As the New Yorker magazine has its centennial year celebration in 2025, a new Netflix documentary will look at the inner workings of the prestigious and venerable publication.
Marshall Curry, director of documentaries including “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night” and “Street Fight,” is directing, also serving as producer with Xan Parker. Executive producers are Judd Apatow, Josh Church, Helen Estabrook, Sarah Amos and Michael Bonfiglio.
The publication, considered one of the most culturally significant magazines of the past century, is granting unprecedented access to its workings, contributors and archives. The documentary, which will stream this year, follows the editors, writers and creatives behind the scenes of “one of the last print magazines of our time,” producers said in a statement.
“I’ve been a reader of the magazine for most of my life, and it’s been thrilling to get to peek behind the curtain and witness the precision, thought and almost fanatical obsession that goes into crafting their stories, cartoons,and covers,” said Curry.
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New Yorker editor David Remnick said, “To be the subject of someone else’s reporting is, to say the least, unusual and even a little unnerving, for us. We’ve let Marshall, Judd and Netflix into our offices and work lives and they will take it from there. I look forward to seeing what they make of the work we do each day and what we hope to achieve as we celebrate our 100th anniversary and, even more, forge ahead as a publication in complicated times.”
The New Yorker’s first issue was published Feb. 21, 1925. The magazine is observing its 100 years in publishing with events including a new collection of its best fiction due Feb. 28, an exhibit at the New York Public Library opening Feb. 22 and a screening series at Film Forum featuring movies based on New Yorker stories and reporting.