"Hello stranger!"
I have to say that the greeting from this bookstore is special.
A chance encounter with Kubrick is at Taikoo Li, a fashionable landmark in Shanghai.
During the visit, I felt that the temperament of the bookstore was related to movies and photography, and the eye-catching "love myth" comic continued the film story and promoted cultural creation.
The bookstore takes its name from the famous American film director Stanley Kubrick.
Kubrick Bookstore was first born in the Yau Ma Tei community in Hong Kong, and opened in 2001 next to the Broadway Film Centre in Hong Kong, in order to meet the needs of the cinema audience on the side, the bookstore provides corresponding cultural foods such as books, DVDs, records and so on in the form of a coffee shop.
Today, Kubrick's bookstore in Hong Kong has also added book distribution, concerts, lectures, poetry clubs, one-person-one-story theaters and other projects, so that various cultural creations can be maximized.
A few months ago, Kubrick settled in Taikoo Li, Qiantan, Shanghai, a bookstore specializing in film and literature books, focusing on the depth of thought of books and trying to explore the world of the human mind.
I saw a lot of original film and television in the bookstore, and there were more eye-catching labels that said "What is a movie?"
I also like this bookstore because its atmosphere follows the local "mix-and-match" of Hong Kong, that is, "the taste of Mandarin duck tea".
Witnessing the 3D portrait of Zhen Zidan in the bookstore, it seems to be telling the recipe of "Mandarin Duck Tea" - coffee + milk tea.
Other than that, I liked the spaciousness and brightness of the space. Sunlight shines through huge floor-to-ceiling windows, shining on terraced seats, opening up the view at 180 degrees, as if the Shanghai Spring is being screened on a movie screen.
Immersed in it, Allah thought, how much of the world outside the window can the fragrance of books in the window contain?
Now bookstores are becoming more and more eye-catching, and fashion has more or less drowned out the original intention of bookstores, and also exhausted the helplessness of business and the necessity of cultural and creative pluralism.
In the face of the electronic "Yue Reading" completely replacing paper reading, share Kubrick, hoping that it can survive in Shanghai.
"To evaluate a city, you have to look at how many bookstores it has." I think Shanghai has such tolerance.