The 50 Year Argument

The 50 Year Argument (2014)

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.

Date of release
2014-06-07
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (18)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi

Casting

Interesting facts

The 50 Year Argument is a documentary film by Martin Scorsese and co-directed by David Tedeschi about the history and influence of the New York Review of Books, which marked its 50th anniversary in 2013. The documentary premiered in June 2014 at the Sheffield Doc/Fest and was soon screened in Oslo and Jerusalem before airing on the British Arena television series in July. It was also screened at the Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival and was seen at the New York Film Festival, in September, and at other film festivals. It first aired on HBO in September 2014 and was given other national broadcasts. It had a limited theatrical release in Toronto in 2015.

Production and release

To help celebrate and memorialize the 50th anniversary of the 1963 debut of The New York Review of Books, Silvers approached Scorsese, who is known as an avid reader of the Review, with the idea to make a documentary about the paper. Scorsese said, "I have learned so much over the years from The New York Review of Books – it's given me so much that I jumped at the chance to make this film ...

The documentary screened as a work in progress at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2014 and premiered in June 2014 at the Sheffield Doc/Fest. It was also screened in Oslo in June and at the Jerusalem Film Festival in July. The film was shown on British television on the Arena documentary series in July and at the Telluride Film Festival in August.

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