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The 50 Year Argument
The 50 Year Argument, directed by acclaimed filmmaker
Martin Scorsese and his long-time documentary
collaborator David Tedeschi, rides the waves of literary,
political and cultural history as charted by its subject;
the influential publication The New York Review of Books,
America’s leading journal of ideas for over 50 years.
This provocative film explores the power of these ideas
in shaping history. The film weaves rarely seen archival
footage of cultural icons such as Gore Vidal, Susan
Sontag, and Norman Mailer; newly filmed interviews
with many of the Review’s current contributors
including Joan Didion, Michael Chabon, and Yasmine
El Rashidi; along with original vérité footage filmed in
the Review’s West Village offices reflecting the humming,
restless energy of a magazine that, heading into its
second half-century, still feels as vital and young as its
indefatigable founding editor, Robert Silvers; all told
through the inimitable and energetic documentary style
of Martin Scorsese.
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