The Ten-Year Lunch

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 Ten-Year Lunch
Directed byAviva Slesin
Produced byAviva Slesin
Written byPeter Foges
Mary Jo Kaplan
Distributed byDirect Cinema[1]
PBS
Release date
March 1987 (1987-03)
Running time
56 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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.

In 1987, the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[2] Later, it was aired on the PBS series American Masters.

References
  1. Ebert, Roger. "Oscar and "Roger & Me"". Retrieved 2020-04-10.
  2. "NY Times: The Ten-Year Lunch". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-11-17.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.