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The 50 Year Argument

Fri, Apr 10 / 7 pm
Sat, Apr 11 / 3 pm & 7 pm
Sun, Apr 12 / 3 pm
Directed By Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi
2014, USA, 97 min

Founded in 1963, The New York Review of Books is a sanctuary for writers and a beacon for readers, covering the world of ideas and stirring whirlwinds of debate. Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi pay tribute to the publication’s 50 year history, featuring a wide array of interviews with the magazine’s international contributors, all of whom exemplify the power of language to provoke, illuminate and effect change. For anyone who’s followed the Review’s bylines, it’s a pleasure to encounter its roster as a bevy of onscreen personalities: Colm Tóibín, Ian Buruma, Joan Didion, Darryl Pinckney, Yasmine El Rashidi, Zoë Heller, Michael Chabon, and others. In scenes observing editor Silvers at work, we witness his command over details of literature, politics, history, art, and more, as he matches topics to writers and shepherds their pieces to completion.

Reviews

...Superb archival footage...Over the decades, the New York Review of Books  became a home for persecuted dissident writers (Vaclav Havel, Andrei Sakharov) and the staging ground for heavyweight ideological bouts: Sontag vs. Leni Riefenstahl on Fascism; Edward Said vs. Bernard Lewis on Orientalism; Gore Vidal vs. just about everyone on just about everything. -Variety
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