"We've been celebrating our centenary all year, and today's festivities involve "The New Yorker at 100," a new documentary that is now streaming on Netflix. Directed by Marshall Curry, the film explores how the hundredth-anniversary issue came together-following reporters, editors, cartoonists, covers editors, and fact checkers as they do their work-and what has defined each of the magazine's past ten decades. The result is a view of The New Yorker both contemporary and historical."
"At this year's New Yorker Festival, Curry and Judd Apatow (an executive producer) sat down with our staff writer Jelani Cobb to talk about how they condensed a hundred years into a ninety-minute movie. "That was definitely a challenge," Curry told Cobb. "You've got this unbelievable magazine-even just getting a tiny fraction of the current writers was impossible." The project, Curry said, "is intended to be a celebration of that hard, underappreciated work" done by journalists."
Marshall Curry directed The New Yorker at 100, a documentary now streaming on Netflix that chronicles the making of the hundredth-anniversary issue. The film follows reporters, editors, cartoonists, covers editors, and fact checkers as they assemble the issue and traces what has defined each of the magazine's past ten decades. The result presents the magazine as both contemporary and historical. The film concludes with a montage set to a previously unheard Taylor Swift cover. Curry described condensing a century into ninety minutes as a challenge and said the project aims to celebrate the hard, underappreciated work of journalists.
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