The 50 Year Argument

Directed by Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi. With Barbara Epstein, W.H. Auden, Isaiah Berlin, Stephen Jay Gould. A documentary on the history and influence of the New York Review of Books.

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The history of the New York Review of Books is incisively celebrated and distilled by co-directors Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi in “The 50 Year Argument.”

The documentary The 50 Year Argument, co-directed by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi, profiles the history of The New York Review of Books, the Big Apple newspaper that has been one of the most controversial and respected periodicals in the country during its first half-century. The filmmakers interviews numerous contributors to the newspaper including the paper's hands-on editor Bob Silvers. 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.

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese and his longtime documentary collaborator David Tedeschi, A 50 Year Argument rides 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. Confrontation and original argument are in the Review's DNA - the magazine seems as vital now as when it was run by its indefatigable founding editors, Robert Silvers and the late Barbara Epstein. Co-produced with the BBC's award-winning Arena and shaped by Scorcese's vivid filmmaking style, The Fifty Year Argument captures the power of ideas in influencing history.

Martin Scorsese's new doc tells the history of the New York Review of Books

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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 soo