Pick A Movie

The New Yorker Presents

Season: 1

Episode: 1

Episode 1

Air Date:16/02/2016

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.

Crew

Name: Alex Gibney

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Alex Gibney

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Roz Chast

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Paul Giamatti

Character: Honoré de Balzac

Department: Acting

Name: Alex Gibney

Character: Narrator

Department: Directing

Name: Joel Gold

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Mark Rossini

Character: Self

Department: Directing

Name: Ali Soufan

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Lawrence Wright

Character: Self

Department: Writing

Name: Holland Taylor

Character: Truman's Moher

Department: Acting

Name: George Tenet

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Alexander Chaplin

Character: Tim Schwimmer

Department: Acting

Name: George W. Bush

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Jerry Orbach

Character: Detective Lennie Brisco

Department: Acting

Name: Michael Scheuer

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Carey Lowell

Character: Jamie Ross

Department: Acting

Name: Jim Carrey

Character: Truman Burbank

Department: Acting

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Episode: 2

Episode 2

Air Date:16/02/2016

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.

Episode: 3

Episode 3

Air Date:15/03/2016

Episode: 4

Episode 4

Air Date:22/03/2016

Crew

Name: Roger Ross Williams

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Episode: 5

Episode 5

Air Date:22/03/2016

Crew

Name: Lucy Walker

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Episode: 6

Episode 6

Air Date:29/03/2016

Episode: 7

Episode 7

Air Date:29/03/2016

Episode: 8

Episode 8

Air Date:05/04/2016

Episode: 9

Episode 9

Air Date:07/03/2016

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.

Crew

Name: Chapman Way

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Jyllian Gunther

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Maclain Way

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Cornell Abruzzini

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Peter Berlin

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Dirk Dehner

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Dian Hanson

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Bruce Harvey

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Stefan Kalmár

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Farley Katz

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Lonnie Mason

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Nick Paumgarten

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Rick Pulling

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Benjamin Schwartz

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: John Waters

Character: Self

Department: Directing

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Episode: 10

Episode 10

Air Date:12/04/2016

Episode: 11

Episode 11

Air Date:12/04/2016