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The 50 Year Argument

6.620141h 35mMovieDocumentary

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…

DirectorsMartin Scorsese·David Tedeschi
ProducerChad A. Verdi

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Cast · Directed by Martin Scorsese

MCMichael Chabon
Michael Chabon
Himself
NMNorman Mailer
Norman Mailer
Himself
JDJoan Didion
Joan Didion
Herself
BE
Barbara Epstein
Herself
EH
Elizabeth Hardwick
Herself
MSMichael Stuhlbarg
Michael Stuhlbarg
Narration

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