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The 50 Year Argument

Documentary
6.6·2014·1h 35m

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 ...

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Cast

Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon

Himself

Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

Himself

Joan Didion

Joan Didion

Herself

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Barbara Epstein

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Elizabeth Hardwick

Herself

Michael Stuhlbarg

Michael Stuhlbarg

Narration

DIRECTORS

David Tedeschi, Martin Scorsese

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.