
The 50 Year Argument
2014•95 min•
★6.6
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.
Cast & Crew

Michael Chabon
Himself

Norman Mailer
Himself

Joan Didion
Herself

Barbara Epstein
Herself

Elizabeth Hardwick
Herself

Michael Stuhlbarg
Narration

DirectorMartin Scorsese
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