The 50 Year Argument

2014

95 min

6.6

Ends at

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review of Books, America’s leading journal of ideas for over 50 years. Provocative, idiosyncratic and incendiary, the film weaves rarely seen archival material, contributor interviews, excerpts from writings by such icons as James Baldwin, Gore Vidal, and Joan Didion along with original verité footage filmed in the Review’s West Village offices.

Budget

$0

Genre

Documentary

Director

David Tedeschi

Country

United States of America

Cast & Crew

Michael Chabon

Norman Mailer

Joan Didion

Barbara Epstein

Elizabeth Hardwick

Michael Stuhlbarg

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The 50 Year Argument

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review of Books, America’s leading journal of ideas for over 50 years. Provocative, idiosyncratic and incendiary, the film weaves rarely seen archival material, contributor interviews, excerpts from writings by such icons as James Baldwin, Gore Vidal, and Joan Didion along with original verité footage filmed in the Review’s West Village offices.

  • Michael Chabon

  • Norman Mailer

  • Joan Didion

  • Barbara Epstein

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