
Feature film — 2014
The 50 Year Argument (2014)
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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A high-signal pick with 18 votes.
Sikelia Productions / Magna Global Entertainment / BBC Arena / HBO Documentary Films
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Director: Martin Scorsese
On screen
Cast & crew

Michael Chabon
Himself

Norman Mailer
Himself

Joan Didion
Herself
Barbara Epstein
Herself
Elizabeth Hardwick
Herself

Michael Stuhlbarg
Narration
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