The 50 Year Argument
Jun 29 2014
•2h 35m
•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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Michael Chabon
Himself
Norman Mailer
Himself
Joan Didion
Herself
Barbara Epstein
Herself
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