The Ten-Year Lunch
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Directed by | Aviva Slesin |
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Produced by | Aviva Slesin |
Distributed by | Direct Cinema[1] PBS |
Release date | March 1987 |
Running time | 56 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table is a 1987 American documentary film about the Algonquin Round Table, a floating group of writers and actors in the "Roaring Twenties" in New York City, which included great names such as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Edna Ferber, Marc Connelly, Harold Ross and Harpo Marx. It was produced and directed by Aviva Slesin and narrated by Heywood Hale Broun.
The title refers to how the members of the Round Table met over lunch at the Algonquin Hotel from 1919 until roughly 1929. The film shows how the group drifted apart once the 1920s ended, as Hollywood beckoned for some and as they grew older.
The film premiered on the PBS series American Masters on September 28, 1987.[2] On April 11, 1988, it won the 1987 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[3]
References[]
- ^ Ebert, Roger. "Oscar and "Roger & Me"". Retrieved 2020-04-10.
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/28/arts/tv-reviews-10-year-lunch-at-the-algonquin.html. Missing or empty
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(help) - ^ "NY Times: The Ten-Year Lunch". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 2012-10-14. Retrieved 2008-11-17.
External links[]
- The Ten-Year Lunch at IMDb
- Aviva Slesin collection of research and production materials for the Ten-year lunch: the wit and legend of the Algonquin Round Table, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of The Algonquin Round Table on Vimeo, posted by Aviva Slesin
- The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of The Algonquin Round Table at Aviva Slesin's website
- The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of The Algonquin Round Table at American Masters
- English-language films
- 1987 films
- American films
- American documentary films
- Culture of Manhattan
- Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners
- Documentary films about writers
- Works about the Roaring Twenties
- Documentary films about United States history
- Documentary films about New York City
- History of Manhattan
- Algonquin Round Table
- Historical documentary film stubs