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A celebration of The New Yorker's first century, spotlighting movies inspired by fiction and reporting from its pages, and by the acclaimed writers who helped define its distinctive voice and style. Kicks off on the 100th anniversary of the magazine’s debut issue (February 21, 1925), with the opening night screening introduced by New Yorker editor
David Remnick. Select screenings will feature introductions by New Yorker writers and editors, including Naomi Fry, Adam Gopnik, Emily Nussbaum, Susan Orlean, Kelefa Sanneh, Susan Morrison, Michael Schulman, Rachel Syme, Calvin Trillin, Deputy Fiction Editor Cressida Leyshon, Film Critic Richard Brody, Fiction Editor Deborah Treisman, Puzzles and Games Editor Liz Maynes-Aminzade, and Cartoons Editor Emma Allen.
Films include IN COLD BLOOD, MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, THE HOURS, MY SISTER EILEEN, BURNING, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, PAL JOEY, BIGGER THAN LIFE, THE SWIMMER, THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE, CITIZEN KANE, and more.
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film and The Robert Jolin Osborne Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s
Programmed by Bruce Goldstein.
With special thanks to The New Yorker's Katherine Stirling and Nathan Burstein.