Global Peace Film Festival Free screening - The New Yorker at 100

THE NEW YORKER AT 100 explores this venerable magazine, its history and its current influence. The sweep of the magazine\\\\\\\'s influence over the past century is captured by award-winning director Marshall Curry who will be present at the screening for a lively conversation about the making of this film.

From the review in VARIETY: \\\\\\\"If you\\\\\\\'re a fan of The New Yorker and want a backstage tour of how the very refined sausage gets made, \\\\\\\"The New Yorker at 100\\\\\\\" draws back the curtain in an enchanting way. Here\\\\\\\'s the fateful weekly cartoon meeting, where the final 60 contenders (out of 1,000 weekly submissions) get sorted into yes, no, or maybe baskets. Here\\\\\\\'s the writer Nick Paumgarten trying to drum up a Talk of the Town piece by wandering through the East Village and questioning random New Yorkers about what\\\\\\\'s on their minds, a catch-as-catch-can method that, in its way, reflects the magazine\\\\\\\'s democratic openness. And here\\\\\\\'s David Remnick, The New Yorker\\\\\\\'s editor since 1998, doing his daily two-step of menschy straightforwardness and Machiavellian demand - a mystique that brings out the best in his writers, because they know just how tough he is in pursuit of the Platonic ideal of quality. For Remnick, The New Yorker is a mission that delights and consumes him - he describes himself as feeling like Fred Astaire when his feet hit the pavement in the morning, and he\\\\\\\'s such a compulsive scheduler that his idea of relaxation is a Sunday guitar lesson. He also describes, with cutting candor, how having a profoundly autistic daughter humanized him as a journalist.\\\\\\\"

A discussion with director Marshall Curry will follow the film.