The 50 Year Argument

The 50 Year Argument

2014 ""
The 50 Year Argument
The 50 Year Argument

The 50 Year Argument

6.6 | 1h35m | en | Documentary

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.

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6.6 | 1h35m | en | Documentary
Synopsis

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.

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Cast

Michael Chabon , Norman Mailer , Joan Didion

Director

Martin Scorsese

Producted By

HBO Documentary Films , BBC Arena