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Sep 5, 2014 · The first trailer for the documentary The 50 Year Argument puts The New York Review of Books next to Playboy and Newsweek on the nightstands of fathers everywhere.. The HBO doc from Martin ...
The 50 Year Argument, the new documentary codirected by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi, opens with a tender and hard-hitting monologue about the subjectivity of journalistic stories due to the impossibility of the human mind being able to objectively record and store memories from our lives. Because of this mental improbability, we rely on ...
Sep 1, 2014 · One of the greater pleasures of watching “The 50 Year Argument,” a new documentary about the history of the New York Review of Books, is anticipating its HBO premiere on Sept. 29th and ...
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 ...
Jun 7, 2014 · The 50 Year Argument is a slow-paced and often unforgiving film. Scorsese and Tedeschi follow a similar ethos to that of their subject matter: the reader (or viewer) will catch up with us.
Aug 29, 2014 · The film recounts a number of memorable pieces published in the paper including a piece by Gore Vidal that led to a feud with Norman Mailer, Joan Didion's questioning of the guilt of young black men accused of raping a jogger in Central Park, and many more. {#The 50 Year Argument screened at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Critic Reviews for The 50 Year Argument. A fascinating look back on the major social and political events of the second half of the 20th century and early years of the 21st ... January 23, 2015 ...
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