The New Yorker Presents (2016)
Synopsis
A groundbreaking series that brings America's most award-winning magazine, The New Yorker, to the screen with documentaries, short narrative films, comedy, poetry, animation, and cartoons from the hands of acclaimed filmmakers and artists.
First Air Date: 2016-02-16
Last Air Date: 2016-04-12
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 11
Created By: Alex Gibney
Networks: Prime Video
Top Cast
- Roz Chast as Self
- Paul Giamatti as Honoré de Balzac
- Alex Gibney as Narrator
- Joel Gold as Self
- Mark Rossini as Self
- Ali Soufan as Self
- Lawrence Wright as Self
- Holland Taylor as Truman's Moher
- George Tenet as Self
- Alexander Chaplin as Tim Schwimmer
Seasons
Season 1 (2016)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Episode 1
Filmmaker Alex Gibney (Going Clear) tells how the FBI could have prevented the 9/11 attacks - if it weren't for the CIA. Le Cafe de Balzac: Paul Giamatti plays 19th-century French author Honore de Balzac, who drank 50 cups of coffee each day. Unreality Star: Patients with "The Truman Show delusion" believe their lives are being watched on TV. Cartoon by Roz Chast.
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Ep. 2: Episode 2
The Ride of Their Lives: Filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams) profiles two young people in the world's most dangerous sport - bull riding. Black Bodies in Motion and in Pain: Writer Edwidge Danticat looks at racist violence in America through art. The Death and Life of Atlantic City: Writer Nick Paumgarten on the closure of the Revel casino. Cartoons by Roz Chast and Liana Finck.
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Ep. 3: Episode 3
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Ep. 4: Episode 4
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Ep. 5: Episode 5
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Ep. 6: Episode 6
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Ep. 7: Episode 7
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Ep. 8: Episode 8
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Ep. 9: Episode 9
THE SILVER THIEF: Filmmakers Chapman Way and Maclain Way (Wild Wild Country; The Battered Bastards of Baseball) profile master thief Blane Nordahl. UP AND THEN DOWN: Writer Nick Paumgarten explains why life as we know it depends on elevators. TOM OF FINLAND: The artist called Tom of Finland changed the image of gay men forever. Is his work porn, or is it art? CARTOONS by Farley Katz and Benjamin Schwartz.
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Ep. 10: Episode 10
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Ep. 11: Episode 11
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