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A story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. A meditation on creativity and technology featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough and others.

Troubled author John Kennedy Toole's struggle to bring A Confederacy of Dunces to print.

An unsuccessful screenwriter is at the brink of a mental breakdown while working on his newest screenplay project.

Two private investigators are hired by an airline company to retrieve a stolen prototype jet. Starring Tom Selleck. Released 1979.

For the love of keys and chaos. A story of obsession, creativity, and chaos, The Typewriter brings you into the mind of Sam, a man consumed by his typewriter.

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Abed A-Salim is the Mukhtar of the Gypsy community in East Jerusalem. His family has been typing requests for visitors at the Israel Ministry of Interior Affairs for three generations.

A monkey named Gregory finishes writing a play for his master and wants credit for it, but his master forbids it.

A young typist can barely keep her eyes open while working at her boring office job. She dreams of another career... becoming a ballet dancer!

A comical take on the infinite monkey theorem.

Maya an award-winning writer, caught in the imagination of her writing. But what you imagine every time can get you killed. Welcome to the world of Maya.

This third opus will take us into the homes of some of the Adamant and Averroes & Rosa Parks’ protagonists, during the visits led by their caregivers.

The Chinese Typewriter is about education and language, and the way a society is shaped by them. Exemplifies the politically committed film that defies the strict rubric of avant-garde. Barnett seems less interested in challenging traditional form than in exploding his own occidental vision. -- Gregory Solman

A typewriter repairman is busier than ever…in the digital age. Discover the joy of a man working with his hands on vintage machines that were made to be repaired.

In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera. The first segment covers Fuller's past as a newsman where he began as a copy boy and ended as a reporter. Part two describes Fuller's experiences in World War II, in which he participated as a soldier. The last section focuses on Fuller as director. Tim Robbins interviews Samuel Fuller revealing the director's own memories and impressions. Beside the interview, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino accompany the documentary with their comments.

A purple/red figure plays around with a typewriter, until he stubs his toe with the letter T on it.

A haunted man desperately searches for his lost love through an illegal pirate radio broadcast. Punk-agit-noir.

The silence between us has grown louder than the words we used to share.

The children become so exited of the play with typing-machine and paper that they don’t notice how evening comes. In the apple-tree behind the Grandpa’s barn there is a bird-nest. We understand how everything circulates harmoniously in Nature, how evening-peace and dream arrive.

30+ interviews in 10 U.S. states with authors, collectors, journalists, professors, bloggers, students, artists, inventors and repairmen (and women) who meet up for ‘Type-In’ gatherings to both celebrate and use their decidedly lo-tech typewriters in a plugged-in world.

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.

Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou. Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it” -- the pure essence of experience.

An insurance agent and his new secretary become locked in the grip of romance and competition as they train together for a speed-typing contest.

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.

In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.

Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been in Paris supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him finish on time.

A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.

Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

In Hollywood, the lives of a successful film producer, his wife, a police detective and a surveillance agent intersect after a botched abduction.

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Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.

A young journalist buys a used typewriter and notices some text still legible on the ribbon; he reconstructs the story of a scientist who discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead.

Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.

Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Italian.

A fearful composer writes in his typewriting machine and an intimidating pianist cat plays his music during the magnificent show of Marita, the dancer.

Gopi is having a moderate but highly respected life as a Tehsildar(regional land and tax officer) but his wife wants more.

Full of determination and uncertainty, Nutmeg pursues her daydream to escape a dull reality with a Walkman and her case of few sentimental belongings.

While trying to rebuild his life after a devastating loss, a young ghost writer enters an obsessive battle against a fly infestation that seems to manifest the weight of his own guilt.

The infinite monkey theorem proposes that if given a typewriter and an infinite amount of time, a monkey hitting keys at random will almost surely type any given text. Including the complete works of William Shakespeare.