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Feature film — 2014

The 50 Year Argument (2014)

6.61h 35mDocumentary

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 as Himself

Michael Chabon

Himself

Norman Mailer as Himself

Norman Mailer

Himself

Joan Didion as Herself

Joan Didion

Herself

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Barbara Epstein

Herself

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Elizabeth Hardwick

Herself

Michael Stuhlbarg as Narration

Michael Stuhlbarg

Narration

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