The 50 Year Argument

Name: The 50 Year Argument
Director: Martin Scorsese,David Tedeschi
Released: 2014

Martin Scorsese David Tedeschi 2014

Acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese and longtime documentary collaborator David Tedeschi ride the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the influential publication, The New York Review of Books, America’s leading journal of ideas for over 50 years. This provocative film explores the power of ideas in shaping history. The film weaves rarely seen archival footage of cultural icons, newly filmed interviews with many of the Review’s current contributors with original footage reflecting the humming, restless energy of the paper’s brilliant and charismatic editor Robert Silvers at work in the Review’s West Village offices.

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Running Time:

96 min.

Spoken Languages:

English

Directors:

Martin Scorsese David Tedeschi

Producers:

Margaret Bodde, David Tedeschi, Martin Scorsese

Cinematographers:

Lisa Rinzler

Editors:

Michael J. Palmer, Paul Marchand

Investigative Journalism

Literature

Media

Society

Press

Variety

"Martin Scorsese celebrates 50 years of The New York Review of Books in this incisive portrait of a vanguard cultural institution."

Scott Foundas
The Guardian

"A fascinating account of a publication that defies the modern culture of news reporting"

Henry Barnes
The Hollywood Reporter

"Handsomely shot contemporary interviews and well-curated retro footage, personal anecdote and frontline reportage... A documentary with such rich subject matter and such a stellar cast of cultural heavyweights, which both solicits and rewards curiosity from its audience... A warm, engaging, celebratory love letter from one New York institution to another

Stephen Dalton
The Journal of American History

"A visual valentine, a (deserved) tribute to the NYRB editor Robert B. Silvers.

Stephen J. Whitfield
REELING THE REAL

"This is a well crafted, and beautiful, greatest-hits showreel"

Arthur Thompson
FSR

"A surprisingly accessible and appealing appreciation of the NYRB. Celebratory... Intellectual... One of the best-looking and one of the least subjective nonfiction films from Scorsese"
Globe and Mail

"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

Festival Participation

Berlinale Special - 2014
Sheffield Doc/Fest - 2014
Jerusalem Film Festival - 2014
Toronto Film Festival - 2014
Telluride Film Festival - 2014
New York Film Festival - 2014

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