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The 50 Year Argument
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Title: The 50 Year Argument

Release Date: 29 Jun 2014

Runtime: 1h 35m

Genre: Documentary

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

Production Companies: Sikelia Productions, Magna Global Entertainment, BBC Arena, HBO Documentary Films

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.6 (18 votes)

Cast

  • Himself: Michael Chabon
  • Himself: Norman Mailer
  • Herself: Joan Didion
  • Herself: Barbara Epstein
  • Herself: Elizabeth Hardwick
  • Narration: Michael Stuhlbarg
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