New York in the Fifties
Based on the best-selling book by Dan Wakefield
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 12 minutes
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: September 4, 2018
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: First Run Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Featured: | Robert Redford, Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac, Gay Talese, David Amram, Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne, William F. Buckley, Jr., Calvin Trillin, Bruce Jay Friedman, Brock Brower, Steve Allen & James Baldwin | |
Directed by | Betsy Blankenbaker | |
Director of Photography: | Bobby Shepard, Dustin Teel & Jeff Watt |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
It doesn't present a very thorough vicarious experience of the New York scene, but it does present conversations with some of the period's most interesting people.
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Offoffoff
A likeable documentary that strives to tie up a number of cultural themes and make sense of a very disparate group of 1950s social and artistic innovators, and even a few phonies.
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Film Journal International
Rating: 3/4 --
a fascinating slice of modern history
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Q Network Film Desk
Description by OLDIES.com:
Based on the book by Dan Wakefield, the film combines stunning archival footage of New York with interviews of the icons of the day - Kerouac, Ginsberg, Baldwin, Mailer, Basie, etc. Offering modern day perspectives and reminiscences are writers, actors, and artists such as Joan Didion, Robert Redford, Nat Hentoff, Gay and Nan Talesse, John Gregory Dunne, William F. Buckley and Calvin Trillin - all part of the rich cultural and artistic scene of the time.
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 91,229
- UPC: 810162034993
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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