The 50 Year Argument (2014)

6.6/10 • 95 min • Documentary

Overview

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.

Cast

Michael Chabon

Himself

Norman Mailer

Himself

Joan Didion

Herself

Michael Stuhlbarg

Narration

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