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The New Yorker at 100: Documentary Explores Magazine's Legacy

The New Yorker at 100: Documentary Explores Magazine's Legacy
‘The New Yorker At 100’ Review: Entertaining If Incomplete Tour Of “The Greatest Magazine That Ever Was” – Telluride Film Festival · deadline.com

Imagine a documentary celebrating a very old and important magazine called The New Yorker!

This magazine is famous for smart writing, cartoons, and covering big ideas.

The movie, directed by Marshall Curry, looks at how The New Yorker started and all the great work it has published over 100 years.

It shows how the magazine was made and who worked there.

The documentary includes interviews with famous people who like the magazine and talks about some of its most famous articles.

The movie highlights how the magazine changed over time and what challenges it faced, like how it adapted in the digital age.

Key facts

Director
Marshall Curry
Executive Producer
Judd Apatow
Premiere
Telluride Film Festival
Release
Netflix (later in the year)
Key Figures
David Remnick, Françoise Mouly, Emma Allen
Featured Works
Articles by John Hersey, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Truman Capote

Quotes

James Baldwin

Author

“Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”
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