor. All of this happens in the film, The Answer Man.

Married New Yorkers, Molly Gilmore (Meryl Streep) and Frank Raftis (Robert DeNiro) meet by chance in Rizzoli Bookstore in the film, Falling in Love.

Rizzoli is an actual store in New York. Isn't it stunning?

Helen MacFarquhar (Kate Capshaw) is a middle-aged bookseller in The Love Letter. Based on the novel by Cathleen Schine.

After their father dies, two brothers are left to take care of their father's dingy bookstore in Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself.

Enjoy!

Talk to you soon,

Angela

Bookstores in Movies

Selma Hayek who plays Carolina, the owner of a bookstore in Desperado. 

 

One of my all-time favorite movies, You've Got Mail. My family has threatened to hide/destroy my copy on more than one occasion. They claim to be sick of seeing it. How could that be? Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) owns a charming indie children's bookstore called The Shop Around the Corner. Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) is the owner of a giant, box bookstore called Fox Books.

Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) at Arthur Gwynn Geiger's rare book shop in The Big Sleep.

Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) at the Acme Bookstore in The Big Sleep.

84, Charing Cross Road is a film based on the book by Helene Hanff which is is based on her correspondence with a second hand and antiquarian booksellers, Marks and Co., over a period of 20 years. The film stars Anne Bancroft as Hanff and Anthony Hopkins Frank Doel.

Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

 Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) and William Thacker (Hugh Grant) in The Travel Bookshop that Will owns in the movie, Notting Hill.

 Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) meet for the third time in a New York City bookstore in When Harry Met Sally.

Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn) and Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) in the bookstore, Embryo Concepts in the musical, Funny Face.

Mark (Eric McCormack) and Robert (Rafer Weigel) bump into their hero, William Shatner, in a bookstore in movie, Free Enterprise.

Booklover, Bastian Bux (Barret Oliver), hides from bullies in a bookstore interrupting the grumpy bookseller, Mr. Koreander (Thomas Hill) in The NeverEnding Story. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ende.

Sam (Ewan McGregor) visits a bookstore to learn more about his patient, a suicidal college student, in the movie Stay.

You can check out the second installment here.

Enjoy!

Angela