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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 ...
Mark Medley, Globe and Mail
The 50 Year Argument
2014 · 1h 35m · N/A
Documentary
Directed by
Martin Scorsese
,
David Tedeschi
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The 50 Year Argument
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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.
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It has noble intentions, but seems aimed more at subscribers than viewers; it's never a good sign when a movie's most visually and dramatically compelling moment is a three-minute clip from The Dick Cavett Show.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club
Fresh
Martin Scorsese celebrates 50 years of The New York Review of Books in this incisive portrait of a vanguard cultural institution.
Scott Foundas, Variety
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