5 Year Journal

The 50 Year Argument (2014)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 1721 Kbps | 1h 37mn | Audio: English AC3 384 kbps, 6 channels | Subs: None | 1.46 GiB
Genre: Documentary

The film is a "hop-scotching journey through the NYRB's history". Scorsese and Tedeschi "delve into the journal's eventful fifty-year history, from its emergence during the writer strikes and Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s through to the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Syria. … [They] aim to offer not just an overview of the Review's half-century history, but also seek to highlight some of the newsworthy events that the magazine has covered in-depth since its conception. … It's the monumental clashes of intellect that really capture the imagination." They "present a fascinating account of a publication that defies the modern culture of news reporting" but "avoid probing its political character beyond saluting a broad interest in human rights … a few dissenting voices among the cheerleaders might have added a little necessary grit." The film's title "is a reference to how the … publication has so frequently exposed stories less reported and made challenges to the mainstream during its time."