The 50 Year Argument
The 50 Year Argument

The 50 Year Argument

6.6(18 votes)
2014
1h 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.

Production

Sikelia Productions, Magna Global Entertainment, BBC Arena, HBO Documentary Films

Cast

Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon

Himself

Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

Himself

Joan Didion

Joan Didion

Herself

Barbara Epstein

Barbara Epstein

Herself

Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick

Herself

Michael Stuhlbarg

Michael Stuhlbarg

Narration

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