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Stone Reader, The

★★★★★

Director: Mark Moskowitz
Year: 2002

There are certain films that blow you away when you see them, both in story and style.  But this film was incredible just by the sheer genius of its ordinary and simple premise: if you really loved a book, you’d want to read more from the author. But what happens if the author simply vanished. Wouldn’t you want to know more about him?

And so begins the odyssey into finding the author.  But it’s also a film about finding out why popular culture embraces certain books, why some succeed and others fail, and those one-hit wonder writers who just hit a wall.  But best of all, it’s about the joys of writing and storytelling.

One of the best lines from the film sums it up, “if you could meet anyone to have a conversation about your favorite books, who would you want it to be?” And this documentary interviews all of those people as well as the publishers and reviewers.

It gives a unique commentary in how everyone’s perception of a book is tied to a moment in time of when you read it and what your interests were. Plus, how you organize them in your head and in the bookshelf.  Plus, there was something satisfying in how the director and I shared an admiration for Robbes-Grillet.

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