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  • Robert Silvers (an elderly man) speaks to and points at the camera.
  • Black and white image of two men in suits talking.
  • Close-up on Joan Didion (an elderly woman), speaking to the camera.
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THE 50 YEAR ARGUMENT

7:00

Tuesday, December 17

(2014, Scorsese, David Tedeschi) Five decades of The New York Review of Books and its editor Robert Silvers, with interviews, archival and new, of its legendary contributors. DCP. Approx. 97 min.

Reviews

“Textured and smart… Mr. Scorsese makes the history of the magazine a capsule intellectual history of the last half-century.”
– Mike Hale, The New York Times

“Filmmakers have drawn on superb archival footage to make the likes of Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer as present in the film as more recent contributors like Michael Chabon, Zoe Heller and the playwright Colm Toibin.”
– Scott Foundas, Variety

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