The Ten-Year Lunch

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Movie
Original title The Ten-Year Lunch
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1987
length 56 minutes
Rod
Director Aviva Slesin
script Peter Foges ,
Mary Jo Kaplan
production Aviva Slesin
cut Donna Marino
occupation

The Ten-Year Lunch (Subtitle: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table ) is a 1987 American documentary directed by Aviva Slesin about the Algonquin Round Table . The film was released on September 28, 1987. At the 1988 Academy Awards , the film received an Oscar for Best Documentary .

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The film reports on the Algonquin Round Table , a loose group of journalists , writers and actors who met regularly for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel in New York in the Roaring Twenties .

The film explores the conflicts and romances of the circle and shows how the group broke up in the late 1920s due to different literary ambitions and different social views, also as a result of the Sacco and Vanzetti case . Well-known members were Dorothy Parker , Robert Benchley , George S. Kaufman , Edna Ferber , Marc Connelly , Harold Ross and Harpo Marx .

reception

In a retrospective of Slesin at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival , The Ten-Year Lunch was named one of the best documentary films in 1988. The film is "joyful and lively" and "celebrates" the group's meetings. The members are portrayed as “young hopeful”, “bluntly” and “scandalous”.

Awards

In addition to receiving an Oscar , the film received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Individual Achievement - Information Broadcast as part of the American Masters series . Aviva Slesin also received the Lillian Gish Award at the Los Angeles Women in Film Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release Info. The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table (1987). Internet Movie Database , accessed February 13, 2015 .
  2. ^ The Ten-Year Lunch . In: The New York Times . Retrieved November 17, 2008.
  3. ^ Tony Safford, The Ten-Year Lunch: Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table. Sundance Institute, accessed February 13, 2015 : “One of the best documentaries of 1988, joyous and vivid, The Ten-Year Lunch celebrates the legendary wits who lunched regularly at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. [...] The film introduces the Round Tablers as young hopefuls, outspoken and outrageous [...] "
  4. ↑ Awards. Internet Movie Database, accessed February 13, 2015 .